Djamile Mama Gao, whose parents are Togolese and Malian, is originally from the village of Sori in Benin. After studying at the Prytanée Militaire de Bembèrèkè and training in journalism, he decided to embark on an artistic career, despite parental opposition. Since then, he has been carrying a voice of intermittence, which is built between exuberance and eloquence of silence, between fury of living and desire to move forward, between intense emotions and intimate impulses, between solar words and eclectic rhythms.
A protean artist with a poetic singularity, his approach to orality is at once griotic, experimental, alternative and resolutely musical. He thus builds a hybrid universe by combining spoken word, identity music, African resonances, current trends and global influences.