How Lous and the Yakuza Approached Her Record Contract

At the age of seven, Marie-Pierra Kakoma was writing novels, poems and lyrics. “Every family party I was singing a song [or] reciting a poem that I wrote the night before,” she says. “I don’t even remember the day I decided to be a singer, because it was always so obvious.”
By her early teens, the French R&B-pop singer had started emailing any Columbia Records contact she could find, saying she loved that label in particular for its roster and rich his