The audiences are really different in general. Even in the same country or in the same city, from one venue to another, the audiences can be totally different.

It's a great experience just to understand that finally being well known is not the most important thing.

When you are able to make a living with your job as an artist, that means you have an audience and you have to thank this audience.

The audiences are really different in general. Even in the same country or in the same city, from one venue to another, the audiences can be totally different.

You can be a star here in Europe and not be known at all in the United States.

My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different countries like India and China. I think that would be a shame not to take advantage and do something... not unique, because I don't have this pretension.

Going back and forth between Western Arabic and African countries clearly created the various musical backgrounds I could have and obviously influenced my professional attitude, my way of approaching both music composition and singing, particularly phrasing.