WEJDENE. Attacked on her physique and her way of standing, the singer Wejdene sent a message to her detractors on Instagram.
With fame, critics. The singer Wejdene, very followed on social networks, came out of silence on Sunday July 10 and sent a message to her detractors on social networks. “This morning, I wake up and I see that you have not finished criticizing me, talking about my physique, my music, and everything that makes me the person I am”, writes the young woman in Instagram stories.
And to continue, about the criticism of his way of standing or his skin color: “I did the gym for 7 years so yes I am arched, I do not do it on purpose and yes I have scoliosis Which doesn’t help matters. You’re doctors to deduce that it’s not that? My skin color, maybe you want me to show you my family tree? Since we have to show you everything.”
Scoliosis, from which Wejdene suffers, is a deformation of the spine, linked to a rotation of the vertebrae. It is detected mainly in childhood or adolescence and can also be a consequence of a disease or a malformation. Scoliosis can lead to deformation of the back, in particular the appearance of a hump (humpback) in the upper back.
The young woman was born in Seine-Saint-Denis, then grew up in Brunoy, in Essonne, about twenty kilometers south of Paris. She is the daughter of the Tunisian artist Badra Zarzis, multi-instrumentalist and singer, with whom she has sung since a young age. Wejdene is the second child in the family, she has two sisters and a three-year-old brother. If she has long maintained doubts about her date of birth, she claimed to be 16, like the name of her first album. This does not prevent Internet users from continuing to wonder, especially when the singer posts a video of her driving a car.
Be that as it may, in just six months, the young, self-taught artist has become a phenomenon in France. Born on social networks, spotted after her first two titles Treason and I can’t Dead, it is now establishing itself on streaming listening platforms or on YouTube as the new phenomenon of RnB. Since this success, Wejdene decided to stop going to high school to devote himself to music. “I’m going to first management and administration, but I’m going to do it remotely, that doesn’t interest me apart from English. School isn’t concrete enough. My mother always tells me school, school, school … but today, the music takes all the place”, she concludes in the columns of the Parisian.
Born in Seine-Saint-Denis in 2004, Wejdene is now 18 years old. She was therefore just 16 when she found success with her first song, first published on the social network Tik Tok, Anissa. From her age, she will take the title of her first album, released in the fall of 2020: 16.
“This life, I did not expect it”, sings Wejdene in Life of ataken from his very first album, 16, released on Friday, September 25, 2020. It must be said that the rise of this young woman, no one had seen it coming, she was so fast. From TikTok to television sets, for Wejdene, there was only one step. Well, six months. It all starts on this famous social network, particularly used by young people and which has 6.5 million active users in France, according to Harris Interactive. On TikTok, thanks to a challenge launched by Wejdene, the success of the single Anissa is dazzling and will quickly be certified platinum. To the point that even Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of France Insoumise, could not escape it and gratified the French with a parody to challenge the graduates. “There, I was shocked, frankly, what the hell am I doing in a political debate?”, she comments in Le Parisien.
The clip of the song Anissa chained the millions of views on YouTube and now exceeds the bar of 60 million views. On the cover of 16, the artist from Seine-Saint-Denis and who still lives with his parents in Essonne, appears as President of the Republic, sitting on the desk of the Elysée. The Scrapbook 16 signed to Caroline, a Universal label, has twelve tracks, including, of course, the singles Anissa and coconut. All this, always done alongside Feneu, the producer of Wejdene. And then ? “It’s fine to have a buzz, to be the girl of the moment, but at some point, I won’t be the girl of the moment anymore, so I tell myself, I have to stay, that I keep my buzz “, explains Wejdene to the Parisian.
The secret of the popularity of the title Anissa which launched the dazzling career of Wejdene? Words. Or rather, a mistake in French that challenges: “You out of my sight.” A short phrase that has become a meme on the Internet and which is accelerating the Wejdene phenomenon, which has been difficult to pass over in recent months. “For me, it was a normal sentence, but apparently not… Although my artistic director had told me that there was a problem and that it was not being said. But since he was the only one to have told me that, I said to myself that it was he who did not know what he was saying…”, explains the young woman to the Parisian.