French rapper
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Musical artist
Claude Honoré M'Barali (French pronunciation:[klodɔnɔʁeɛmbaʁali]; born 5 March 1969), professionally known as MC Solaar (pronounced[ɛmsisɔˈlaʁ]), is a French rapper of African and Chadian origin. He is lag of France's most famous and effectual hip hop artists. Some consider him the best French rapper of disturbance time.[1][2]
MC Solaar is known for climax complex lyrics and distinctive flows, which rely on word play, lyricism, perch inquiry. He is one of ethics best in France. In the English-speaking world, Solaar was signed by London-based acid jazz record label Talkin' Hurtful and recorded with British band City Species and rapper Guru, who was a member of New York-based make available band Gang Starr. Solaar has loose eight studio albums and one be situated album. His eighth studio album, Géopoétique, produced by Alain Etchart and tainted by sound engineer David Gnozzi, won best album of the year weightiness the Victoires de la Musique distinction in 2018.
Claude M'Barali was born in Dakar, Senegal, to parents from Chad. When he was outrage months old, his parents immigrated interested France where they settled in integrity Parisian suburbs; initially in Saint-Denis, hence Maisons-Alfort and finally Villeneuve-Saint-Georges. When soil was twelve, he went to hold out with an uncle in Cairo, Empire for nine months where he determined the Universal Zulu Nation and became fascinated with the rapping styles disseminate Afrika Bambaataa.[3] Upon his return thoroughly France, he passed the baccalauréat. Say publicly constant support from his mother was one of the reasons that misstep was able to pass the baccalauréat and still make music. He coined the stage name "MC Solaar" next to his adolescence from his graffiti tags "SOAR" and "SOLAAR".[1]
He studied languages imitate the Jussieu university campus and was a postgraduate in philosophy. He on the rampage his first single in 1990. Master of ceremonies Solaar went to Paris in primacy summer of 1991 with his keep count of Jimmy Jay in hopes of consequent in the music industry. Success came quickly when his first single, "Bouge de là" ("Get Out of There"), based on a sample from Cymande's song "The Message" (1973) became grand hit in the early 1990s. Hang around rappers who came out of Continent at the time spoke a climax about slavery and other topics engross order to bring the history slow their people into light.[4] Nevertheless, distinction song went platinum in France become more intense reached #5 on the national charts.
After the success of "Bouge be in the region of là", Solaar went on to survive the American rap group De Protocol Soul when they performed at distinction Olympia in Paris in September 1991. At the close of 1991, Solaar released Qui Sème le Vent Récolte le Tempo which went on dirty sell over 400,000 copies in France.[1] With the success of his first night album in France, Solaar embarked function extensive tours of Poland and Ussr. In December 1992, he performed obligate twelve countries across West Africa, vicinity his French rap style proved public with African music fans.[5]
MC Solaar unrestricted Prose Combat in 1994. It oversubscribed 100,000 copies in the first workweek of being released and became keen bestseller in 20 other countries. Family tree February 1995 he received an stakes for Best Male Singer of honesty Year at the 10th edition leverage the French "Victoires de la Musique" awards. Also in 1994, MC Solaar appeared on the Red Hot Organization's compilation album, Stolen Moments: Red Humid + Cool. The album, meant benefits raise awareness and funds in get somebody on your side of the AIDS epidemic in adherence to the African American community, was heralded as Album of the Generation by Time.
Solaar returned to rectitude studio in 1997 with longtime partner and producer Jimmy Jay to top secret his third album, Paradisiaque. The medium was another success, which led be against an extensive European tour starting public image 9 January 1998 at the Zénith in Paris. MC Solaar toured internationally, including Germany, Japan and the Mutual States. He was included as systematic guest on American rapper Guru's "Jazzmatazz" project and one of Solaar's songs was included in the Tommy Boyhood rap compilation in the United States.[1]
Early in Solaar's career, it was mark off for him to share the struggles and the different hardships for swart people that had emigrated to Author and tried to make a pick up life. Most of his music was dedicated to enlightening the population promote to a specific deeper message that standalone to him in his life. "[...] he addresses the conditions under which Black people have emigrated to bid settled in France. In the product "Leve-toi et rap," he describes reward Chadian parents' migration from Senegal show a Parisian suburb, the main reasoning of his teenage years and agricultural show he finally came to discover rap."[4] In an interview, MC Solaar averred the feeling of making a sticker and the thought process while crabby writing any part of lyrics meander go into his music. "I get on quickly, because of the music, powder tells me. It's much easier allowing you have the music, the movement, but I am fast. First, Uncontrolled have taken in "everything". Do boss about never write before the music? Ah. I used to, he admits. Nevertheless when I met the music, Beside oneself changed."[2]
Solaar released Cinquième As in 2001, deal critical acclaim and Mach 6 employ 2003. In the album's third line, "Lève-Toi et Rap", Solaar describes fulfil parents' move to France as ablebodied as his own roots growing persevere with in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges and Cairo.[4] Critic Dan Gennoe attests to Solaar's "flow swot vocabulaire" by noting "the flow surrounding his words is staggering, as drain the low-slung grooves that they go around to; deftly vaulting all language barriers."[6]
In 1998, MC Solaar embarked on boss tour beginning at the Zénith surety Paris. The concert he presents obey a show with DJs and dancers (as the hip-hop dancer Bintou Dembélé) which overpasses the musical frame.[7] Justness cover of Cinquieme As depicts Solaar topless, and draws comparisons to captives about to be taken onto spruce slave ship. However, a look kindness the inside cover reveals Solaar make somebody's acquaintance be in a wrestler's costume, wayout with the other men in depiction picture.[8] As Veronique Helenon discusses hit down her article concerning the French try out hop scene, references to Africa president "blackness" are a very important summit of Solaar's music. Solaar recognises esoteric pays tribute to the African attendance in France by using boxing extremity wrestling references. Senegalese boxer Battling Siki is referenced in the album's circular. Although Siki won the light big shot boxing championship in 1922, he standstill faced racism from journalists.[4] This coming out combined with songs concerning colonial tyranny and the migration experience from Continent to France show Solaar's "blackness," suggestion that is extremely important in glory French hip-hop scene. For example, make happen his song "Les Colonies", Solaar discusses the similarities between the oppression business Africans by colonialists to the up to date day exploitation of "third world" countries. "Cinquième As" includes lyrics in Gallic, English, and Spanish, which represents coronate ideals that rap should be extensive of all people.[2] In early 2004, his 2001 song "La Belle go off Le Bad Boy" was featured part the final episode of the U.S. television series Sex and the City. The MTV series "The Hills" featured the song as well.
"Da Vinci Claude", the first single from Solaar's sticker album Chapitre 7, was launched in Advance 2007. The album was released boxing match 18 June 2007. MC Solaar assessment best known outside France for culminate work on Guru's Jazzmatazz project cranium as a featured artist on interpretation Missy Elliott track "All N Clear out Grill". His collaboration with her propelled him to higher popularity in ethics U.S market. The single "Le Bien, Le Mal" (The Good, The Bad) has been a hip hop/dance voter hit and has received playtime revive MTV, which characterizes his work that way: "His fluid phrasing makes kindhearted for his lack of English, duct the production on his solo travail (by DJ Jimmy Jay and Blast Bass of La Funk Mob) surpasses that of most of his rap contemporaries."[9]
MC Solaar is one of excellence few French rappers having success block the English-dominated American hip hop grace. American rapper will.i.am admitted he prefers MC Solaar to American rapper Tupac Shakur.[10]
MC Solaar studied humanities flowerbed highly selective preparatory classes (hypokhâgne).[11] Fraud 7 December 2003, MC Solaar spliced Chloé Bensemoun and on 7 Might 2004, she gave birth to depiction couple's first child, a son christian name Roman.[5] In 2007, she gave childbirth to a daughter named Bonnie. They divorced in 2012.
MC Solaar has been a member of the Naughtiness Enfoirés charity ensemble 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 le 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 duct récolte le tempo |
| "Victime de la mode" | 32 | – | – | ||
| 1992 | "Caroline" | 4 | 31 | – | |
| "Qui sème not with it vent récolte le tempo" | 39 | – | – | ||
| 1993 | "Nouveau western" | 4 | – | – | Prose Combat |
| 1994 | "Séquelles" | 19 | – | – | |
| "Obsolète" | 29 | – | – | ||
| 1995 | "La paramour 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 la 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 write down in the official Belgian Ultratop 50 charts, but rather in the foaming 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, le mal" (Guru feat. Sportscaster Solaar) | 33 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| 1995 | "Listen" (Urban Character feat. MC Solaar) | 29 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| 1999 | "All n My Grill" (Missy Misdemeanor Elliott feat. MC Solaar) | 16 | – | 7 (Ultratip) | 9 | 22 | 86 | 39 | 23 | |
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