Tracy de Sá, the irresistible feminist rapper who advocates the "Pussy Power"
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Her feminist convictions, Tracy nourished them during her exiles (born in India, she lived in Portugal and Spain), unraveling her family history over the years (her mother has fled a forced marriage).She swallowed up tons of books during her master's master's degree, listened to the Hip Hop icons from the 90's, has brought her fears and her complexes.And shaped a sound infinitely personally.At Tracy de Sá, the woman does not apologize, she takes power, she has fun and assumes herself.Feminist, immigrant, racialized, the rapper resonates a voice that we only hear too little and surprises with In Power, a first album powerfully committed, enjoyable and raging.
Feminist porn, deconstruction, sexism in rap...We exchanged with this daring and exciting artist.
Terrafemina: How would you define yourself, Tracy?
Tracy de Sá: I would define myself as an artist, like an immigrant woman, a woman of color, multidisciplinary.My identity is marked by my migratory journey: I was born in India, I moved to Portugal when I was two and a half years old, I grew up in Spain, then I moved to France.I am a mosaic of all these cultures.
You assert your point of view of an immigrant and racialized woman.A voice that we hear little.
T.D.S.: Growing up, I listened to a lot of music, especially rap from the 90s like Missy Elliot, Salt-N-Pepa, Lauryn Hill.These music spoke of immigration, to live with a single mother, the gap between cultures, precariousness, but I did not feel represented.As if as an immigrant woman, I had to be invisible, that I was not allowed to make noise, that I had to stay in my box.It was when I discovered the rapper Mia that I finally found someone who looked like me.And that I told myself that I could also make music.
You say you have long been prey to impostor syndrome.How did you manage to emancipate yourself and gain confidence?
T.D.S.: I still work on it, I don't feel super legitimate yet for a lot of things.As I am Indian, there are quite a few things that I say or live differently and people do not always understand me.I had to grow very quickly by having immigrant, to have taken responsibilities very early, to work at 14 years- I gave English and Spanish lessons.
I started to gain confidence by realizing that there were no other women like me and that it was not normal.I wanted to be taken into account and I dared more and more.And then my music and the love of my audience allowed me to be able to defend my messages thoroughly because I saw that people believed in me.
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