‘I had 27 dads. The responsibility of raising a kid was completely decentralized in Iran,’ Lafawndah told me when we met last month, sharing vivid memories of her childhood. ‘I had an experience that was far from the nuclear family.’ The artist also recalls eating elaborate dishes on colourful carpets, the mountain peaks that surround Tehran, and the friends and family she parted ways with when she moved back to Paris at the age of six after four years in the capital. Since then, she has put down roots in New York, Mexico City, Los Angeles and London, but focusing on Lafawndah’s peripatetic tendencies – as has been the way in much of her previous press coverage – would be doing a disservice to a global musician whose genre-defying music (Ancestor Boy, 2019) is even more difficult to pin down than she is.

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