Whoa i feel good prank8/14/2023 ![]() How dare someone turn a news broadcast into an advert for their new single, ran one argument in the French press. He insists that the first part of the interview was real enough – “I didn’t know any of the questions, except the question before I was to start singing” – but the whole thing was, in fact, a setup. “Sometimes good memories, sometimes really bad, but memories you don’t forget.” “Sometimes we loved it and sometimes it was pretty close to a nightmare, because we didn’t have a lot of money, so they weren’t all-inclusive vacations,” he says. His largely absent father was Rwandan – he was killed in the 1994 Rwandan genocide – and his Belgian mother was an inveterate traveller. He was critically acclaimed for a kaleidoscopic sound that takes in everything from Congolese soukous to knowingly cheesy Europop to the mordant chanson of his countryman Jacques Brel, an unpredictable mishmash that he thinks is rooted in his peripatetic childhood. His second album, 2013’s Racine Carrée, spent five years in the French chart: it was the best-selling album of the year twice on the trot. Its level of success was almost freakish, leading to the assumption that he was, as he puts it, “a one-hit wonder … when you have a hit people say it’s going to be the only hit in your life”.īut he wasn’t. His single Alors On Danse went to No 1 in 19 countries: in 2010, it was the most-played French-language song in the world. As the 00s turned into the 2010s, Stromae had established himself as one of the biggest Francophone artists in the world. In the French-speaking world, this was big news. ![]() A few months ago, Paul Van Haver, better known as the Belgian singer-songwriter/rapper Stromae, announced his comeback.
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