At 53, MC Solaar continues to be reborn.
After being unavailable for many years for contractual reasons, his first albums benefited last year from a great reissue campaign.
This allowed the new generation to discover the work of this pioneer, who explored the links between French song and hip-hop long before it became fashionable.
Three decades before we spoke of "urban music", Claude M'Barali, a young man from Villeneuve-Saint-Georges (Val-de-Marne) placed the hits
Bouge de là
,
Caroline
or
Le Nouveau Western
top of the charts.
In 2022, the man embarked on a new adventure: the big band.
Under the musical direction of Issam Krimi, a gifted arranger and producer, Solaar has gone back to the source of his music: jazz and soul.
"Issam contacted Hubert Blanc-Francard to recover the themes of the time, which allowed us to follow the original sounds",
welcomes the artist.
After three decades of career, Solaar knew…
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