STROMAE. Singer Stromae has confirmed his return with a new album and tour, after six years of silence.
[Mis à jour le 14 décembre 2022 à 20h46] His fans have been waiting for a return to music for six years: yet Stromae has never strayed from his first love. 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.
Before the announcement of his new album, Multitude, expected in spring, cIt 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. “ Indeed.
After all these years of silence, the Belgian artist has returned to the limelight, first with the release on October 15 of the single and the clip. Health, then the announcement of Multitude, his album to be released in the spring and finally a new tour. What to stir his admirers, who can wait while watching the documentary Stromae, The man with two faces, broadcast this Tuesday evening on W9.
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“I’m very happy to make this announcement, it’s been a while, see you soon.” Last week, Stromae confirmed his return by lifting the veil on the name and release date of his long-awaited new album: Multitude expected in stores on March 4, 2022.
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 …
“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 words 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:
“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.
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