It’s a comeback that makes noise. It must be said that Diam’s has one of the most atypical career paths. While she met with real success, the interpreter of The Dumpling – who has seen his album raw woman to be a gold record and won a Victoire de la musique – decided to leave everything. So inevitably, when the one who turned her back on recording studios and cameras in the 2010s returns with an intriguing project, attention is at its height. For his big comebackMelanie Georgiades, her real name, chose the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival to present her documentary Helloproduced with Houda Benyamina and Anne Cissé for BrutX. But how does Diam’s live today?
The artist, who suffered from depression, who was last seen publicly two years ago in the middle of Ramadan with her husband, Faouzi Tarkhani, would have decided to settle in saudi arabia in 2017. She launched several businesses there, always linked to associative motivations. Firstly there is a stationery called Mel by Mel. If Vitaa’s friend has always written since a very young age, she offers this collection of products through an associative campaign “Big Up Project”, which helps orphans in Africa. There is in particular a weekly planner, which had been printed in a limited series containing unpublished texts. There are also other products such as luggage or decorative accessories.
A travel agency and complications
Melanie Georgiades has also launched her own travel agency, Hégire Voyagesin the month of February 2020. This agency offers “offer (his) brothers and sisters the possibility of coming to do Umrah in the best conditions, in complete confidence and in complete serenity“. A project that quickly attracted the ex-rapper many criticisms, insults and threats from the Far Right. The one who is converted to Islam and veiled then had to face a heavy constraint : the Covid-19 pandemic. After the strict restrictions imposed by Saudi Arabia on pilgrims, the agency had to experience some difficult times. But on March 2, 2021, these measures were largely relaxed. Hégire Voyages offers in particular stays of luxury, made to measure, to make the pilgrimage.The business has therefore had to resume.