STROMAE. After the event release of the single “Santé”, Stromae confirms its return next spring with its new album and a tour.
[Mis à jour le 09 décembre 2022 à 11h13] “I’m very happy to make this announcement, it’s been a while, see you soon.” Stromae confirms their return and lifts the veil on the name and release date of their long-awaited new album: Multitude will appear in stores on March 4, 2022! An announcement that should delight the fans, who enthusiastically welcomed Health, the song and the surprise clip by the Belgian artist, released on October 15th.
In a funny video, it is a “multitude” of Stromae who announces the release date, the name of the album and returns to the few tour dates announced in recent weeks. New concert dates have just been announced, in particular a show at the Accor Arena in Paris on February 24, 2022, or two concerts at Paris La Défense Arena on June 16 and 17, 2023. Find all the dates of its tour this way.
On the occasion of all these announcements, the singer Stromae performed live for the first time since his last album, on the set of The Tonight Show, the late American show by Jimmy Fallon, surrounded by his musicians and dancers. The Belgian was able to interpret Health, first single from the album Multitude. A first live passage which gives an idea of the new visual identity of Stromae …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAT2jERSbFE
“How about we celebrate those who don’t celebrate.” For Stromae, good news never comes alone. After having created the surprise this Friday, October 15, 2021 by catching his audience upon waking up, at six in the morning with Health, his new song, the interpreter of Papaoutai unveiled in the wake, at the end of the day, the clip that accompanies this single. Proof of the wait around the Belgian’s new project: the video has been viewed nearly five million times in a weekend.
In the video, Stromae features the people mentioned in the lyrics of his song, Rosa, Albert, Céline or Arlette, “Plane pilot or nurse, truck driver or flight attendant, Baker or fisherman” , “those who do not celebrate”, to whom he wants to “raise [s]we drink “. Everyone starts dancing, following the Maestro’s instructions. Discover the Health clip below:
The surprise is successful. In a few hours, Health, Stromae’s new song available on YouTube and all streaming listening platforms, has become one of the most commented topics on Twitter. Many internet users, anonymous or famous, are ecstatic about this long-awaited return. “Let’s raise our glass when you get back,” Omar Sy wrote on Twitter, for example. It must be said that nothing had filtered concerning this first single, released at six in the morning this Friday, October 15. For Stromae admirers, the surprise is as great as it is beautiful.
“Twitter Health!” : on social networks, to announce the surprise release of his first single, this is the formula used by Stromae. “What if we celebrated those who do not celebrate? For once, I would like to raise my glass to those who do not have one! To those who do not …”, sings the author, composer and Belgian performer in this piece, in which he evokes different trades, these “everyday heroes” tested by the Covid-19 pandemic: “Airplane pilot or nurse, truck driver or flight attendant, Baker or fisherman. “
But does the title of this new song have any other meaning? On the Internet, the term Health is very often used in association with that of Stromae, which withdrew from the scene in 2015 after, precisely, health problems. Victim of serious side effects of preventive anti-malaria treatment, he had to withdraw from public life. “I did not support the treatment, it gave me hallucinations. I thought I had fallen into madness, I was diagnosed with psychic decompensation”, he confided in this regard to Liberation in 2017.
Since his last album and his forced retirement, Stromae has diversified: with his wife Coralie Barbier and his brother Luc Junior Tam, he Paul Van Haver aka Stromae has developed their Mosaert (anagram of Stromae), a multidisciplinary label that brings together music, clips and clothes. In 2018, the singer had also unveiled a new nine-minute track, used as the soundtrack of a parade of this brand. Among his rare appearances since his withdrawal from the spotlights, a collaboration with Orelsan in 2017 or with Coldplay in 2019.
For this new album, expected in the coming weeks, Stromae can take his time: he is the producer of his project. This also explains his sudden break in 2015, after a mental decompression and a bad reaction to treatment against malaria. “Even if I had been under an artist contract, I couldn’t have been forced. Either I would have found a subterfuge, or I would have released a rotten album, without giving a damn. . Lots of artists do that “, explains Stromae to Libé. His younger brother, Luc Junior Tam, who also produces the project, adds: “We have always been producers of music, tours, and on the strength of the two albums, we have been able to develop each of our skills. can continue the label without necessarily having Paul in the spotlight. “
Eleven years ago, Stromae landed on all the airwaves with the tube Then we dance. But since 2013 and the release of his album Square root, then the brutal brake on his career in 2015, the Belgian singer had withdrawn from the music scene as media. However, after having mentioned a potential return in the newspaper Liberation last November, it is in the Belgian magazine Max that the 36-year-old artist reassured his fans in May 2021, explaining that he had never given up on music. “I never really stopped. I work and I have a lot of fun. My absence makes me feel good, but it is not final. I take the opportunity to take care of my two and a half year old son. then, it’s not like I’m no longer working. I’m just a lot less publicized “, confides the singer, who has still not given a date to this new album:” I do not have a date yet. announce. I am aware that there is demand. “
In November 2020, in an interview with the newspaper Release, Stromae was already explaining that he had never strayed from his passion. “I never really quit except at a time when I was really not well. I do it every day, I work with and for others … An album will come at some point but I don’t ‘I don’t really have a date. To have diversified, not to have the attention focused on the Stromae project, that feels good “, explains the 35-year-old artist.
The single Health is good news for admirers of the Belgian artist, who had more or less formalized the release of an album this fall, before confirming his return with its program at the festival Rock en Seine, in August 2022 at the Domaine national de Saint-Cloud, near Paris. A first concert date, the very first announced in France, almost nine years after his last album. “An event, the word is weak”, congratulate the organizers of Rock en Seine. In addition, Stromae has announced the first dates of his tour, which will pass, in addition to Rock en Seine, by Les Eurockéennes on June 30, Garorock on July 7, Les Vieilles Charrues on July 14, Festival de Poupet on July 15 and at Cabaret Vert on August 17, 2022.
On its Twitter account, Paris La Défense Arena announces the arrival of Stromae for two exceptional concerts, on June 16 and 17, 2023. The ticket office opens for pre-sales on December 15. Here are all the dates announced for Stromae’s new tour, on the occasion of the release of Multitude :
- Brussels – Belgium – Palais 12 – 22 February 2022
- Paris – Accor Arena – February 24, 2022
- Amsterdam – Netherlands – Afas Live – February 27, 2022
- Ruoms – Aluna Festival – June 16, 2022
- Lyon – Inversion – June 17, 2022
- Werchter – Belgium – June 19, 2022
- Belfort – Les Eurockéennes – June 30, 2022
- Marmande – Garorock – July 3, 2022
- Lisbon – Portugal – NOS Alive Festival – July 6, 2022
- Bilbao – Spain – BBK Live Festival – July 8, 2022
- Liège – Belgium – Les Ardentes – July 10, 2022
- Carhaix – Les Vieilles Charrues – July 14, 2022
- Saint-Malo-du-Bois – Poupet Festival – July 15, 2022
- Milan – Italy – Milano Summer Festival – July 20, 2022
- Nyon – Switzerland – Paléo Festival – July 24, 2022
- Charleville Mézières – Cabaret-Vert – August 17, 2022
- Paris – Rock en Seine – August 28, 2022
- Munich – Germany – Superbloom Festival – September 04, 2022
- Bordeaux – Arkéa Arena – March 4 and 5, 2023
- Marseilles – Le Dôme – March 9 and 10, 2023
- Brussels – Belgium – Palais 12 – March 15, 16 and 17, 2023
- Strasbourg – Zenith – March 22, 2023
- Amneville – Galaxie – March 23 and 24, 2023
- Nantes – Zénith – March 29 and 30, 2023
- Toulouse – Zénith – April 20 and 21, 2023
- Basel – Switzerland – April 26, 2023
- Geneva – Switzerland – April 27 and 28, 2023
- Lyon – Halle Tony Garnier – May 24 and 25, 2023
- Lille – Arena Stade Pierre Mauroy – June 10 and 11, 2023
- Paris – La Défense Arena – June 16 and 17, 2023