, james brown and otis redding and even jimi hendrix, which james brown and otis redding and evenjimi hendrixnd chile, actually prefer? both of them. both of them, because as i said before, i was very curious. my nickname in my father's village is when—why—how. if you don't ask questions, you don't know. when the music was too far for me to understand, i would take it and go to the traditional musicians and play this and say, you tell me that all the music is the same from you play this. the funny thing is that they can jam with otis redding, james brown, all the music you bring m, james brown, all the music you bring in, they would say, just pay it. so you have this incredibly open and creative upbringing in your family, but i am also very aware that at the time, and this is true of many african nations, not just time, and this is true of many african nations, notjust benin, the country was ruled by a dictatorship. it was nominally communist. as you grow up, singing more and more, developing more professionally, by the time you are a teenager, it was becoming more politically as well sociall