I wanted to come back to the guitar after three albums and almost 10 years. I started to miss this instrument and I wanted to come back to the guitar.
Rokia TraoreThe 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.
Rokia TraoreAmerican audiences don't react in the same way as European ones to African music because, I think, Europeans listen to this music through all the festivals that exist here.
Rokia TraoreWhen you have a chance to be an artist with an audience in your lifetime, you have to say thanks to your audience. That's a great thing. That's the best thing that can happen to an artist.
Rokia Traore