Stromae
Stromae [ stʁɔˈmaj ] (born March 12, 1985 in Etterbeek , Brussels Capital Region ; real name Paul Van Haver ) is a Belgian musician , producer and fashion designer . He produces music in the genres of new beat , hip-hop and electro . His stage name is a Verlan from Maestro .
biography
Paul Van Haver is the son of a Belgian mother. He grew up without his Rwandan father, who left the family and returned to Rwanda, where he was a victim of genocide in 1994 . His mother sent him to a Jesuit boarding school, where he formed a hip-hop band. Van Haver received lessons in music and drums at the Académie musicale de Jette .
In 2000 he first appeared in the hip-hop scene under the pseudonym OpsMaestro . He later changed his stage name to Stromae ( Maestro with swapped syllables) and had his first successes under this name. At the age of 18 he founded a rap group called Suspicion in Belgium together with the rapper JEDI . Together they produced the song and the clip Faut que t'arrêtes le Rap . After that, however, JEDI decided to leave the rap duo.
Stromae worked temporarily in a fast food restaurant to finance a attendance at a private school. However, his savings were insufficient , whereupon he enrolled in the Institut National de Radioélectricité et Cinématographie . There he completed his first work, his album Juste un cerveau, un flow, un fond et un mic ...
He signed a four-year recording deal with Because Music and Kilomaître in 2008 . In 2009 Van Haver worked as a volunteer at NRJ Radio Station in Brussels. Music manager Vincent Verbelen was won over by Stromae's first single Alors on danse and played the song for the first time ever on NRJ. The listeners loved it and Stromae's career took off. Alors on danse stayed at number one in the charts in French-speaking Belgium for five weeks . In Germany, the title reached number 1 on the iTunes charts at the beginning of February 2010 and also rose to first place in the German single charts on March 12th . He is the first completely French-speaking at number one since Ella, elle l'a by France Gall in 1988. On April 3, 2010, he received the first NRJ Young Talent Revelation Award , which it by the Belgian Minister of Culture Fadila Laanan handed has been. In 2011 he was awarded the European Border Breakers Award (EBBA).
It was three years before his next album. Two singles were released in advance: Formidable was released in June 2013 and became a summer hit in Stromaes homeland. Papaoutai (sound like "Papa où t'es" = Papa, where are you) is a song about the inner search for his father, an architect who, as a Tutsi, was a victim of the genocide in Rwanda . The song reached in Belgium and in France , the chart peak and was about the French-speaking countries also in the charts. The album Racine carrée (= square root ) was released in August 2013 and has also entered the charts with international success. In France it has been awarded four diamonds for over two million sales to date and has stayed at the top of the album charts for 25 weeks with interruptions. In September 2013, the Belgian rock band Mintzkov covered his song Formidable in English under the title Formidable / Wonderful for the radio station Studio Brussel .
Since he had to cancel a tour through Africa in 2015 due to anxiety caused by the malaria drug Lariam ( mefloquine ), Stromae has avoided public appearances. In an interview in 2017, he stated that he was still suffering from panic attacks and initially left it open whether he would ever be able to make music professionally again. On November 22nd, 2019, however, he was a guest singer with the band Coldplay at a live performance in Jordan . He sang along with the song Arabesque .
Stromae is married and runs the fashion label Mosaert with his wife Coralie .
Discography
Studio albums
year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||||||
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DE | AT | CH | UK | FR | BE F | BE W | |||
2010 | Cheese |
DE28 (8 weeks) DE |
AT33 (8 weeks) AT |
CH18 (28 weeks) CH |
- |
FR6th
gold
(232 weeks)FR |
BE F7th × 3
(35 weeks)BE F |
BE W1 (45 weeks) BE W |
First published: June 14, 2010
Sales: + 260,000 |
2013 | Racine carrée |
DE21 (24 weeks) DE |
AT-
gold
AT
|
CH1 × 5
(120 weeks)CH |
- |
FR1 × 4
(249 weeks)FR |
BE F1 × 12
(107 weeks)BE F |
BE W1 (107 weeks) BE W |
First published: August 16, 2013
Sales: + 3,500,000 |
Compilations
year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
DE | AT | CH | UK | FR | BE F | BE W | |||
2017 | Cheese + Racine carrée | - | - | - | - |
FR35 (19 weeks) FR |
- | - |
First published: August 18, 2017
|
More albums
year | title | Remarks |
---|---|---|
2006 | Freestyle finest | First publication: 2006; Mixtape |
2007 | Juste un cerveau, un flow, un fond et un mic ... | First publication: 2007; EP |
2009 | Mixture Elecstro | First published: October 31, 2009; Mixtape |
2015 | Racine Carrée Live | First published: December 11, 2015; Video album, FR:diamond |
Singles
year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
DE | AT | CH | UK | FR | BE F | BE W | |||
2009 |
Alors on danse cheese |
DE1
platinum
(59 weeks)DE |
AT1 (39 weeks) AT |
CH1 × 2
(69 weeks)CH |
UK25th
silver
(12 weeks)UK |
FR1 (148 weeks) FR |
BE F1 × 3
(42 weeks)BE F |
BE W1 (87 weeks) BE W |
First published: September 21, 2009
Sales: +3,000,000 |
2010 | Peace or Violence Cheese |
- |
AT74 (1 week) AT |
- | - | - | - |
BE W12 (16 weeks) BE W |
First published: May 31, 2010
|
House'llelujah Cheese |
- | - | - | - | - | - |
BE W22 (10 weeks) BE W |
First published: 2010
|
|
Silence cheese |
- | - | - | - | - | - |
BE W26 (1 week) BE W |
First published: June 18, 2010
|
|
Je cours cheese |
- | - | - | - | - |
BE F15 (11 weeks) BE F |
BE W16 (17 weeks) BE W |
First published: 2010
|
|
Te quiero cheese |
- | - |
CH62 (3 weeks) CH |
- |
FR153 (9 weeks) FR |
BE F17th
gold
(10 weeks)BE F |
BE W4 (17 weeks) BE W |
First published: August 27, 2010
Sales: + 10,000 |
|
2013 |
Papaoutai Racine carrée |
DE6 (32 weeks) DE |
AT3
gold
(21 weeks)AT |
CH4th × 2
(58 weeks)CH |
- |
FR1 (110 weeks) FR |
BE F3 × 3
(46 weeks)BE F |
BE W1 (54 weeks) BE W |
First published: May 13, 2013
Sales: + 330,000 |
Formidable Racine carrée |
DE39 (4 weeks) DE |
AT36 (2 weeks) AT |
CH13
platinum
(43 weeks)CH |
- |
FR1 (87 weeks) FR |
BE F1 × 3
(40 weeks)BE F |
BE W1 (41 weeks) BE W |
First published: May 27, 2013
Sales: + 249,000 |
|
Tous les mêmes Racine carrée |
- | - |
CH27 (24 weeks) CH |
- |
FR1 (68 weeks) FR |
BE F4th
platinum
(21 weeks)BE F |
BE W1 (34 weeks) BE W |
First published: September 24, 2013
Sales: + 252,000 |
|
2014 | Ta fête Racine carrée |
- | - | - | - |
FR30 (47 weeks) FR |
BE F6th
platinum
(23 weeks)BE F |
BE W2 (30 weeks) BE W |
First published: February 3, 2014
|
Ave Cesaria Racine Carrée |
- | - | - | - |
FR97 (41 weeks) FR |
- |
BE W45 (1 week) BE W |
First published: July 21, 2014
|
|
Meltdown The Hunger Games - Mockingjay Part 1 (OST) |
- | - | - | - |
FR107 (1 week) FR |
BE F7 (12 weeks) BE F |
BE W5 (12 weeks) BE W |
||
2015 | Carmen Racine Carrée |
- | - | - | - |
FR67 (16 weeks) FR |
BE F31 (3 weeks) BE F |
BE W46 (2 weeks) BE W |
First published: March 30, 2015
|
Quand c'est? Racine carrée |
- | - | - | - |
FR142 (3 weeks) FR |
BE F39 (1 week) BE F |
- |
First published: September 14, 2015
|
|
2018 | Défiler |
- | - | - | - |
FR40 (2 weeks) FR |
BE F29 (2 weeks) BE F |
BE W7 (2 weeks) BE W |
First published: April 27, 2018
|
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement: | |||||||||
2013 | Bâtard Racine carrée |
- | - | - | - |
FR52 (30 weeks) FR |
- |
BE W37 (1 week) BE W |
First published: August 16, 2013
|
AVF Racine carrée |
- | - | - | - |
FR43 (22 weeks) FR |
- |
BE W38 (1 week) BE W |
||
Humain à l'eau Racine carrée |
- | - | - | - |
FR110 (2 weeks) FR |
- |
BE W47 (1 week) BE W |
First published: August 16, 2013
|
|
Sommeil Racine Carrée |
- | - | - | - |
FR142 (10 weeks) FR |
- | - |
First published: August 16, 2013
|
|
Merci Racine square |
- | - | - | - |
FR143 (1 week) FR |
- | - |
First published: August 16, 2013
|
|
Moules frites Racine carrée |
- | - | - | - |
FR189 (1 week) FR |
- | - |
First published: August 16, 2013
|
Guest Posts
year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
FR | BE F | BE W | |||
2017 | Peine & pitié J4M |
FR54 (8 weeks) FR |
- |
BE W19 (10 weeks) BE W |
First published: March 2017
Vitaa feat. Stromae |
Comme dab J4M |
FR39
gold
(8 weeks)FR |
- | - |
First publication: April 2017
Vitaa feat. Stromae |
|
La pluie La fête est finie |
FR11
diamond
(45 weeks)FR |
- |
BE W2 (18 weeks) BE W |
First release: October 2017
Orelsan feat. Stromae |
More singles
- 2009: Up saw liz
- 2010: Bienvenue chez moi
- 2010: Rail de musique
- 2014: Putain putain (with Arno )
- 2017: Repetto X Mosaert
- 2018: Défiler (Bande originale de la capsule No. 5 Mosaert)
Awards for music sales
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Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.
Country / Region | silver | gold | platinum | diamond | Sales | swell |
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Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources) |
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Belgium (BEA) | - | gold1 | 26 × platinum26th | - | 795,000 | ultratop.be |
Denmark (IFPI) | - | 4 × gold4th | platinum1 | - | 70,000 | ifpi.dk |
Germany (BVMI) | - | - | platinum1 | - | 300,000 | musikindustrie.de |
Europe (IFPI) | - | - | 2 × platinum2 | - | (2,000,000) | ifpi.org |
France (SNEP) | - | 2 × gold2 | - | 6 × diamond6th | 2,585,000 | infodisc.fr snepmusique.com |
Italy (FIMI) | - | gold1 | 6 × platinum6th | - | 215,000 | fimi.it |
Canada (MC) | - | - | platinum1 | - | 80,000 | musiccanada.com |
Netherlands (NVPI) | - | - | 3 × platinum3 | - | 70,000 | nvpi.nl |
Austria (IFPI) | - | 2 × gold2 | - | - | 22,500 | ifpi.at |
Russia (NFPF) | - | - | 2 × platinum2 | - | 40,000 | Individual evidence |
Sweden (IFPI) | - | gold1 | - | - | 20,000 | sverigetopplistan.se |
Switzerland (IFPI) | - | - | 10 × platinum10 | - | 250,000 | hitparade.ch |
Spain (Promusicae) | - | gold1 | - | - | 20,000 | elportaldelmusicas.es |
United States (RIAA) | - | gold1 | - | - | 500,000 | riaa.com |
United Kingdom (BPI) | silver1 | - | - | - | 200,000 | bpi.co.uk |
All in all | silver1 | 13 × gold13 | 52 × platinum52 | 6 × diamond6th |
Web links
- Stromaes website
- Website of the fashion label Mosaert
- Stromae at Discogs (English)
- Stromae - Biographie, discographie et un extrait ( Memento of September 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Shy colleagues . In: Der Spiegel . No. 42/2017 . Hamburg, S. 134 .
- ↑ Bonjour, Stromae! on Einslive.de
- ↑ http://www.belgieninfo.net/artikel/view/article/das-musikphaenomen-stromae/ ( Memento from April 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Andrea Crossan: This musician has a half-billion video views. So who the hell is he? In: PRI's The World of March 27, 2015 (English)
- ↑ taz, Easter 2016, p. 3.
- ↑ Interview Musique Maestro! ( Memento of January 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), managed by Maxime Le Cerf for kcnv.net in December 2010
- ↑ Interview Stromae: "Maintenant on va faire la fête sur des morceaux tristes" ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , managed by Michaël Rochette, published on March 23, 2010 on the website of the French mobile operator SFR
- ↑ Biography: Stromae at swr3.de, accessed on March 5, 2010
- ↑ http://www.newspoint.cc/artikel/Musik/Neuer_Hit_Stromae_-_Alors_On_Danse_50304.html ( Memento from September 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Stromae, le géant calme marianne.net, September 8, 2013
- ↑ a b c d e Chart sources: DE AT CH UK FR BEW (Wallonia) BEF (Flanders)
- ↑ Stromae - Спасибо всем !!!! - Merci à tous !!!
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Stromae |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Van Haver, Paul (real name); OpsMaestro (former stage name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian hip-hop and electronic musician and fashion designer |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 12, 1985 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Etterbeek , Belgium |