Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Anaïs Sylla. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Alright, Anaïs thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. When did you first know you wanted to pursue a creative/artistic path professionally?

I knew I wanted to work in a creative field since I was a child. I studied music and I always sang. However, I dared to embark on this path late, at the age of 27 when I began to record my first compositions and I assumed this side of my life.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I’m Anaïs Sylla I’m come from France but I feel I’m come from other places, I live looking for a place and I think that music is one of the places where I found beauty and another possible identity. I study History to try to understand what is identity, my identity and where we do come from. Since I was a child, I like to sing and invent, melodies, stories, situations. My relation with music is about the people, musicians, poets, friends I meet on my way and who give life to my compositions. I have lived in Brazil for eleven years, I came to Brazil to study the colonial history and slavery. My grandfather came from Senegal, an important country about the memory of slavery. I think history is a good element to associate with my musical universe which touches on Africa and its diaspora.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

For me the best reward of being an artist is to be able to be touching by people and to touch people, move them, make them vibrate and feel together, to work with a subtler view of existence.

What can society do to ensure an environment that’s helpful to artists and creatives?

The society can support the artists by making possible places to experiment, research. In my opinion, is fundamental to return to the local, to the small, to the street to be able to really establish a dialogue between the people and the space. The artists must be able to be in contact with society, to be a seed of consciousness in relation to social reality. We need a society who mixed the spaces, rural and urban, ghetto, downtown, we need a geography more hybrids to create a new relationship between life, poetry, environment. The society need to break up with lot of cruel boundaries to support the people, we need to circulate to create, so we need a society more fluid, not superficial, but deep and alive like water, and we need places to share life without money, without productive logic, without a market vision. The technology must mingle with organic life to try to create while respecting the environment as much as possible.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://linktr.ee/anaisylla
• Instagram: @anaisylla

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Mica Wernicke, Allen Alencar, Lili Fialho