Interview with Dancing Family Records MICHAEL DAKS INTERVIEWS TATIANA DE
Daks : So, Tatiana, you started Dancing Family Records with your brother Yohan? T. de Ricard : We started it in November 2019. Yohan and I both enjoy music, both making music and listening to it. Daks : And Yohan is a DJ as well? T. de Ricard : Yohan was doing radio at Brighton University, he had a show, and I was also making music. We had been going to a music festival in Croatia for a few years called Dimensions. It’s electronic music mostly. We were volunteering there and these two lifeguards that we befriended kept calling us “The Dancing Family” because they thought it was funny that two siblings were going to a festival together. Yohan had the idea to use that name for the record label. Daks : It’s a cool name, and it has a resonance to it. So Haroun was your first signing? T. de Ricard : We thought of course that Haroun should be on the label because he was starting to make his own music at that time. Daks : How long have you guys known each other? T. de Ricard : Since we were 10. Daks : And this was in Paris? T. de Ricard : Yes, Paris. We met at the school Messiaen, Conservatory Olivier Messiaen. We slowly became friends.
RICARD, CO-FOUNDER OF DANCING FAMILY RECORDS, MARKETING GURU IDA FEVRIER, AND THE LABEL’S FIRST SIGNING, HAROUN YAMOU.
H. Yamou : We were always being creative together! Daks : So when did you meet Ida? I. Fevrier : Haroun and I met at Primary school, and Tatiana and I did theatre together when we were 13 or 14. So, when I met Tatiana, I found that she knew Haroun who I hadn’t seen in three or four years, because we separated after primary school. Then I started hanging out with their group of friends. They always had a creative energy, so it was always nice to escape with them. Daks : And you were performing with Haroun? I saw that video! I. Fevrier : Yes! For Cartoon Network in 2008. We went to a very hippy primary school so we always had projects. I was writing a magazine. We would make short films with our dolls. And then I was signed up with a casting
agency when I was about seven or eight, and I got this casting for this show and it was like ‘bring a friend along’ to perform some Karaoke. So, I brought Haroun because we were both little divas! We wanted to strut around and dance. We went to London and shot the show. Daks : And you won! I. Fevrier : Yes! A Sony Playstation, which I sold for €70! Daks : You will have to give me the link to that video so I can put that on here too! Everyone laughs! (The video is on
Haroun and Ida’s Instagram.) Daks : But you are not French originally?
I. Fevrier : No, I am French and Swedish. My mother moved to Paris from Sweden. But I learned English through movies.
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