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The track landed on streaming platforms on Sunday evening, as his new album Mr Morale & The Big Steppers is due out on Friday, five years after his last opus, DAMN, which won him a Pulitzer Prize in the music category. A first for a hip-hop artist and more broadly for modern popular music. Kendrick Lamar, 34, has already won fourteen Grammy Awards, the awards of the American music industry. He is considered one of the greatest rappers of all time.

For this birthday, which he celebrated on France 2 with his good friends (Dave, Zaz, Élodie Frégé, Joyce Jonathan or Bénabar, non-exhaustive list…), Mister Renard offers himself a new album. Métèque -it’s its title in homage to Georges Moustaki- revisits artists’ directories who were important to him, from Ferrat to Brassens via Montand or Reggiani.

“It was obvious. I had to do something”. When the war in Ukraine began on February 24, Sylvie Vartan was “overwhelmed” by the images of this Slavic people, like her. Having herself fled communist Bulgaria with her family in 1952, she wanted to make a gesture for the victims of this war and decided, during her last visit to Paris, to make a mini-album for the benefit of Unicef, the United Nations organization dedicated to children.

Since the phenomenal success of the song Love Nwantiti (Ah Ah Ah), released in 2019, millions of fans have taken to the chorus of the lyrics in Igbo of the Nigerian singer CKay featuring his compatriot Joeboy and the Ghanaian star Kuami Eugene.

Places should be snapped up in a few minutes. One of the most famous boy bands, which marked an entire generation in the 1990s, is back in Paris. As part of its world tour, the Backstreet Boys group announced on Tuesday that it would add three dates in Europe, including one in Paris, at the Accor Arena, on October 8.

Many personalities from the world of music and cinema have mobilized in recent months to raise funds to support Ukraine. Last week, actress Angelina Jolie, for example, was spotted in Lviv, in western Ukraine. Actor Sean Penn had also traveled to Ukraine to make a documentary on the conflict.

Since 2014, Drake has sold over 37 million albums. He is also the first artist to exceed 50 billion streams on Spotify. Drake boasts a well-functioning comprehensive catalog. He has the bargaining power to negotiate a share of the net profits with the best terms and a huge advance upfront. Very good insights for him and his fans.

Médine returns, with a new album and a tour. While the rapper will release his new album on May 13, titled “Médine France” , he revealed a surprise to his fans on Wednesday, on social networks: the artist from Le Havre will begin a tour throughout France.

The secret was well kept, but it ended up being out, due to a growing stage reputation. Somewhere near Nantes, there was a rock band, limited to two musicians, with a weird name, Ko Ko Mo, giving concerts that were restless, electric, even frenetic, to say the least. An energy finally well captured on a third album, “Need Some Mo'”, released a few weeks ago.

At the age of 8, the singer had fled with her family from Soviet Bulgaria. The images of these Slavs, forced to leave their homes or even their country, revive memories in her. Something to dedicate a record to them.

Groundbreaking musician, actor, fashion icon, and futurist Janelle Monáe was joined by literary collaborators Danny Lore and Sheree Renée Thomas for a conversation moderated by ALOK to celebrate the launch of “The Memory Librarian” at BAM’s Howard Gilman Opera House.