Quotes from Jain

Sometimes you meet people that try to explain to you your work, and how to write a song and how to sing it, and they explain that you are doing it the wrong way. And yeah, it's always super frustrating.

Since I was a child, I was yearning to learn about percussion because that's what I loved.

Cultural appropriation is a big problem, but the thing is, I didn't invent my life. I really lived in Africa.

My music would be very, very different if I haven't traveled.

Music is open-minded and has always travelled, every country takes something from another, and that's what makes the richness of music.

My music was about travelling a lot and connecting with other people, and English is the voice of travelling.

When I was little, I was listening to the Beatles, Bob Marley, Janis Joplin, and stuff. I had a big soul music culture, and not so much a French one.

I'm from the Southwest, and in the Southwest of France, you're not supposed to love Paris.

What I want to tell people is that you can mix the culture a little bit and it's not always appropriation.

I want to have Congolese influences but also influences from Dubai and Abu Dhabi and France. To mix everything up.

I always write about something that moves me.

I think it's hard when you're a woman because the music industry is way more masculine than feminine, so you have to make your own space and fight for it.

I'm someone who is quite shy, and onstage I'm quite... extrovert.

For me to have the opportunity to learn the darbuka and the tabla in Dubai, it created my own thoughts for music.

I grew up in a family where, when we listened to music everybody would dance, so for me that's a very natural thing to do.