Born in Abidjan in 1991 from an Italian father and an Ivorian mother, K.T spent most of her childhood in Abidjan (Ivory Coast). Rocked by African music, Gospel, and dance, she started writing poems at the age of 8. It was at her arrival in Switzerland at the age of 11, that she jumped into the hip hop culture by listening artists like The Fugees, Notorious BIG, The Wu Tang and many more … Inspired by hip-hop rhythms, she first turned to dance. It’s only a few years later that K.T tried to express her writings on rap instrumentals. Fascinated, she started as a teenager a true musical and artistic epic which will later make her go all around the world.

2012 will allow K.T to go on stage at an international improvisation Hip Hop competition called ‘End of the Weak’, where she will win the ‘Swiss Champion’ title as well as the ‘World Champion’ title in New York City later on that year on August 31st. She becomes, at the age of 21, the first and youngest woman to obtain such titles in EOW history. Upon her return home, Hip Hop fans began calling her “KT Gorique” then “Couteau-Suisse” as she wears many hats.

It is in summer 2013 that KT Gorique will agree to meet with director Pascal Tessaud for the adventure BROOKLYN, a movie about hip hop, improvisation shot in Seine Saint Denis. Like a fish in the water, she quickly gets into Coralie’s character like a second skin, a girl who leaves Switzerland to go to Paris to realize her dream. She played the lead role (Coralie aka Brooklyn), alongside rapper Rafal-Uchiwa and French actor Jalil Naciri (Taken). This film opened the doors of the prestigious Cannes Film Festival in 2014 and was rated as a favorite by ACID (Association for the Distribution of Independent Cinema). Released in September 2015, the film was a huge success. After a long journey all around the world, BROOKLYN won the price of the best foreign movie at the Hip Hop Film Festival (New-York-2017), and KT won the price of best interpretation the Milan Film Festi (2016) and the price of best actrice at the Hip Hop Film Festival (New-York-2017).

In March 2016, KT Gorique released her first album “Tentative de survie”. A 13 tracks project which is by far the most important. Prolific, yet it is her first solo album. Expected by many listeners, half of cd’s stock was sold in 3 months, and distribued in all Fnacs in Romandie. Tentative de Survie has open doors of a lot of shows around Switzerland, France, Belgium, but also Quebec, Spain, England and Senegal.

ORA, a mixtape realeased in June 2017 is the evolution of the artist. The project is a journey through 10 songs all joined together by the voice of a storyteller. By presenting this project on stage, KT realized one of her biggest dream this summer. She performed at Paleo Festival for the first time, but also in Royal Arena Festival in Orpund and Festival de la Cité in Lausanne.

The year 2017 has been closed by wining 2 awards at the Swiss Live Talents 2017: public price, and best artist in a national language.

In 2018, KT will continue touring with her team through Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy etc, and has already started working on new songs…