New York stay for Thierry Gnahoré
Rap musician Thierry Gnahoré and film and video maker Tim Dürig will live in the City of Bern's studio in New York from February to July 2017. The scholarship is endowed with CHF 15,000.
Thierry Gnahoré, 22, represents a new Bernese rap generation, according to the city's press release; under the alias Nativ, he has also become a household name outside of the Bernese rap scene. At the beginning of 2016, he won the Lyrics Award for the best free album.
His latest project "Candomblé", which was released online, was downloaded over 2000 times within 48 hours. Thierry Gnahoré describes his style as "a mixture of funk, soul, jazz and straightforward hip hop, heavily influenced by the East Coast rap of the 90s".
He wants to travel to New York "equipped with a laptop and a drum machine, develop musically, exchange ideas with local musicians, take part in jams or cyphers and find out what influence the environment has on the music".
Tim Dürig, 24 years old, acquired his know-how as a film and video maker self-taught during his training as a mediamatician. In recent years, he has concentrated his film work on collaborations with musicians, mainly from the local but also the international hip hop scene. In New York, he is planning a documentary in collaboration with Gnahoré, among other activities.
