It’s the city of Stockholm, the middle of the 90s, and a four-year-old boy sits in front of the TV set in a living room. With a mesmerized stare only kids can possess he’s placed himself less than an inch away from the screen, vividly conducting his little arms with a surprisingly accurate precision, following every dramatic move the violinist in the state broadcasted television program makes. When spotted by his grandmother, this young classic concert enthusiast gets his musical interest taken seriously from the very start.
She puts a violin in the little boys hands.
Although one might say that the music story of Kim Cesarion, as we’ll know him by 18 years later – this Swedish newcomer that embodies the fusion of pop and r’n’b, began even earlier, way before he was born.
When his father, a Guadeloupean dancer/musician, and his mother, a Swedish-Greek instrumentalist – both with great music traditions in their families – once met in Paris, perhaps music was the only way for Kim.