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 TraoreWe're repeating the same things all the time; there aren't many new things happening in this life.
Rokia TraoreTraveling changed my personality and gave me ability to do the music I do and to think in a certain way that everything can be possible.
Rokia TraoreMy 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.
Rokia Traore