I was always the center of attention. Particularly in the arts and music. After God and my family, music is what I like the most on the world. I decided to dedicate my life to it and I don’t see myself doing anything else. This is why I decided to go to my dream school: Berklee College of Music. Since I was little, I participated in shows and concerts at conservatories and schools, at venues and even outside on the street. My music style is particular. I never really stack to one style as my inspiration is a one time thing every time I get an idea. If I think too much of an idea then my sound is usually not the best. Most of the times, my music sounds best at the first idea I get. I al currently working on my first EP full of songs like that. In the future, I would like to be a famous award-winning artist. I want to be a producer and singer-composer. One of my dreams is to have my own record label. My label would versatile but to start I would like to focus on artists with African origins. I’m French with Congolese and Cameroonian origins and I saw all the talents my continent possesses. It is filled with diamonds of the rough that unfortunately don’t have the resources to make it big or even being seen. I wanna help people like that, who have dreams like me and make people understand that Africa is not a continent that needs help but a continent that can show leadership. I wanna do this through music because music is universal. Music is beautiful and it resonates with people. I think it’s the best tool to reach people and touch them. I’m a second year at Berklee College of Music and I plan to release 2 albums this year. One EP of 5 songs and my debut album. I also have three big other projects going on related to Africa but it’s confidential. I would like to graduate with a bachelor’s degree of Professional Music witch consist of Music Production, Songwriting and Music Business. The perfect fit for me! To conclude, my musical road doesn’t contain exceptional events yet but I believe that right now in the future that awaits me, extraordinary things gonna happen, things that are gonna help me reach my dreams and my goals. I firmly believe that.

I have 5 favorite hobbies. My top 1 is definitely singing. I sing all the time, 24/7 especially when I'm sad. Music is something that I need and it provides me a comfort that nothing can ever provide me. My second favorite hobby is playing basketball. I play this sport since I was 5 years and I have never stopped. It Is in 2nd place because even though there were tough times like the pressure and the fact that my parents wanted me to be a pro basketball player when I didn't want to, this sport brings me comfort too but it also helps me regulate my weight. I hate working out so playing basketball really helped me lose weight and be careful. I also have a bad balance, I'm a clumsy person. Therefore, playing this sport really helped me be less clumsy. My third favorite hobby is watching anime. I absolutely love Japanese animes. People always tell me that I am weird to adore it so much however it is in my top 3 for the same of the other two: it brings me extreme comfort. Also, I love the plots. So interesting. My fourth favorite hobby is actually common. I really enjoy playing video games. Playstation, Nintendo, Wii, phone games, computer games, family games, society games and etc... I like it because it's fun. Nothing more and nothing less. My last favorite hobby is sleeping. I work a lot so of course I need rest. Nevertheless, sleeping is something that I need but also something I genuinely enjoy doing. After eating, I sleep. During the weekends after finishing everything I had to do, I sleep. After my classes, I sleep. When I hang out with my friends, I sleep. I love sleeping.

The quality can be improved but I came up with that song because of the guilt I felt when I hurt someone that I loved. It based on something that really happened to me. The guy that I like moved all of sudden after what I did and there weren’t any news from him at all. I couldn’t find him anywhere because I couldn’t contact his family, he changed his phone number and I didn’t have him on Instagram or Snapchat. I was so sad that I just wrote that song on what I was feeling at the moment. The lyrics just came flooding. Right now, we are friends and in good terms. I still love him. Don’t tell him that though!

I know it is cliche but my biggest inspiration is my mother. She is what drives me. At first, I thought I was going to say music but it is in fact for my mum too that I do music. She is the base of everything. She is my biggest inspiration because I want to be like her. My mother is an incredible and amazing woman that started with nothing and succeeded at creating the lovely family that I have now. Her childhood was really bad but despite all the horrible things that happened to her, she never gave up and she worked harder than anyone else in what she was doing. How can I not admire someone like that? Moreover, I still see all the sacrifices she makes for me. She never stops. Always working hard. I am her daughter so I guess I inherited her ambitious personality. She says she wanna be my manager so I can’t put her down!

When was it? Was it yesterday? No, 2 years ago? Or maybe today? Will it be tomorrow? The truth is music plays an important supporting role for me every single day. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Not a single day passes where music is not involved seriously in my life. Of course, there are my dailies actions like listening to music while running or singing in the shower etc... Moreover, music for me is my way to express myself. I have problems communicating my real feelings. I am a real extravert personality-wise but an introvert when it start to involve myself and my feelings. Music has a supporting role for me on daily basis because without that beautiful thing, I would suffocate. It s been 2 years now that I am away from my family. I miss them, I am lonely and sad. I am worried about my future. I have a lot of anxieties. Moving to different countries is an exciting thing to do and I love it but it is tiring. Meeting new people is always beneficial and fun but my relationships with friends or lovers never last. I know my family will always be there for me but I can’t help but feel alone, by myself. I consider myself very independent however music is my only companion. This is why I need music so much. To breathe, to smile, to cry, to make people understand what I am feeling. I am so passionate about music because music is infinite. There are only 8 keys in music but you can do so many things with it. It is so fun to try and create melodies. Also, I am passionate about it because music can contains so many feelings that people can relate or identify themselves to. It is one of my goal. I want to be the type of singer-composer that can create songs that make people relate, feel they are not alone. Also, I want to make songs where people can’t help but sing along, dance, cry, smile or even scream. I want to make music that makes people react. This is why everyday I practice my voice, I try so many music styles because I want to be polyvalent. My ambition is so big that sometimes I am overwhelmed but it is worth it. My dream is music and I don’t see myself doing anything else.

I consider myself multi-cultural because of the fact that I am always moving. Moving in another place in my neighborhood, in another neighborhood, in another city, in another country is something that I am used to. Thanks to that, I can adapt easily wherever I am. I was born in France, then I went to live in Spain for 1 year, then went back to France. After that, I moved in Africa for more than 5 years in a country named Cameroon. Between those years, I moved for one year in a country named Congo. Then, I went back to live in Cameroon. After that, my family and I went back to Paris where I spent my 8th grade year and went back to Cameroon in the middle of my 9th grade year. We spent 6 months there and we went back to France. I spent my 10th grade year there and for my 11th grade year I came to America to study music and play basketball. Last year, I was in California and now I am in Florida, ready to move to Boston for college in August. From all those years I spent in those different places, people always treated me kindly. I never experienced things like racism or discrimination so I cannot lie and say that me being an immigrant is bad or not worth it. At the contrary, because I am an immigrant, I have the possibility to learn new cultures and be able to share mine. I am French so sharing my French culture is a delight. Also, my mother is Cameroonian and my father which is French lived in Congo. Therefore, I have so many cultures to learn, to understand and to share. However, the bad points is that I am involved in so many cultures that sometimes it is a burden on my relationships. For example, I love my mother but our relationship is full of fights all the time. We even needed to see a psychologist together. She told us that the reason of our fights is happening because of a clash of culture which is due to me being raised in Africa and me being raised in France. The mindset is different. In Africa, traditions leans more towards children listening to their parents no matter what, no openings for discussion when in France, negotiations are possible. It is my point of view. This was a challenge that affected my life a lot because my mother is everything and I need her to succeed in what I want to do and it is also thanks to her that I am where I am today. Fortunately, I did a lot of work and now our relationship became more peaceful and calm. It helps me looking forward the future without worrying about how my mother will act or will think. Another challenge that I had to face being an immigrant is communication. I know that I said that I can adapt easily but everywhere I go there was always this issue about my accent. Now, I have a complex. When I talk in English, sometimes people don t understand me and I have to repeat many times what I said. There were also a lot of times where people, classmates made fun of my accent. Of course, there were also those who were always saying that my accent is cute and I m always thanking them but it’s too late. The accent complex is there. I improved concerning that matter but people asking me to repeat myself is still happening a lot. For example, my biology teacher always needed to put her face in front of mine like she was going to kiss me to understand me. Moreover, she was already so close and she was always asking me to put my mask down!!! This is why I have a complex. Despite all that, it gives me the motivation to improved myself concerning those matters because for what I want to do in the future, I need people to understand me when I talk. So, I practice a lot for my dream and my future.

Music changed my life for the better. A life without music would be boring and I hate being bored. Music is life, music is love, music is hatred, music is joy, music is sadness. It is something that can contains so many feelings. It is a tool that helps me express myself for the better or for the worse. I am someone who is very talkative. I talk so much that my tongue dries a lot therefore I always drink a lot of water. However, even though I talk so much, I never say anything about my personal issues or what I am feeling. I had anger issues for 1 year. I also started seeing a psychologist to sort out all my feelings because I couldn't name them. Why was I feeling like that? Why did I like making so much dramas? I know that I am not the only one suffering in this world, so why can't I just calm down? Thanks to music I found out something. It's not that I don't want to talk about my feelings or issues, it's just that I can't. This is why music is so important to me. When I am writing songs, I am having a discussion. It feels so good to put my feelings into words and transform them into a melody that transfers my emotions. I love people and I want them to feel, I want them to understand me. It is so lonely to not be understood by anyone. Music gives me companionship. My dream is to become a famous singer, of course because I want to be rich but it is essentially because I want people to understand me and know me. Moreover, I want my family to be proud of me because not expressing myself was and still is an issue that's being going on for years. I hope that people will identify themselves in my music to help them overcome any troubles they have. One of my objectives is to write the type of songs where people who feels happy would want to listen to it or where people who are sad would also want to listen to it or even people who feel angry would listen to it. I don't expect myself to write the best songs in the whole world but it is my ambition. Music changed my life in a way where I can say anything that I want (of course there are limits as in no racism or discrimination or call for hatred). I would like my music to give confidence to people and give them the chance to understand that in this world, we are not alone, there is always someone who can understand you.

Those pictures are about me making a commitment to basketball to maybe play at the next level.

A song. A song yesterday, a song today and a song tomorrow. This is my motto. What I want to achieve the most in my life is to become a famous singer by composing my songs. For me, music is something that I want to do. However, it is much more than that. Music is something that I need. What does it mean to love something? This question was on my mind many times. I found the answer thanks to my family and music. Loving something means being able to make sacrifices for it. When I asked myself if I was able to make them for music, I realized it was one of the thing that I loved the most above everything else— except my family of course—, because the number of sacrifices that I am able to make for it is greater than the number of sacrifices I would make for anyone else— again, except my family— or anything else. Preparing myself for the future of my goal is something that I do on a daily basis. Going to school and having good grades is important of course, but one of my priority is improving my music skills for the sake of my dream. I sing and play piano everyday. Learning new songs all the time is not only helping me to be better but it is so enjoyable too. One of my biggest dream is to learn how to play all the instruments in the world. It is going to be difficult, almost impossible but I will still try. In the moment, I know how to sing, how to play piano, guitar, ukulele, tambour, djembe and the triangle. It is important to learn to new things but it is also important to enjoy what you learn. It is much more easier like that. I was born in France and raised there, lived 5 years in Africa and came to America alone to be closer to my dream. This independence that I have at the moment even though I am still young is preparing me for a future life full of hardships and responsibility. Moreover, it is preparing me to have an iron mind when facing troubles or struggling. Finally, I would like to mention the person that I have for reference for my dream career. It is Alicia Keys which is the perfect example of what I want to be in the future. A singer-composer who moves people thanks to her talent, the quality of her songs and her ability to share emotions. I am not confident that I will ever be like her and I am absolutely not trying to imitate her either, I just use her as a loving figure to understand what more can I do to reach success. I am only seventeen but I am already seventeen. Life goes fast even if sometimes I think I still have time. There is no time to waste and I am already seizing all the opportunities that are being given to me to be closer to what I want to do. What I want to achieve is being a famous singer-composer and to achieve that, I was already preparing myself since an early age.