In this interview, Elias details his creative process, his relationship with languages and diverse music influences, as well as the complexities of being a French-Algerian in the music industry. He generously illustrates snippets from his childhood all the way to the beginning stages of his music career, leading us to his recent single Daisy Chain.

Stick to me like a smoky breath after I have had my fifth cigarette  Even if I brush my newly stained teeth  or chew mint flavoured bubblegum It is sometimes…

In fact, mothering, teaching, and nursing are just a few examples of care work that societies cannot persist without. However, just like most kinds of care work, they are gendered and feminized and thus highly undervalued and underappreciated.

Molded and carved into a shapely
Porcelain statue, to be placed on a pedestal
Gazed upon, up-on their shoulders,
Well raised, ungrazed, untouched,
Behold… Isn’t she beautiful?

My love, my hope, my faithful patriots
Are slowly dying to stay alive
Presented with only two

Undignified choices to survive:
The fisherman’s bread
Or
The sashimi of corruption

In the 19th century, when society believed that single women couldn’t be successful, the talent of every single one of these young ladies created an unbreakable bond of hope in times of despair that would then determine their life path.