{"id":159645,"date":"2019-09-04T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T01:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thehoneycombers.com\/hong-kong\/?p=159645"},"modified":"2024-11-20T19:43:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T11:43:39","slug":"rage-by-awen-lucille-kante-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehoneycombers.com\/hong-kong\/rage-by-awen-lucille-kante-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucille Kante explains how Rage by Awen is bringing a new type of live music to the city"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes. Yes, we can definitely say that the music and culture scene in Hong Kong is getting more diverse. From jazz bars<\/a> to indie music venues<\/a>, music is fast becoming more accessible across the city. And events company Rage by Awen plans on taking things up a notch further. Having launched the first in a series of tributes to Nina Simone a few months ago, we sat down with Lucille Kante, stage name: Awen, to talk about her plans to bring a greater selection of music events to The 852.<\/p>\n

Rage by Awen: An interview with Lucille Kante<\/h2>\n

Hi, Lucille. Thanks so much for sitting down with us here at Lilya today. Start off by telling us a little bit about your background and how you ended up in Hong Kong.<\/h3>\n

Sure. So, I\u2019m half French and half Senegalese. I grew up in France, partly in Paris but mainly in the south of France, and I did study classical music for 12 years, playing the clarinet and doing a little bit of singing when I was younger. I studied law in Paris, and when I went to university I stopped the music. Six years ago, I moved to Shanghai and I\u2019ve been in Hong Kong for about four and a half years, and Hong Kong is where I found music again.<\/p>\n

I started performing here in a band, and I was in The Fiasco<\/a> at Carbone for around 14 months. The hobby became a part-time job and the part-time job has become a full-time job: Rage by Awen.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s Rage by Awen all about then?<\/h3>\n

The Hong Kong scene is quite unique as there\u2019s not much help from the government, as far as I can see. Creativity here has difficulty growing. But there are a lot of talented people here, and lots of people who are eager to create new things. So, I think I felt the need to create my own company because I want to organise events that I want to attend myself. Also, in Hong Kong it\u2019s basically always the same thing. People always go to the same venues, see the same people etc. I wanted to create something different, and I wanted to collaborate with a range of people, so it was just easier to start my own company.<\/p>\n

So, it started with the idea of creating new kinds of events, and collaborating with people. We did the first big event for Art Basel, for LACMA. And it was an amazing thing, but as much as I enjoy organising events and the creativity that comes from the story-telling behind them, I realised that I want to perform more. So, now all these events we\u2019re organising, I\u2019m trying to perform in them too.<\/p>\n

Rage by Awen is all about music, on 26 September, we\u2019re having the second Nina Simone Tribute<\/a>. It\u2019s a series of events in conjunction with Salon 10, and at the end of the performance, the guests will decide who we will pay tribute to in the next one, so I\u2019m quite excited about that.<\/p>\n

I do a lot of deep house gigs too, where I collaborate with DJs. For example, we have a gig coming up at Woobar at the end of September with a group of female performers, a harp player who plays a lot on techno, and I will be singing some of my own songs, so that\u2019s another one I\u2019m really looking forward to.<\/p>\n

Tell me about the music you write and where you find your influences.<\/h3>\n
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