Residing in Marrakech, Morocco, for 10 years now, Gims, the star rapper with more than 5 million records sold, could according to our information settle very soon and for several months in Doha, the capital of Qatar, in order to to perform the anthem for the 2022 World Cup (November 21-December 18).
This hypothesis begins to be evoked with insistence both in the Emirate, which was entrusted with the organization of the World Cup on December 2, 2010, and in certain authorized circles.
In April 2021, the native Congolese had, moreover, published a video where he presented the Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor.
where the opening match of the next World Cup will take place.
Complete artist, who writes, composes, sings and fills the biggest French venues, Gims had played the masters of ceremony of the final of the Coupe de la Ligue 2016 by giving a mini-concert during the warm-up of the PSG players and from Lille.
Football fan, he knows a lot of players and has already worked with Neymar and
Karim Benzema.
Nicky Jam, Jennifer Lopez, Shakira ...
In his music video “Sapés comme Jamais”, awarded as original song of the year at the Victoires de la Musique 2016, he even invited the former Lille resident Rio Mavuba met as part of his foundation for the orphans of Makala in Kinshasa. Born 35 years ago in Kinshasa, capital of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), which his parents fled when he was young, Gandhi Djuna, whose real name was refused in 2018 to obtain of French nationality and has given up asking for it a second time.
The official 2018 World Cup anthem in Russia was called “Live it up” and was performed by Nicky Jam, featuring Will Smith and Era Istrefi. The title succeeded “We are one” by Pitbull, Jennifer Lopez and Claudia Leite, in vogue at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. But neither of these two songs had met with a success comparable to “Waka Waka”, the anthem of the World Cup 2010 sung by Shakira, the companion of the Spanish international Gerard Piqué, and which had largely exceeded the circle of the football supporters.
