Legend of the battery and emblematic juror of “New Star”, Manu Katché plays with the older ones (Sting, Peter Gabriel, Jonasz, Cabrel, Youssou N’Dour, Souchon, etc.). For Yahoo, and exclusively in the “Katché face”, he wanted to meet personalities from diversity, famous or anonymous. Their stories, overwhelming, inspiring, their life paths: they engage in the most famous drummer in France.
He imposed his style, mixing personal anecdotes and sharp look at society. Waly Dia is undoubtedly a rising figure of political humor, as evidenced by the success of his tour an hour to kill. The one who made himself known to the Jamel Comedy Club or in the program of Laurent Ruquier “We have to laugh about it”, talks about the news, the family, relations in modern society. Faced with Manu Katché, this Grenoblois of Senegalese origin, agreed to evoke his relationship to interbreeding.
“This is the first time that I really wanted to hurt”
Far from seeing him as a problem during childhood, the humorist nevertheless remembers a racist attack which he was the victim in college. “Really a guy who lets me the big racist insult from the first day. He said to me: ‘You come from the depths of my ass and you eat bananas,” he told Manu Katché. The one who has always been used to being “mixed with everyone” takes this thinking. His reaction, violent, is not long in coming: there it was a desire to hurt […] I think it is even the first time that I really wanted to hurt, “recalls the one who practiced judo.
“He said to me: ‘I never touched a black of my life’”
Unsurprisingly, the college summons its mother. But in order not to worry it too much, Waly Dia chooses to make a low profile. “Put me hours of glue, warnings if you want, it’s the simplest,” said the teenager, who does not wish to involve his parents in a situation that “could hurt them”. In addition to this episode, the humorist also remembers having crossed in his city of Verdun young men who touched him saying “I never touched a black of my life”. If it is not really trauma in his eyes, Waly Dia admits that there was a before, and an after: “From now on, you know it can happen anytime […] This is an element that exists in your life and there you were surprised. Next time, it will not be necessary “.
“I do not wake up asking myself where I am melanin level”
Despite these setbacks, the humorist is far from being obsessed with his skin color: “I do not wake up while wondering where I am melanin level. In fact I don’t care […] I know how some people consider me, this is what I am fighting, this kind of differentiation etc. But I feel good, “says the one who believes he had” the chance to see lots of universes, when some have seen very little “. With humor, Waly Dia explains that his daily concerns do not sony different from those of others:” Really, I wake up in the morning. I see myself, it’s just ‘Go ahead, I have to brush my teeth’. I don’t say to myself ‘there you will start a day of Métis’. There is only when I am sent to me that I remember. “
During his first steps in professional life around 16 years old, the Grenobleois, who had “wind of all the discrimination in hiring” is armed. He then did not have the same to adapt to the level of language of his interlocutor and destabilize him by “adding words with lots of syllables” to show that he knew them. “I think it comes from judo. It is ‘to see you what you send first, and I will arrange myself with’. Finally, the greatest difficulties he will encounter will be more linked to contempt for class.
A need for recognition that dates back to his first shoe seller job
In front of Manu Katché, the humorist notably remembered the behavior of certain customers when he was a sneaker seller. “You are at their service, there are some who take it too much at the foot of the letter. There is this thing of” going to look for it, “he explains. A real electroshock for the young man who lives very badly this “kind of legitimate authority”: “I believe that this is the first time when I have started to ask myself questions about me, know what I refer and how I want others to consider me”, expresses the one who considers that his “need for recognition” began there.
Especially since inspired by the paternal example, he never left himself the right to make mistakes in the professional field: “I saw the journey of my father who arrives from a small village in Senegal, who makes the army, which will work in a printing on large machines etc, who behind, tries to set up his business … then who becomes the director of purchases in a huge European company”, details the one who quickly prohibited himself.
To his daughter, he hides nothing “of the worst through human beings”
To her 8 -year -old daughter, Waly Dia wants to teach ways to quickly locate “people who respect her or not” so as not to waste time. He also explains to her “the worst through human beings” and already speaks of politics: “I had to explain to him very early on to him since I will talk about it in my shows. I had to tell him that there are people who consider that such a person is lower, and she puts her in the air”.
Regarding religion, Waly Dia, who sees her as “a tool for controlling people”, would like to leave her daughter free of her choices, without avoiding the debate: “You have the right to do what you want as long as you feel good and that it is not the decision to please someone or to integrate yourself into something”, he used to tell him. Before warning her: “On the other hand, you will have me on my back with arguments. If Adam and Eve know good and evil, how can they find it wrong to eat an apple?. That’s explained to me”, he gives as an example, with the critical mind that we know her.
