interview

Can   you  speak to us about your beginnings in the music?

ALASKO: - I took my first steps in the music in 1988 with the college of Cocody (Abidjan) where I imitated Eric B & Rakim. I have then to assemble several groups until NEGROMUFFIN which revealed me with the public .

Can you speak to us about your topicality?

ALASKO: - I pass the majority of my spare time in my home-studio with my musicians  for the last keys of my album .

What are your projects in the immediate future ?

ALASKO: It is to buckle the recording of my album .

How definite your music ?

ALASKO: - My music is a mixing of ragga , dancehall and reggae .

Why the ragga/dancehall ?

ALASKO: - The ragga/dancehall is a musical style which conveys the joy , gaiety . A music which allows has the man to escape so much is little dreams of this world .  I want that people forget would be only for 2 minutes  , their problems  , their differences and have fun with the sound of my music .

WHAT  IS THE PRINCIPAL SUBJECT OF YOUR SONGS ?

ALASKO: - In my songs, I generally speak about love, the joy in life, misery and the conflicts which tear the world…

DO YOU HAVE MAKE MUSICAL MEETINGS ?

ALASKO: - Yes much , I met very good musicians with whom I have make somes concerts  in Paris . I hello with passage RUFF CUT BAND and MORGAN HERITAGE, two jamaïcains groups with which I had good experience .

DO YOU HAVE A PARTICULAR MESSAGE TO MAKE PASS THROUGH YOUR SONGS?

ALASKO: it message which particularly holds me with heart addresses to all those which currently know the war , violence in particular on the African continent : let us stop all these sterile conflicts which do not carry out nowhere . Let us cultivate the love , peace and the harmony . Unite rather our forces in order to help our continent has to develop .

realized by alycia koffi (photo anna nguyen)