The modern griot from Réunion Island graduated with a master’s in international relations. Surrounded by music, she grew up listening to and playing maloya, the Reunionese traditional music passed down through her Creole ancestors. In 2010, she published her first poetry collection, Superstition Sega, and soon thereafter her second book, Kayé La Sirène (The Book of the Mermaid). Creating a new poetic vocabulary, she weaves prayer into song, using nursery rhymes and traditional Creole and French lyrics to create poetry about myth, history, ritual, spirituality and Black womanhood. Her exploration of electronic music led to her reaching the finals of the Indian Ocean Music Prize and creating her debut EP, Kalouména.
