Hip-Hop | ARTE

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At the invitation of French radio station Mouv', heavyweight rapper Josman joins forces with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France to revisit the most emblematic tracks in his repertoire. Josman as you've never heard him before!

Hip Hop Symphony

Josman's most loved cult tracks performed by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.

Josman

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The world's best breakdancers will be at the Théâtre du Châtelet for the 2024 edition of Battle Pro. Experience the competition as if you were there!

International breakdance competition

A competition 100% focussed on breakdance and featuring some of the world's greatest dancers.

Battle Pro 2024

Lala &ce's striking personality and universe make her a unique figure in French rap. She brings tracks from her latest album Solstice to the ARTE Concert Festival.

ARTE Concert Festival 2024 

Lala &ce turn up the heat at Paris' Gaîté Lyrique with their carnal, queer rap.

Lala &ce

Like so many others, Peace Okezie spent his teenage years at parties and raves, forging friendships and relationships that inspired him. His declared musical influences include Bloc Party and the Arctic Monkeys, as well as The Streets and Calvin Harris.

Reeperbahn Festival 2024

Rising star Master Peace's first album was released in 2024 to great fanfare from British critics.

Master Peace

Since the release of her debut album I'm Feeling Hopeful in 2021, Milan Ring hasn't been doing things by halves! Exploring the fields of alternative electronic music in her compositions, she creates ethereal vocal arrangements with her inseparable guitar, which always takes centre stage.

Singer, guitarist and producer Milan Ring is an icon of the Australian RnB renaissance.

Milan Ring

Martha Da'Ro reveals the full sensitivity of her blend of pop and soul at the Europavox Festival. The perfect opportunity to delve into PHILOPHOBIA, her debut album.

Europavox Sessions 2024

Martha Da'Ro's Brussels pop at Europavox.

Martha Da'Ro

Unmissable

A new generation of soul guaranteed to move hearts and bodies: These artists are reinventing the timeless spirit of soul with a contemporary freshness. A fusion of tradition and modernity that embraces you in its magnetic embrace as you discover a resolutely modern soul universe.

Music to seduce the world

A new soul generation moving hearts and bodies with striking contemporary relevance.

Modern Soul

Jazz

Electronic

World

Pop & Rock

Performing Arts

Parcourir les genres

A heartfelt performance from Stivijoes at the Bilbao BBK Live Festival. An artist operating in the hinterland between rap and pop.

Bilbao BBK Live Festival 2024

Bilbao welcomes this sensitive artist, working somewhere between rap and pop.

Stivijoes

ARTE Concert Festival 2024

Nneka captures the hearts of the Journeys Through Music audience with tracks that are as moving as they are fully committed. A performance in the wake of the Back and Forth EP released at the end of 2023.

Journeys Through Music

A striking blend of soul, hip-hop and reggae.

Nneka

Bikôkô is set on propelling soul and R'n'B into a new era. Discover all the freshness of this Barcelona-born Londoner at the ARTE Concert Festival 2024.

Bikôkô, an artist between soul and R'n'B.

Bikôkô

Heart-stopping rhythms, otherworldly melodies and a childlike, carefree yet energetic voice: The winning formula behind tracks like Yebo Mama, a formula that has given this young singer, songwriter and dancer an international audience over the past few years.

The sound of Moonchild Sanelly has a powerful effect on the body and mind: it's so hard not to fall under the spell!

Moonchild Sanelly

Celebrated poet and playright Kae Tempest delivers a sonic wall of stunning lyrical power at La Route du Rock festival 2024.

La Route du Rock 2024

Britain's extraordinary slam-poet laureate performs at La Route de Rock.

Kae Tempest

Sometimes all it takes is one song to become famous overnight. Sexxy Red experienced that with ‘Pound Town’, a track that earned her a lot of love and a fair amount of dislike. Hostility hasn't deterred the rapper, quite the contrary: true to her image as a ‘ghetto diva’, the American rapper says out loud what others dare not think.

splash! Festival 2024

With rapper Sexxy Red, the deep south of the United States comes to Splash! 2024.

Sexyy Red

Lithuania's RnB sensation Free Finga already had a brush with fame as a child pop star in his home country. He returned to music in adulthood as a way of working through personal dramas with a modern, RnB sound brimming with catchy hooks and social angst. 

Europavox Sessions 2023

Lithuania's Free Finga brings his thoroughly modern RnB sound to Europavox.

Free Finga

Maria José Llergo is one of a wave of Spanish artists giving flamenco a new lease of life. She will be presenting ULTRABELLEZA, her first full-length album, at the Bilbao BBK Live Festival.

Maria José Llergo combines flamenco and hip-hop for the Bilbao BBK Live Festival.

Maria José Llergo

Fugees singer Lauryn Hill gave a concert in the Vatican in 2003. But why has it been so hushed up?

Lauryn Hill

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Dry your eyes mate, it's the return of Mike Skinner and his mighty lyrical 2-step project The Streets. A set at Elbjazz 2024 filled with everyman tales of British life over the past 20 years.

Elbjazz Festival 2024

Mike Skinner returns to the stage with his back catalogue of tales from middle England.

The Streets

Journeys Through Music welcomes a special guest: Ana Tijoux, one of the biggest names in Spanish-language rap. The Franco-Chilean musician will be performing tracks from her fifth album, Vida.

Journeys Through Music invite one of the biggest names in Spanish-language rap to the Cabaret Sauvage in Paris.

Ana Tijoux

Discover the three Afro-Ukrainian sisters of Fo Sho and their Slavic hip-hop in this session filmed on the fringes of the 2022 Europavox festival.

Europavox 2022

The three Afro-Ukrainian sisters of Fo Sho in session at the 2022 Europavox festival.

Fo Sho

The No Guidnce phenomenon arrives at Eurosonic 2024, where these four Londoners unleash the full richness of their R'n'B-tinged vocal harmonies.

Eurosonic 2024

Eurosonic 2024 floats away on the vocal harmonies of No Guidnce.

No Guidnce

 Move to the hectic beats and gentle flows of Swedish rapper Raghd. A selection of songs from her performance at Eurosonic 2024. 

An extract from the performance of Swedish rapper Raghd at Eurosonic 2024.

Raghd

Swiss rapper Nathalie Froehlich knows her way around an aggressive beat and pulls no punches in her full-on performances. The stage at Eurosonic is no exception; prepare for a KO. 

Switzerland's angriest female rapper arrives at Eurosonic.

Nathalie Froehlich

Have you always wanted to go to a gig in a bathrobe? Well now is your chance: Hip-hop duo Uzi Freyja performs from the La Fontaine steam baths in Le Mans, France.

Hammam Session

Uzi Freyja

How did Tupac go from being gangster king to the paragon of the underdog? TAPE tells the story.

Tupac

MC Solaar, perhaps France’s most famous rapper, revisits his greatest hits accompanied by the New Big Band Project, the combination of the Orchestre national d’Île de France with jazz group The Ice Kream.
Programme
Lune solaire
Qui sème le vent
La fin justifie les moyens
Sequelles
Obsolete
Quand le soleil devient froid
Gangster moderne
A temps partiels
Victimes de la mode
In god we trust
Inch'allah
La concubine de l'hémoglobine
Nouveau western
Armand est mort
La devise
Bouge de là
Bouge de là (reprise)
Les boys bandent
La musique adoucit les mœurs
Caroline

With Live Orchestra at the Paris Philharmonie

Perhaps France’s most famous rapper, revisits his greatest hits accompanied by the New Big Band Project, the combination of the Orchestre national d’Île de France with jazz group The Ice Kream.

MC Solaar

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How did Snoop Dogg change from being American public enemy no. 1 to the public’s favourite rapper. TAPE rewinds the life of a genius of personal branding.

Snoop Dogg

Pharrell Williams manages to combine coolness and super-geekdom à la Star Trek. But how?

Pharrell Williams

Pharrell Williams manages to combine coolness and super-geekdom. But how?

MIA gained international recognition in 2007 thanks to Paper Planes. She continues to lobby for a world without walls, and without borders, through her songs.

MIA continues to lobby for a world without walls, and without borders, through her songs

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Booba has a reputation as the bad boy of French rap from the streets, but is it really true?

Booba

French rap duo PNL’s  music video for their track ‘Au DD’ saw the twosome sitting on top of the Eiffel Tower. But were they really there? Internet conspiracies abound.

Provocative, creative, and with an unhealthy interest in vomit, Tyler, the Creator breaks the mould of US rap. But did he really eat that cockroach? TAPE tells all.

Tyler, the Creator

Provocative, an unhealthy interest in vomit, Tyler, the Creator breaks the mould of US rap. But did he really eat that cockroach? TAPE tells all.