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On a fresh spring day we interviewed, hula hoop performer, instructor, roller skater and cabaret artist, Symoné outside Craving Coffee. We talked about how she got into hooping and roller skating, her Guinness World Record, her craziest performances, and how you should always stay determined.

As well as performing with numerous groups, including The Majorettes, Starship Hoopers (part of Chivaree Circus), Gypsy Hotel, Soul Sisters, Queerlective and alongside artists including Sun Ra Arkestra and Machel Montano, Symoné has appeared in music videos, teaches regular hoop workshops and classes and is a choreographer. In case that wasn’t enough, she was also in this year’s advert for Britain’s Got Talent.

For the last three years, Symoné has lived in various warehouses in Tottenham: ‘I remember when I discovered Tottenham, it was first just the warehouse… but I instantly fell in love because I’d been missing living around creative, interesting people.’ Originally born just outside DC in Northern Virginia, her father was in the military and growing up she moved around from country to country: ‘I grew up in so many different countries and cities that I kind of just feel like a nomad.’

Performing began for Symoné when she joined The Majorettes, a hoop troupe who were part of the R

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