2023-10-31 19:20:07
Published on October 31, 2023 8:20 p.m. / Modified on October 31, 2023 8:20 p.m.
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Intense look and proud appearance, his posture contrasts with the indolent atmosphere of this Tuesday in September. At 27 years old, Priscitouf The First is one of those who bravely asserts their plural identity. Those for whom redemption is born from trauma, those whose therapy is artistic creation and sharing as a healing tool. Sometimes a rapper, sometimes a dancer, the Genevan with Congolese origins navigates easily in the French-speaking musical landscape. From the Festival de la Cité to the Belleville stage at Paléo last July, she mixes the afro, lo-fi and dubstep sounds of her compositions with intense choreographed movements. She thus claims her love of God and her Africanness, found during a quest for identity carried out from London to Kinshasa.
On paper, however, nothing or almost nothing predestined Priscilla Mukundji to artistic development. Shy but studious profile, the young Priscilla and her hair on her tongue flew to London following obtaining her maturity. There she experiences a city open to the world and that of her own precariousness, sometimes spending the night in the metro at the risk of her health. From hospitalization to a divine revelation, the one who now calls herself Z MWANA NZAMBE – PRISCITOUF THE FIRST – THE LAST ZAÏRIAN has lengthened her stage name over the course of the ordeals, as others would have tattooed their skin. Now calm, the Genevan is working on the outlines of her first album, African Renaissance, planned for summer 2024, while encouraging artistic creation through the NGO Zing Empire founded with his cousins in Kinshasa. Priscilla Mukundji thus defines herself as a morello cherry – these traveling poets from Africa, custodians of oral culture and renowned for their supernatural gifts – and believes more than anything in the saving function of art to save the world. “Artists are the new prophets,” she assures.
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