“As an artist, you have to be able to help and give back to others everything you receive”

Grand Corps Malade closed his summer tour with his 8th album “Reflets” on the occasion of the 23rd edition of the Porto Latino Festival in Bastia. Meeting with an altruistic man, a committed author who has been capturing everyday life with his incisive pen for twenty years.

Grand Corps Malade is touring France with his tour that began last January in the North. A tour of around forty dates that accompanies his 8th studio album entitled Reflectionsalready a gold record. The opportunity once again for this artist to explore, halfway between poetry and rap, the subjects that are close to his heart.

A true mosaic of emotions, Reflectionsthe fruit of his collaboration with the Franco-Swiss DJ and singer Quentin Mosimann and French rapper Vincha, alternates between serious, profound social themes, such as ecology, and more festive and light ones on love and nostalgia. Hold on to dreams tells the story of parenthood, a title dedicated to his two boys. The title 2083 expressed his concern, shared by many, about global warming.

If the slam poet appreciates all the stages of his profession, from the conception of the texts, from the setting to the music to the tour, it is the stage that he loves above all. At each concert, like here with the Corsican public – the Isle of Beauty is dear to him –, he celebrates the joy of this sharing with the public. This jubilant moment allows him to share his convictions and his feelings.

“We write to convey emotions; so it comes through stories, it comes through our feelings, they are often quite personal feelings and we quickly realize that they are universal feelings,” explains Grand Corps Malade on France 3 Corse.

Behind Grand Corps Malade, who slams inequalities and injustices, there is also the citizen, the committed man, notably for the cause of women to whom he dedicated the album. Ladiescomposed entirely of duets with French-speaking singers. A way to denounce sexual harassment.

In 2020, during the Covid pandemic, the profits from its title Side effects written in an emergency were donated to two hospitals in the Paris region.

Fabien Marsaud, known as Grand Corps Malade, is also the godfather of Smile for Life, an association that helps sick children with cancer. He is the one who initiated the launch of the “Slam Trophies at School” by the Slam League of France and the Culture & Diversity Foundation. An operation that promotes speech and leadership among young girls and boys.

This sincere commitment is at the heart of his life as a simple citizen and an artist.It turns out that I have a certain notoriety, so that gives me even more responsibility. You have to get involved, you have to be able to help and give back to people everything you receive,” says Grand Corps Malade.

Other dates are planned for the start of the school year, in France and abroad. The tour will continue until the end of 2024. November 22 in Belgium, November 25 and 26 at the Zénith in Paris, November 28 at the Zenith in Lille, December 4 in Reims.

2024 is still very busy for Grand Corps Malade. In addition to his musical tour, this year will also be marked by the release in October of a film dedicated to the great Charles Aznavour with Tahar Rahim in the title role.