“Huit Kilos” is pronounced “whee-kee-LOW” and means “eight kilograms” (in French). This is a reference to the fact that when Huit was very young he sat in for a missing guitarist in a group whose seven members were said to have ‘seven kilograms of talent’ among them, one entire kilogram of talent in each member of the band!.
When the young new guitarist arrived to substitute he was immediately declared to have added a full additional kilogram of talent to the group, “le huitieme kilo!” — “the eighth kilo!” — and so he was quickly dubbed “Huit Kilos.”
Huit, only 11-years old at the time, did not quite understand: “What’s that?" he asked, "Huit Kilos? What does that mean??” The new name was explained to him, and he liked it, specifically approving it for continued use as his stage name right then and there. Today, only those closest to Huit Kilos ever call him by any other name.

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