« I live between two geographies. I created mine thanks to culture and music, an afro-rap, a new sound which relates me to the history of my diaspora. I created it with African musicians such as Koto Brawa, but also with white musicians, Simon Chenet and Jean Baptiste Meyer Bish, who have this black culture background / in their inside. »
Author, rapper, singer, urban poet, Edgar Sekloka is a french artist with a Cameroonese and Beninese background. In 2008 he founded with Gaël Faye a band named Milk Coffee and Sugar, created in 2016 and 2017 the Chaplinesques, a series of 7 movies-jams on Chaplin works. After a first artistic residence in February 2018 at Tamanoir (a music venue in Gennevilliers), he is working on a new project, Black Music, allying music and audiovisual creation revisiting blues, sébéné, zouk and folk and inspired by Alice Walker’s novel, Purple identities.