ORIGINS: Bambounou, Resident Advisor
In our latest film in collaboration with SONOS, we hear about the difficult questions over race and identity that have shaped one of Paris s brightest new stars. At the screening for this film in Paris on Wednesday evening, Bambounou understandably felt overwhelmed by having his life story told in front of his family and friends, but he also felt confused. I keep having to switch between Polish, English and French, he said. This is the story of his life. Jéremy GuindoZegiestowski grew up in Paris with a Polish mother, who raised him as a single parent, and a Malian father. With his dad not around, Jéremy knew very little about his African heritage, and when he went to Poland with his mom, he would usually be the only black kid in the town and people would stare (or worse). The sense of multiple identities, of not being one thing or the other, has defined both his life and his music. Jéremy s place as a key name in the recently resurgent Parisian scene was built on multiplicity. He s released two albums
|
|