Growing up in a very big family, working together and playing together, that is something that has been part of my life since ever I was born. It has advantages and disadvantages. It's like an older style of living where everyone works in the family business.

I grew up in the countryside with the factory here, my house 200 metres away, my grandma's house 50 metres away, in a kind of old-style Italian society where everyone works for the family business, everyone lives nearby, and the people you spend your time with are your family.

I was not very keen on joining the family business... there were 14 family members working together, and it worried me that I would not have enough individuality.

My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.

I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.

Swing dance has been a part of my life since I was born.