Jehro Life (lyrics on screen)
BIOGRAPHY Born Jérôme Cotta in Marseille, Jehro moved to London at age 20, where he used to live in an artists squat in Hammersmith, performing in the tube. He now lives in Paris and using his guitar skills he composes acoustic songs with a mixed Caribbean, reggae, folk, Latin sound. As a child Jehros imagination was fuelled by the dreams of his GreekItalianCorsican mother, and the songs of his Georges Brassensinspired singer of a father in the Panier area of In that Hammersmith artists squat he immersed himself in pop, rock and reggae, surrounded by Spanish and Jamaican musicians. Perfecting his skills as a guitarist by covering all his favorite pop standards, he broke free from his native French by lending his voice to the songs of his newfound idols he fell in love with Bob Marleys music, its roots and its spirituality, when busking to it in London s tube stations. He then moved to Paris, settling in a small hotel on the rue Marcadet in the 18th Arrondissement. A new city
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