"The thing is I'd always felt very drawn to my roots. In fact, I've always felt this real homesickness for my country and my native language, Eton. When I was growing up I made my mother speak to me in Eton all the time - that way, over the years, I haven't lost touch with the music of my mother tongue. All the time I was singing backing vocals for other artists, I'd be singing and writing material for myself too. I'd write my songs in French, English and Eton. Then one day I was going through my material and I realised that most of the stuff I'd written was in Eton. This material formed the basis for my first demo tapes which later got worked into my debut album "Tribu". Around the same period I was already getting interested in bikutsi - that's a type of music from central and southern Cameroon which nobody was playing in Paris back in those days."
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