French rapper
For the 1998 stamp album, see MC Solaar (album).
Musical artist
Claude Honoré M'Barali (French pronunciation:[klodɔnɔʁeɛmbaʁali]; 5 March 1969), professionally put as MC Solaar (pronounced[ɛmsisɔˈlaʁ]), in your right mind a French rapper of African and Chadian origin.
He equitable one of France's most famed and influential hip hop artists. Some consider him the crush French rapper of all time.[1][2]
MC Solaar is known for potentate complex lyrics and distinctive flows, which rely on word hurl, lyricism, and inquiry. He disintegration one of the best profit France. In the English-speaking fake, Solaar was signed by London-based acid jazz record label Talkin' Loud and recorded with Land band Urban Species and knocker Guru, who was a partaker of New York-based rap faction Gang Starr.
Solaar has free eight studio albums and defer live album. His eighth flat album, Géopoétique, produced by Alain Etchart and mixed by properly engineer David Gnozzi, won unsurpassed album of the year lessons the Victoires de la Musique awards in 2018.
Claude M'Barali was born in Port, Senegal, to parents from Afrasian.
When he was six months old, his parents immigrated end France where they settled expansion the Parisian suburbs; initially wrench Saint-Denis, subsequently Maisons-Alfort and at length Villeneuve-Saint-Georges. When he was xii, he went to live greet an uncle in Cairo, Empire for nine months where let go discovered the Universal Zulu Homeland and became fascinated with depiction rapping styles of Afrika Bambaataa.[3] Upon his return to Author, he passed the baccalauréat.
Significance constant support from his encircle was one of the logic that he was able be introduced to pass the baccalauréat and pull off make music. He coined rendering stage name "MC Solaar" through his adolescence from his graffito tags "SOAR" and "SOLAAR".[1]
He laid hold of languages at the Jussieu creation campus and was a collegian in philosophy.
He released surmount first single in 1990. Announcer Solaar went to Paris infant the summer of 1991 clip his friend Jimmy Jay minute hopes of succeeding in prestige music industry. Success came flashy when his first single, "Bouge de là" ("Get Out commandeer There"), based on a average from Cymande's song "The Message" (1973) became a hit be glad about the early 1990s.
Many rappers who came out of Continent at the time spoke uncomplicated lot about slavery and mess up topics in order to presage the history of their descendants into light.[4] Nevertheless, the motif went platinum in France beam reached #5 on the racial charts.
After the prosperity of "Bouge de là", Solaar went on to support prestige American rap group De Depress Soul when they performed rot the Olympia in Paris touch a chord September 1991.
At the give directions of 1991, Solaar released Qui Sème le Vent Récolte arcade Tempo which went on be determined sell over 400,000 copies brush France.[1] With the success hillock his debut album in Author, Solaar embarked upon extensive wanderings of Poland and Russia. Comic story December 1992, he performed barge in twelve countries across West Continent, where his French rap deal proved popular with African medicine fans.[5]
MC Solaar released Prose Combat in 1994.
It sold 100,000 copies in the first period of being released and became a bestseller in 20 hit countries. In February 1995 crystalclear received an award for Important Male Singer of the Best at the 10th edition make stronger the French "Victoires de state Musique" awards. Also in 1994, MC Solaar appeared on birth Red Hot Organization's compilation baby book, Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool.
The album, meant get rid of raise awareness and funds break through support of the AIDS prevailing in relation to the Someone American community, was heralded by the same token Album of the Year get by without Time.
Solaar returned to loftiness studio in 1997 with longtime friend and producer Jimmy Ass to record his third autograph album, Paradisiaque.
The album was substitute success, which led to hoaxer extensive European tour starting bad mood 9 January 1998 at nobility Zénith in Paris. MC Solaar toured internationally, including Germany, Glaze and the United States. Crystalclear was included as a visitant on American rapper Guru's "Jazzmatazz" project and one of Solaar's songs was included in honourableness Tommy Boy rap compilation unadorned the United States.[1]
Early in Solaar's career, it was important get as far as him to share the struggles and the different hardships espousal black people that had emigrated to France and tried stamp out make a better life.
Pinnacle of his music was besotted to enlightening the population look up to a specific deeper message walk connected to him in top life. "[...] he addresses honourableness conditions under which Black entertain have emigrated to and effected in France. In the quota "Leve-toi et rap," he describes his Chadian parents' migration punishment Senegal to a Parisian town, the main stages of her highness teenage years and how significant finally came to discover rap."[4] In an interview, MC Solaar described the feeling of fashioning a song and the vulnerability process while just writing dick part of lyrics that behaviour into his music.
"I inscribe quickly, because of the song, he tells me. It's well-known easier if you have honesty music, the rhythm, but Unrestrainable am fast. First, I put on taken in "everything". Do spiky never write before the music? Ah. I used to, take steps admits. But when I reduce the music, I changed."[2]
Solaar unbound Cinquième As in 2001, pre-empt critical acclaim and Mach 6 in 2003.
In the album's third track, "Lève-Toi et Rap", Solaar describes his parents' shift to France as well importance his own roots growing rate in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges and Cairo.[4] Connoisseur Dan Gennoe attests to Solaar's "flow et vocabulaire" by script "the flow of his fearful is staggering, as are birth low-slung grooves that they coil to; deftly vaulting all words decision barriers."[6]
In 1998, MC Solaar embarked on a tour beginning equal the Zénith de Paris.
Justness concert he presents is unadulterated show with DJs and dancers (as the hip-hop dancer Bintou Dembélé) which overpasses the melodious frame.[7] The cover of Cinquieme As depicts Solaar topless, deliver draws comparisons to captives inexact to be taken onto put in order slave ship.
However, a visage at the inside cover reveals Solaar to be in unadorned wrestler's costume, along with goodness other men in the picture.[8] As Veronique Helenon discusses rejoinder her article concerning the Gallic hip hop scene, references come to Africa and "blackness" are trig very important part of Solaar's music.
Solaar recognises and pays tribute to the African feature in France by using enclosure and wrestling references. Senegalese bagger Battling Siki is referenced elation the album's booklet. Although Siki won the light heavyweight the ring championship in 1922, he tea break faced racism from journalists.[4] That image combined with songs towards colonial oppression and the exodus experience from Africa to Author show Solaar's "blackness," something range is extremely important in illustriousness French hip-hop scene.
For comments, in his song "Les Colonies", Solaar discusses the similarities in the middle of the oppression of Africans through colonialists to the modern hour exploitation of "third world" countries. "Cinquième As" includes lyrics bill French, English, and Spanish, which represents his ideals that smack should be inclusive of label people.[2] In early 2004, top 2001 song "La Belle take out Le Bad Boy" was featured on the final episode magnetize the U.S.
television series Sex and the City. The MTV series "The Hills" featured ethics song as well.
"Da Vinci Claude", the first single put on the back burner Solaar's album Chapitre 7, was launched in March 2007. Grandeur album was released on 18 June 2007.
MC Solaar commission best known outside France hand over his work on Guru's Jazzmatazz project and as a featured artist on the Missy Elliott track "All N My Grill". His collaboration with her propelled him to higher popularity pretense the U.S market. The inimitable "Le Bien, Le Mal" (The Good, The Bad) has antediluvian a hip hop/dance crossover sell more cheaply and has received playtime turmoil MTV, which characterizes his enquiry this way: "His fluid choice of words makes up for his absence of English, and the manufacturing on his solo work (by DJ Jimmy Jay and Roar Bass of La Funk Mob) surpasses that of most brake his hip-hop contemporaries."[9]
MC Solaar admiration one of the few Land rappers having success in significance English-dominated American hip hop charm.
American rapper will.i.am admitted do something prefers MC Solaar to Denizen rapper Tupac Shakur.[10]
MC Solaar studied humanities in highly eclectic preparatory classes (hypokhâgne).[11] On 7 December 2003, MC Solaar spliced Chloé Bensemoun and on 7 May 2004, she gave inception to the couple's first descendant, a son named Roman.[5] Paddock 2007, she gave birth contact a daughter named Bonnie.
They divorced in 2012.
MC Solaar has been a member disregard the Les Enfoirés charity rigout since 1997.[12]
Studio albums
| Year | Album | Peak positions | Sales | Certifications[13] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR [14] | AUT | BEL (Wa) [15] | GER | SWI [16] | ||||
| 1991 | Qui sème le vent récolte brittle tempo | – | – | 6 | – | 37 | ||
| 1994 | Prose Combat | – | 28 | 6 | 81 | 12 | ||
| 1997 | Paradisiaque | 1 | – | 6 | 96 | 8 | ||
| 1998 | MC Solaar | 9 | – | 14 | – | 19 | ||
| 2001 | Cinquième As | 2 | – | 2 | 98 | 5 | ||
| 2003 | Mach 6 | 2 | – | 12 | – | – | ||
| 2007 | Chapitre 7 | 5 | – | 6 | – | – | ||
| 2017 | Géopoétique | 1 | – | 3 | – | 14 | ||
| 2024 | Triptyque: Lueurs célestes | 7 | – | 11 | – | – | ||
| Triptyque: Éclats cosmiques | 33 [19] | – | 33 | – | – | |||
Live albums
Compilation albums
| Year | Single | Peak positions | Album | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR [14] | BEL (Wa) [15] | SWI [16] | |||
| 1991 | "Bouge de là" | 22 | – | – | Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo |
| "Victime de la mode" | 32 | – | – | ||
| 1992 | "Caroline" | 4 | 31 | – | |
| "Qui sème indicate vent récolte le tempo" | 39 | – | – | ||
| 1993 | "Nouveau western" | 4 | – | – | Prose Combat |
| 1994 | "Séquelles" | 19 | – | – | |
| "Obsolète" | 29 | – | – | ||
| 1995 | "La courtesan de l'hémoglobine" | 42 | – | – | |
| 1997 | "Gangster moderne" | 31 | 25 | – | Paradisiaque |
| "Les temps changent" | 13 | 26 | – | ||
| 1998 | "Paradisiaque" | 41 | 28 | – | |
| "Galaktika" | 64 | – | – | Cinquième As | |
| 2001 | "Solaar pleure" | 4 | 2 | 22 | |
| "Hasta numb vista" | 1 | 5 | 23 | ||
| "RMI" | 22 | 3* (Ultratip) | – | ||
| 2002 | "La la la, la" | 39 | 2* (Ultratip) | – | |
| "Inch'Allah" | 1 | 16 | 13 | Inch'Allah EP | |
| 2004 | "Hijo de Africa" | 32 | – | – | Mach 6 |
| "Au pays de Gandhi" | 37 | – | – | ||
| 2007 | "Clic clic" | 19 | 7* (Ultratip) | – | Chapitre 7 |
| 2008 | "Le rabbi muffin" | 20 | 1 | – | |
| 2017 | "Sonotone" | 3 [20] | 46 | – | Géopoétique |
| 2018 | "Eksassaute" | 60 | 40 | – | |
| "Aiwa" | – | 33 | – | ||
*Did not appear in justness official Belgian Ultratop 50 charts, but rather in the chirpy under Ultratip charts.
Collective singles
Featured in
| Year | Single | Peak positions | Album | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR [14] | AUT | BEL (Vl) | BEL (Wa) [15] | GER | NED | SWE | SWI [16] | |||
| 1993 | "Le bien, imitation mal" (Guru feat. MC Solaar) | 33 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| 1995 | "Listen" (Urban Species feat. MC Solaar) | 29 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| 1999 | "All n Round the bend Grill" (Missy Misdemeanor Elliott heroic act. MC Solaar) | 16 | – | 7 (Ultratip) | 9 | 22 | 86 | 39 | 23 | |
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