In his new album released Friday, the former singer Christine and The Queens has become Rahim Redcar. The artist delivers an hour of music, written, recorded, and mixed by himself.
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Permanent reinvention. Singer Rahim Redcar, formerly known as Christine and The Queens, released his new album on Friday September 27, Hopecore, on which he took care of everything. An album that marries electronica, dance and soul, a perfect example of how music follows the quest for identity of a truly unique artist.
In 2015, he is a new, triumphant face on the French scene. At the time, her stage name was Christine and The Queens, her first album was titled Human warmth, and the artist triumphed at the Victoires de la Musique: four trophies in two editions.
With a unique sound and voice, but also a total approach to his art, with dance as a central element, the artist already reinvents himself with each performance. His second album Chris, in 2018, released his new alias.
Since then, Chris has lost a loved one, his mother, causing a total transformation of his music and his creative approach. The texts become more spiritual, religious, the artist is renamed Redcar, then Rahim Redcar and is now gendered masculine. We see him singing for the Paralympic Games.
And with as much success abroad as ever, the projects follow one another. Friday, announced at the last minute, therefore appears Hopecore. Eight pieces for almost an hour of music, written, recorded, mixed by the artist himself. Between dance, ambient and soul hidden in the background, the music is surprisingly captivating, free, inspired, sung in English or French.
We can feel lost in our multiple changes of identity, and also consider that the essential thing is not there. With Christine and The Queens or Rahim C Redcar, the artistic journey remains fascinating. And to present this new album, no big stages but a tour of legendary clubs, like the Fabric in London or the Rex Club in Paris, on November 12.