La Rue Kétanou is a French music group mixing elements of reggae music, bohemian style of life, theater, poetry and humor. Its name is a deformation of La rue qui est à nous, which means The street th . .   Expand    Wikipedia

La Rue Kétanou is a French music group mixing elements of reggae music, bohemian style of life, theater, poetry and humor. Its name is a deformation of La rue qui est à nous, which means The street that's ours. The group itself is composed of musicians Mourad Musset, Olivier Leite and Florent Vintrigner, all of them coming from the Théâtre du fil in Paris. At First, La Rue Kétanou was playing in the streets of la Rochelle and the île de Ré. The show was a mix between theater and music. Their motto was C'est pas nous qui sommes à la rue, c'est la rue qui est à nous ('Kétanou'), meaning literally: We don't belong in the street, it's the street that belongs to us." and figuratively: "we are not bums, the street is ours". In French this is a play on words due to the repeated usage of the article "à", which can mean either "at", or indicate possession. For example, "je suis à la poste" means "I am at the post office," whereas "c'est à toi" means "it's yours". So an approximately good translation of this pun would be: "We don't live in the streets, the streets live us".

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