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You can be a star here in Europe and not be known at all in the United States.

Rokia Traore

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Rokia Traore
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: January 24
Composer
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Bombay
Rokia Traore
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At the beginning of the tour, I arrange the live show exactly like the album, but of course from one audience to another, from one venue to another, it can become longer.
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My father was not able to get all the vinyl he used to listen to with me. He couldn't travel as he did it because of his profession as a diplomatic career.
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I used to play guitar for myself and write lyrics and listen to different styles of music.
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I prefer simple things - monotone melodies repeating the same things all the time. Because I think life is like that.
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Going back and forth between Western Arabic and African countries clearly created the various musical backgrounds I could have and obviously influenced my professional attitude, my way of approaching both music composition and singing, particularly phrasing.
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An artist who doesn't have any audience is not an artist.
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For me, each time I'm on stage, each time I'm working on a new album, it's like a dream. I can't believe it's happening.
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There are some things around us that are not actually useful. I didn't know that before. It's very new for me to understand. That became my way of writing: I can see also the new myself.
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Of course the folk guitar is the one I play very often, but I wanted a more electric sound.
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The audiences are really different in general. Even in the same country or in the same city, from one venue to another, the audiences can be totally different.
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It's a great experience just to understand that finally being well known is not the most important thing.
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The most important thing is to be happy myself with what I am doing.
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I don't think I'm unique or that I'm trying to do something unique, but I feel it is something I would like to hear. This kind of music I would like to listen to but I can't hear very often.
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Without an audience, all your dreams will not come true at all, because you need an audience to write new songs and continue to do music.
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When you are able to make a living with your job as an artist, that means you have an audience and you have to thank this audience.
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I can introduce new parts because when you are on stage in front of a very happy audience or people who love what you are doing, you are able to do extraordinary things that you yourself didn't think you could do before.
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We're repeating the same things all the time there aren't many new things happening in this life.
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Traveling changed my personality and gave me ability to do the music I do and to think in a certain way that everything can be possible.
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I think about all these influences and musical cultures, then the opinion of the audience is of course important, but when I'm working on an album or a new project, I'm not all the time thinking about what the audience will think about it.
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I wanted to come back to the guitar after three albums and almost 10 years. I started to miss this instrument and I wanted to come back to the guitar.
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