“When you are a black girl and you make music in France, you have to fight five times harder. Because no one likes black girls,” she explained in the columns of the magazine The Fader.
She was rolling a cannabis joint during the interview. “When you are a black girl and you make music in France, you have to fight five times harder. Because no one likes black girls”declared the Franco-Congolese singer Theodora in the columns of the American musical magazine The Fader . “If I hadn’t managed to find a place for myself, you wouldn’t even see me, because we live in a racist country,” she added.
Lili Théodora Mbangayo Mujinga was born in Switzerland in 2003. Her parents fled the Congo for political reasons. She moved to Greece, Congo, Reunion before settling in mainland France. A difficult integration, she reports. “When you are a child of the diaspora in France, you go to places where everything mixes. In black clubs, there is bouyon (a Creole musical genre, editor’s note), there is Afro-Caribbean music”.
Many of his songs, such as Congolese sauce BBL, made it known to the French public. The one who calls herself «Boss Lady» declared, when she won the Female Revelation of the Year prize at the 2025 Flames: “This project is really for the children of the diaspora, for our own music, for black music. Thanks to you, to us, thanks to me. I do it for all the weird black girls, don’t worry, [cette récompense]she is for us ».