His fans had been waiting for his return with growing impatience for five years. They will soon be rewarded, since MC Solaar will release a new album in 2022 or 2023. The latest, Geopoliticsdates back to 2017, a break of five years which is not exceptional for its faithful, since ten years had passed between this opus and the previous one. Chapter 7released in stores in 2007.
In short, you will understand, the pioneer of French rap, with his 30-year career, likes to take his time. This is not laziness but perfectionism. In order not to frustrate his admirers too much, the artist is currently touring the festivals which will end on October 26 with, as a climax, a final concert at the Philharmonic of Paris. This desire to take his time, to sometimes put his career on hold, the interpreter of Get out of here !owes it to his favorite model, singer and personality of the French, to which he wanted to return in an interview granted to the JDD : “Jean-Jacques Goldman had already retired three years ago. I had the opportunity to meet him during the Restos du Coeur era. He even came to one of my concerts. In short, I felt said: ‘If Goldman makes this decision, it must be good’. I took the opportunity to live, travel, take care of my children”said the 53-year-old singer.
It will be understood, Goldman will have been for him less a musical inspiration than a guru in spite of himself, a big brother instilling in him without even realizing it a new approach to life, in which music has its place. , but not worth sacrificing to it all the other pleasures of existence. It also gave him plenty of time to look at the world as it is and to measure the urgency of an ecological transition to fight against the climate crisis. A theme that has already inspired one of the titles of his next album The Return of Slow. “As for the state of the planet…I’ve sung it a lot already. What can I say except that the world is burning?”, he says. Words that will further fuel the impatience of his fans, happy to see that MC Solaar has lost none of his verve.
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