Ahamada Smis
Artist
Ahamada Smis, an artist from Marseille of Comorian origin, mixes hip-hop, slam and traditional music. After starting out in the Colored Boys collective and taking a break to train as a carpenter, he returned to music in 1998, forging his pen in support of 3ème Œil. Founder of the Colombe Records label in 2002, he enriched his musical universe with his African and Comorian roots, explored during travels in 2006.
His debut album Être (2010) reveals a blend of jazz, soul, blues and African rhythms. Origine (2013), acclaimed by the Académie Charles Cros, consecrates him with its urban poetry and Afro-Goma influences. Ahamada alternates recording creations(Afrosoul, 2016) and shows for young audiences, such as Les chants de la mer. In 2024, he presented À feu doux, a multidisciplinary show combining music, theater and cuisine.

Uli Wolters
Saxophonist
Uli Wolters is a saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. After winning the Gold Medal in jazz at the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud in Aix-en-Provence, he moved to New York to join the New School University, where he studied with Reggie Workman, Billy Harper and Joe Lovano, among others, and rubbed shoulders with Robert Glasper, Marcus Strickland and singer Bilal. Back in Europe, he performed in jazz bands with Ray Drummond and Keith Copeland, while remaining very active on the local Marseilles scene in a multitude of diverse projects, ranging from contemporary music to film-concerts and world music, notably with Nigerian singer Asa. For ten years, he was a singer-songwriter with Kabbalah, a group fusing klezmer music with contemporary sounds, with whom he performed at numerous festivals around the world. At present, he devotes most of his time to Dirty Cute, an experimental pop project. He frequently collaborates with pianist Cyril Benhamou in various formations, and also performs with Accoules Sax and Kanak poet Paul Wamo as musician, composer and arranger. He is also a member of the Méandres trio, distinguished by its dreamlike, cinematic universe.

Emmanuel Cremer
Cellist
Emmanuel Cremer, cellist and improviser, has performed on many European and American stages. He has performed with Raymond Boni, Joe McPhee, the Méandres group, Manuchello septet, Famoudou Don Moyé (Art ensemble of Chicago), Jean-Marc Montera, clarinettist Isabelle Duthoit and Barre Phillips (with the Emir ensemble). Studies in arranging and composition at the Université de Montréal led him to work for the theater (La Mezzanine, Paris), film music (13 Tzameti, Mk2), the Blue Note label with Troublemakers and the Sofia Symphony Orchestra (Express Way album, Blue Note-EMI). He was resident at the OMI International Art Center in New York in 2010.

Sarah Dambre
Actress
A Franco-Burkinabé actress, Sarah Dambré began acting in 2012 with the Crocs-En-Scène troupe in Reims. She completed her university studies at Sciences Po Strasbourg, before moving to French Guiana in 2019. In Cayenne, she attended Her-mina Duro's acting classes at the Conservatoire de la Guyane (CMDTG) and decided to make it her career. Under Hermina Duro's direction, she takes part in Tant d'îles entre elles, a happening based on author Mireille Jean-Gilles' text Le Voyage en Haïti; then she plays the role of Doupa in Kroum, le Malboug, a Guyanese adaptation of Hanokh Levin's play Kroum, l'Ectoplasme. In 2022, she took a professional training course in Bordeaux and also began acting on camera. Her acting, both on stage and screen, is nourished by the influences of her diverse cultures. In 2023, Sarah Dambré joins Ahamada Smis' creation À feu doux, in which he tackles the question of transmission and cross-fertilization by blending music, theater and culinary arts.

Wilda Philippe
Acting direction
Wilda Philippe, born in Haiti, is an actress and director trained at the École Nationale des Arts de Port-au-Prince, the Théâtre des Ateliers d'Aix-en-Provence, and at workshops in France and Belgium. Her theater credits include Sarah Kane's L'Amour de Phèdre, Dante's L'Enfer and Hanock Levin's Les Troyennes. She has also collaborated on collective creations and festivals such as Aurillac and Avignon. At the same time, she devotes herself to directing, taking part in the À feu doux project with Ahamada Smis.