Using Poetry to Go Beyond Clubbing – An Exchange with Sarah Gamrani

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Interviewers: Cécile Moroux & David Bola

Photo Credit: Hewan Aman

Can you introduce yourself?

My name is Sarah Gamrani. I'm a DJ under the name Hawa Sarita. As I told you, my background is more in music, guitar and singing. I love to sing, so I'm also a singer in an electro-acid duo called Baraka, which we launched last March with my partner, Cristofeu. That's the music side. As a DJ, I started mixing about two years ago. Great, right in the middle of a pandemic... (Laughs)

(Laughs) You picked the right time.

In fact, it was perfect to get the hang of the basics and to practice the technique, digging well, knowing where I want to go... In the end, for me, it was an awesome time, a period of reflection, of thinking about where I wanted to take my artistic project.

I'm also a poet. I write poetry. I self-published my first collection in 2019, called “Paris Furie Douce” (Paris Soft Fury). It was sort of about my experience as a woman in the urban spaces of Paris. I'm also a student in urban studies and feminist geography.

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