David Mayonga aka Roger Rekless - Where are you really from?

An evening with David Mayonga aka Roger Rekless

"Where are you really from?"

David Mayonga knows this question well. It's often not aimed at Munich or Markt Schwaben, where he grew up - but at his roots and the color of his skin. Roots that he loves. And yet it often resonates with the desire to pin him down. To categorize him. To reduce him to one aspect of his life.

But this evening shows just how complex this question actually is.

Mayonga is a musician.
Spiegel bestselling author.
Radio presenter and winner of the German Radio Award 2019.
Actor (Girl you know it's true / Almost Fly / All Heroes are Bastards).
Voice actor for Maui in Vaiana 2.
Part of the live crew of Deichkind.

Where do you find someone who goes down so many paths at the same time?
Does Rekless come from music? From literature? From movies? From the radio?
What does a person who wants to live so many forms of expression side by side need?
And why should you commit yourself to just one?

All this will be discussed in an evening about origin in all its dimensions - of course with live music: Rekless on the turntables, on the guitar or on the piano. Because it's about the whole. About everything that can be at the same time. And above all about the freedom to have more than just one answer to this question.

"Where do you really come from?" becomes a bigger question here: about artistic core, about drive, about identity. Perhaps also about why we shouldn't pigeonhole ourselves.

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Photo: Marcel Sauer