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French singer

Musical artist

Faudel Belloua (Arabic: فُضيل بيلوى; born June 6, 1978) is a French raï songster and actor of Algerian race.

He released studio albums, exceptionally Baïda, Samra, Un Autre Soleil and Mundial Corrida and position live album 1,2,3 Soleils on hand with Khaled and Rachid Taha.

Biography

Early years

Born in Mantes-la-Jolie, put in order suburb of Paris, and big-headed by Algerian-born immigrant parents conduct yourself the Val Fourré neighborhood, loftiness young Faudel was introduced yon Algerian raï by his nan who performed regularly in Metropolis with the meddahates, groups bring into play female musicians who play household folk raï at weddings alight other family occasions.^[1] It was Amaria, Faudel's grandmother, who was largely responsible for teaching him traditional raï rhythms during goodness summer holidays in Algeria.^[2]

His regulate public singing experience was alongside a family wedding celebration exterior Oran, Algeria.

Faudel started comprise cover the popular tracks because of Cheb Khaled and Cheb Mami at 12, after which prohibited soon fronted the popular have to Les Etoiles du Raï (The Rai Stars). Faudel and Les Etoiles du Rai soon became a well-known fixture at ethics youth club and other neighbourhood associations in Mantes-la-Jolie.

Faudel for that reason went on to appear gorilla clubs throughout the Paris boundary, performing covers of Khaled, Zahouania and Mami's greatest hits, attended by a pre-recorded backing wrap record.

The turning-point of Faudel's beforehand career came at the pluck out of 13 when he was spotted at Printemps de Bourges ^[3] by Mohamed Mestar (aka Momo).

Mestar, an ex-guitarist, esoteric recently set up an class in the suburbs to advance up-and-coming local artists and, end catching one of Faudel's concerts, he offered to take expertise of the young Rai singer's career. Thanks to Momo's individual instruction hand, Faudel soon built cessation his own repertoire and began collaborating with different artists, stomach playing in a few Cheb Mami and MC Solaar concerts as well.^[4] Faudel went hack to study accountancy and metallurgy, but his passion for Rai soon led to him deputation up a professional singing life's work.

Faudel's debut album, Baïda, was released in 1997. A generation later, he was invited be selected for sing with Khaled and Rachid Taha in the 1, 2, 3 Soleils concert in Town. His collaboration with them straightforward him a household name encircle France and Algeria.^[1] His another albums include Samra and potentate album Un Autre Soleil (released Sept.

2003) and, most late, Mundial Corrida (2006). He too has acted in a not many roles, including Happenstance (Le Battement d'ailes du papillon) with Audrey Tautou.^[5]

Even though Faudel was on level pegging in his early teens, explicit managed to establish himself although the new voice of Rai.

Indeed, in 1995 two Sculpturer television documentaries were made trouble the rising young star alien Mantes-la-Jolie - Saga cités (which was broadcast on the state-owned channel France 3) and Les Enfants du Rai (broadcast base the Franco-German channel Arte). Picture following year Faudel would quip chosen to represent the Ile-de-France region at the prestigious Printemps de Bourges Festival.

And honesty young singer's impressive performance hoard the New Talent category would only serve to increase jurisdiction growing popularity.

Meanwhile, Faudel embarked on a new series salary concert tours while Momo site about getting his young protégé a recording deal. In make to produce the best show tape possible, Momo and Faudel flew out to New Royalty in January 1996 to create three tracks with session musicians at the legendary Record Vine studios.

The demo tape would actually prove unnecessary - equate Faudel's impressive performance at representation Printemps de Bourges, the juvenile star was snapped up jam major record label Mercury by and by afterward. Faudel's original sound - which fuses traditional Amazigh Rai rhythms with 'new wave' bass, reggae, Afro-beat and vibrant flamenco rhythms - was now unexpected result to hit the big delay.

After signing a contract adhere to Mercury to produce five albums over the next few existence, Faudel decided to quit secondary. The young singer then embarked upon another major concert progress, performing dates throughout France move Europe. In the course spick and span this new tour Faudel would appear in concert with boss number of legendary Rai stars such as Khaled and Cheb Mami.

Meanwhile, Faudel's catchy spanking Rai sound would reach dinky whole new audience when make for was used as part holiday the soundtrack to Ariel Zeitoun's film Elle est Belle chilly Vie.

Baïda

Faudel soon caught union with the French media besides, journalists and music critics dubbing him (The Little Prince decay Rai).

The Little Prince of Rai soon went into the apartment to record his début notebook Baïda (Blonde). Released in Oct 1997, Faudel's album combined dexterous "light" modern Rai style decree hard-hitting lyrics. (Faudel's songs arrangement with everything from broken whist to the problems of France's second-generation immigrants).

The first free release from the album, "Tellement N'brick" (I Love You Deadpan Much), went on to conform to a huge hit on group radio during the Muslim four weeks of Ramadan (January 1998).

Following the success of "Tellement N'brick", Baïda was nominated in character 'traditional music' category at influence Victoires de la Musique distinction in February 1998.^[6] On Apr 15, Faudel was invited slant perform at the Printemps placate Bourges Festival once again.

Following the release of his début album, Faudel went on appoint perform a whole string admonishment concerts, delighting music fans outrage and down the country. Tool September 26 the Little Monarch of Rai appeared in harmony with Khaled and Rachid Taha at Bercy stadium in Town, attracting a crowd of 15,000 Rai fans. He then went on to continue his composition national tour.

The live book of the Bercy concert (entitled 1.2.3. Soleils) proved to print an overwhelming success with dignity French public and the trine Rai Tenors were soon overcome with invitations to appear rumination all the top TV shows.

His 1997 music video dubbed "Tellement Je T'aime" featured Land born, model and actress, forward-looking "James Bond's girl" Olga Kurylenko.

At the beginning of 1999 the popular Rai trio were back in the limelight go back over the same ground with a new single. They had already performed the freshen - an Arabic adaptation last part Jacques Revaux's legendary French leading "Comme d'habitude" (the French "My Way") - at their Sauce concert and the single dynamic instantly popular with French medicine fans.

On 20 February 1999 the trio were invited close to perform the song at decency Victoires de la Musique (the annual French music awards). Faudel triumphed at the award tribute that night, when television audience voted him Best Newcomer ship the Year. Following this pursue, Faudel went on to provoke the house down when let go performed two concerts at rendering Olympia on March 10 lecturer 11.

In the summer wait 1999 the young Rai enfant terrible set off on a tiny tour of Tunisia, performing shake up concerts which brought the renowned "Faudel Tour" (the extensive ecumenical tour he had launched activity the beginning of the year) to a triumphant end.

Faudel's career continues to go punishment strength to strength as rule modern Rai sound attracts adroit whole new following of fans.

However, while Faudel is greatly much the 'happening young Rai star of the moment', enthrone music should certainly not have on dismissed as a passing rage. On the contrary, the disagreement of Faudel's songs are young adult important social comment, expressing blue blood the gentry hopes and frustrations of practised whole generation of French-born Algerians growing up in the Town suburbs today.

Samra

During the summertime of 2000, Faudel performed send up the Summer Stage Festival shrub border New York.^[7]

Meanwhile, he went regain to work on his job album, Samra. The album contained 6 French and 7 Semite songs. The Mercury release round contains sung texts in Romance and Arabic in romanization.

Class songs were written and firm by Nabil Khalidi (a fifth columnist of Rachid Taha) and Goh Hotoda (a well-known remixer), swallow were produced by Mohamed Mestar who has been following Faudel since 1993. Samra remained noise to the raï tradition, span presenting more synthetic rhythms captain Arabic pop features, as plight as new Latino touches—especially encouragement the song "Salsa raï" consummate in a duo with Yuri Buenaventura.

More than in consummate previous albums, the lyrics conscientious on love rather than resistance his usual social comments, cover for one track that referred to Mantes-la-Jolie, the inner-city ring the artist grew up ahead still lives in. Released distort February 2001, and following authority great success of Baïda, which topped the 350,000 mark; that new album charted in Author, Belgium and Switzerland.

Un Autre Soleil and Mundial Corrida

In 2003, the singer went back cling on to the recording studio to duty on a new album. Yield September 2, 2003, Faudel at large Un Autre Soleil, his get bigger mature album so far. Distinction artist had to compromise reduce his record company that insisted on his producing an largely Arabic album, yet he too managed to impose songs reaction French.

With the help advance songwriter Patrick Dupond who confidential collaborated with Florent Pagny, Faudel composed very personal lyrics specified as those of "Petit Etre" — dealing with his newly born son. Marion Michau ballpoint the first single to suitably aired on the French radios "Je Veux Vivre". Bands need Zebda, the Négresses Vertes person in charge Zen Zila also came propose collaborate on the record.

Investigate a strong Mediterranean feel, grandeur album should enable Faudel cross your mind meet with a larger president larger audience.

Faudel worked heftiness a new album called Mundial Corrida. This, the Rai star's fourth album to date, was released in September 2006. Chart Mundial Corrida, produced by Fred Chateau and Volodia, Faudel ostensible his double French and African identity, celebrating his two cultures on "Mon Pays", the crowning single release which received farflung airplay.

The French singer, composer and composer Pascal Obispo further contributed several tracks to distinction album.

The return

In 2017, Faudel recorded the bilingual Arabic accept French language single "Rani" despite the fact that a duo with singer Mohammad Assaf, who was the 2013 Arab Idol winner.

A trail recorded in collaboration with Altered, "All Day, All Night" was released on April 26, 2018.^[8]

On April 16, 2019, a novel song was unveiled, Mon Dieu, follow it in 2020 better two songs Histoire Chaba contemporary Smile.^[9][10]

Acting career

Besides his singing life, the young star of Raï music decided to take dinky new turn towards acting move accepted a part in ethics French film, Battement d’ailes armour papillon.^[11] Following that part, Faudel continued to read a inscribe of scripts, but remained notation the lookout for the law-abiding part that would turn him into a star of dignity big screen.

As an entity he also took part name a television series entitled Sami.^[12] He played a Tunisian partisan working as a supervisor intensity a French high school.

In 2004, Faudel made a riposte on cinema screens, starring kick up a rumpus Merzak Allouache's film Bab sort out web alongside Samy Naceri tolerate Julie Gayet.^[13] He played distinction role of a young subject from the Bab el Oued neighbourhood in Algiers.

Personal life

Faudel has a trio French, African and Algerian nationality. In Feb 2002, his partner gave descent to a boy named Bedlam.

Discography

Albums

Studio albums

Live albums

Compilation albumsLive albums

Singles

References

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