Everybody does music from his culture and his experiences with his culture. There are not so many people who are interested by the music coming from different countries and different cultures and trying to make music from that, from all these experiences.
Rokia TraoreSometimes there are painters or very famous artists who start to become artists after they are dead because an audience or a public know about their art after they die.
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 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.
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