MAX ROMEO - THEATRE NATIONAL 10/2012

"That was in the nineteen nineties - I think it was 1994 - and the first thing I did was raise a small flock of goats.

ANTHONY QUE - RIC'S BOAT 10/2012

"Well, that was really at Youthman Promotion for Sugar Minott.

IMPERIAL TIGER ORCHESTRA (RAPHAËL ANKER) - ESPACE SENGHOR 10/2012

"A friend of mine had travelled to the Soudan, Egypt, Yemen and Djibouti and had brought back a plastic bag filled to the brim with cassette tapes.

ZION TRAIN (NEIL PERCH) - BRUSSELS SUMMER FESTIVAL 08/2012

"I think first and foremost you have to be a fan of music, which I was and I attended a lot of concerts as well, but the seminal moment was when I went to my very first sound system night and saw Jah Shaka play for the very first time.

ROBBIE LYN - REGGAE GEEL 08/2012

"That probably played a role, yes, although I have to say that I was more influenced by my friends and peers in the neighborhood where I grew up."

JOHN HOLT - REGGAE GEEL 08/2012

"They were organized by a man called Vere Johns (Vere Everette Johns, November 1893 - September 1966, was a Jamaican journalist, impresario, radio personality, and actor."

WINSTON FRANCIS - REGGAE GEEL 08/2012

"I went there with a band called Carlos Malcolm and his Afro-Jamaican Rhythms.

JOHNNY OSBOURNE - REGGAE GEEL 08/2012

"I already recorded a first album in 1969 for Winston Riley's Techniques label called 'Come Back Darling'.

BOB ANDY - REGGAE GEEL 08/2012

"I already sang together with (Garth, red.

ALPHEUS - REGGAE GEEL 08/2012

"No, I had no intention to become a singer whatsoever really; it was nothing more than a very fortunate accident, you might say.

REGIS GIZAVO - SFINKS 07/2012

"To be honest, it was almost by accident really.

FLAVIA COELHO - SFINKS 07/2012

"Tom Fire discovered me through my MySpace profile.

RED BARAAT - SFINKS 07/2012

"It's really from the northwestern part of India, from the state of Punjab, a region that was partitioned between India and Pakistan in 1947.

NARASIRATO (JIMMY HO'ASIMARANA) - SFINKS 07/2012

"Well, the Solomon Islands are located in what is known as the South-Pacific, close to Australia and Papua New Guinea.

JOSHUA ALO - COULEUR CAFE 07/2012

"To me, Hawaii is still the most beautiful place on earth and I've travelled quite a bit, so that's saying something.

GOGOL BORDELLO (THOMAS 'TOMMY T' GOBENA) - COULEUR CAFE 07/2012

"That's not really intentional, but we consider ourselves to be a global rock band, so we fit in at both sides of the spectrum.

ORISHAS - COULEUR CAFE 06/2012

"Amenaza was a band that I started back in 1995 and which helped to lay the foundations of Cuban rap.

BOBAN MARKOVIC - COULEUR CAFE 06/2012

"I started playing the trumpet from a very young age, I think I must have been five or six years old, and to me my trumpet was like my favorite toy.

MOKOOMBA (ABUNDANCE MUTORI) - LA PORTEUSE D'EAU 06/2012

"We all already knew each other from when we were still kids, playing together in our village.

ASHAM BAND (WIM 'RADICS' VERBRUGGEN) - AROMA 05/2012

"When I was still in my early teens, I bought the Bob Marley & The Wailers 'Kaya' album as a present for my sister, but in the end I ended up playing it more times than she ever listened to it.