"South Africa is so deeply rooted in history. You can't talk about South Africa without mentioning its history, culture, and great artists like Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela, Busi Mhlongo, etc."

"I am particularly moved because this is the very first time I am performing in South Africa"

"“Finally getting out of the camps was a great day. It felt so good to get out of the gates, and just know that you were going home…finally. Home wasn't where I left it though. Getting back, I was just shocked to see what had happened, our home being bought by a different family, different decorations in the windows; it was our house, but it wasn't anymore. It hurt not being able to return home, but moving into a new home helped me I believe. I think it helped me to bury the past a little, too, you know, move on from what had happened.""

"I never took singing lessons. I was like my daughter, singing in front of videos with a hairbrush as a microphone! Probably because I was imitating the songs I watched on TV. I thought it was great"

"I was studying fashion at La Courneuve. I wanted to be a designer, but I stopped enjoying it, so I sang"

"When I was younger, I studied pattern making and I really wanted to be a pattern maker. It takes so much patience, though, and that’s not my forte. I quit in spite of myself simply because I couldn’t. That was my closest relationship with fashion"

"At the beginning of my career, I was rather skeptical about this idea of a role model. But it is a reality: I have influence"

"If I allow, through my work and my commitments, certain women to assert themselves, then it is a source of pride! I believe that influence must be useful. Otherwise it is useless"

"Women’s emancipation. That’s my fight"

"It’s all violence against women that I fight. If I can use my music and my fame for them, I never hesitate,"

"Everyone sings in my family. But I’m the only one who dared to sing ‘for real'"