When I was little, I was listening to the Beatles, Bob Marley, Janis Joplin, and stuff. I had a big soul music… — Jain Copy Share Image
My mother is half-French, half-Malagasy, so I've been listening to African music, like Malian and Congolese music, since I was a child. — Jain Copy Share Image
I was always playing with whatever I could get under my hands, making rhythm with it, which was natural for me, because… — Jain Copy Share Image
For me to have the opportunity to learn the darbuka and the tabla in Dubai, it created my own thoughts for music. — Jain Copy Share Image
I quietly work with my computer on the tour bus, and then I wait to make my more natural rhythms when I get home. — Jain Copy Share Image
What I want to tell people is that you can mix the culture a little bit and it's not always appropriation. — Jain Copy Share Image
Sometimes people stop me on the street and they say 'when are you going to make the next 'Zanaka' and it's what I really… — Jain Copy Share Image
At 16 I was living in the Congo, and, you know, it's your teenage time. I really wanted to find a way to express… — Jain Copy Share Image
I want to have Congolese influences but also influences from Dubai and Abu Dhabi and France. To mix everything up. — Jain Copy Share Image
I realised that I really liked to be on stage, and that I wanted to pursue it. — Jain Copy Share Image
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… — Jain Copy Share Image
I just write about what makes me sad, and then when I write, I hear myself. It's like therapy, where I write something sad… — Jain Copy Share Image
When I was little, I was listening to the Beatles, Bob Marley, Janis Joplin, and stuff. I had a big soul music culture, and… — Jain Copy Share Image
