Madeleine de ProustIt is an unexpected album that launched the year 2025 musically, at least in the world of rap. 10. corner Where Quebec meets the world.
In Raz Rap Disc Tide, he published in Quebec in the autumn of 2024, as well as those scheduled for 2025, Sael is an exception; It’s the breath of freshness. He explodes and surprises. Like the one who lies behind this name of the artist, the album Madeleine de Proust will make a way.
Sael is the name of the artist who chose Raed Hammoud. And Raed, that’s World race by itself. We know him especially for his documents Tomorrow Africa, where are you, youssef ?, dust daesh or Stump immigrants, But also as a commentator in Radio-Canada and Télé-Quebec. His name of the artist, Sael, comes from Niger where he was born. Sahel is a group that passes through Africa from east to west, which creates a natural limit between Sahara’s desert to the north and countries bordering it south, including Niger. Raed was born there from a Lebanese father and mother with Senegalese roots. He then made part of his education in France before he finally settled in Quebec at the age of 16.
In the coast-de-Neiges for the microphone
“In Niger, when I was young, no one knew it, but I wrote the lyrics, I informed in my room and thought that one day I would do music. And that’s what made me come to Canada at the age of 16, ”he said. Imagine the courage-or naivit-you need to leave Niger in adolescence and connect to a friend who lives in the coast-de-Neiges, in Montreal because it has a home studio embryo: computer and computer and microphone. It should be admitted that at that time home studies in Quebec were not common. So imagine in Africa! We can understand the opportunity that Raed saw here.
Convisted and passionate, came to his goals with the group he created, CDN Crew, almost ten years. However, the young man also led in parallel university studies in international relations. Dreamed of working for NGOs. Once his baccalaureate is finished, his initial planning internship in Lebanon was thwarted by armed clashes associated with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. That is why he fell back to an internship in Radio-Canada and began to surprise the rise in the media world. After ten years of music, this professional transition seemed to go without it.
Redefine its identity
But his musical passion remained. He never stopped rapper. And in production he is lined with his friend Manu Militari, a reference in Quebec hip-hop that Sael was born after creating Madeleine de Proust. It was the perfect opportunity to “redefine my identity. I decided to call me Sael for a simple and good reason that I didn’t want to play on radio Canada or in music, or that I was invited because I was already known as the Raed Hammoud. ”
And the music it offers will succeed at hand test anonymity. From one song to another, music frames force us to discover African guitars, Moroccan sounds, Latin accents, electronic rhythms Beats Anchored in hip-hop culture. Culturally rich discs are rare in Quebec, all species together.
Sael also points out that his music agrees with his personal listening lists. “Rap is 10 % to 25 % of what I listen to in the sense that I really listen to music everywhere.” I like to discover new genres. I like to discover new artists. Then you also have to go with what your heart vibrates. This means that you gave guitar from West Africa, a desert guitar, a little Tuareg and everything … That’s something to me! It’s automatic, it’s physical. »»
Valve
Although on some songs we recognize its social and political appearance, which is empathetic and devoted, Sael will also surprise by the anticipated ease. He approaches love, desire, party … “Yes, it’s much easier music than you can imagine. Because that’s exactly what I’m doing entertainment. I do it to make my niece dance. I want, in 15 years, if I have children, they listen (my music). You know, Time zones, It’s a great light. Paparazzi, It’s a great light. But then you listen to Madeleine de Proust, You listen to One dImanche in Kigali And there you will find depth. »»
We understand between the lines that the music is its valve. This reflection brings him back to one of his many travel meetings. In Congo, he crossed the roads with one of the biggest stars in African music, InnosS’B. “I told him,”Bro, You come from KIVA. There were hundreds of thousands of deaths. One of the worst conflicts since World War II. But do you make sunny music? “He replied,”Man, When you are shit, you do not want us to remember that you are still in shit ”. Our nomadic artist met this approach.
In short, Sael is a balancer whose music is gently woven from rap and cultural diversity, as well as deep and daily considerations. Finally, for artists, his creation is also a wish to share, whose target audience is simply the one who knows each other. “I hope people will be able to establish a connection with their own existence.” This is how I see music: I hope that bridges or at least a connection between what people have experienced and what I experienced can create. »»
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