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Licorice instead Bubblegum: The electropop of Adiam is more bitter than sweet
"Of course I believe no, I'm Swedish", the born in 1982 in Uppsala ADIAM DYMOTT complained. "Therefore, I have always been a long answer ready for the event that somebody asks me about it." But your family history is also somewhat unusual: 1976 fled Adiams parents from the shaken by civil war and independence struggles Eritrea - how many refugees of the North-East African country they came first to Italy and then to Sweden, where Adiams father found a job as a used car dealer and her mother was trained as a nurse. "For a long time they were playing with the idea of returning," says Adiam. "Then no more."
Instead, trying to educate them and her three sisters as Swedish as possible their parents. "In winter we drove like any other for skiing. We were the only black family on the slopes. Not always easy for us children! On the other hand we wore at Christmas and on special holidays traditional Eritrean clothing and ate Eritrean dishes. Today I am grateful to my parents for these sometimes rather confusing approach. They wanted to keep all the doors. "
AFTER FLEEING
The genre- and transnational music collection of her father Adiam owes her early interest in music. "I spent hours with the cassette, which had partly still brought my father from Eritrea. Among the headphones, I found a little peace, my sisters made me any reason alone. ...
