The departure festival of Grand Corps Malade at the Francos de Montréal

This Friday evening, Grand Corps Malade will put an end point on his tour Reflections During the Francos of Montreal. In front of Festivals Place, he will give a big free concert as goodbye to say thank you to this city of Montreal that he is about to leave after having settled down, with his family, for a year.

To meet in the heart of Montreal in front of many, many Montrealers, it will be quite strong to end my year like thatsays the French slammer-singer-poet, who chose Montreal for this parenthesis abroad with his wife and their two children.

I met a lot of people during that year and it’s as if a little all these people were going to be there, he adds. It’s a nice wink to have a starting party, even if I haven’t left yet.

Future collaborations with Quebec?

This Very nice year Montrealer, great sick body will evoke him between the titles he will perform on stage, he who likes to address his audience during his shows.

If he was surrounded by three musicians during the concerts he gave earlier this year in Quebec and Ottawa, he decided that they would be twice as numerous, including brass players and a cellist, for this performance on the main scene of Francos.

With them, great sick body will sing pieces of his eighth and more recent album, Reflectionsreleased in the fall of 2023, as well as its classics, of which HAS Montréal. Whenever he performs in front of a Quebec audience, he offers him this 2010 text written in tribute to the city and set to music by Yann Perreau.

During his Montreal year, Grand Corps Malade got to know Quebec music better, whether by listening to Fred Fortin, Gab Bouchard, Lou-Adriane Cassidy and Klô Pelgag or by meeting composers from here as well as artists like rapper Samian and the young pop singer Billie on the page, who made the first part of her Quebec concerts.

Contacts are made and there may be collaborations in the futureunderlines the one who interpreted Fred Pellerin’s words on his disc Il we will stay That In 2015.

New album with Quebec flavor

Before swapping Montreal sweetness for Parisian madness, the artist intends to take the way to the studio to record the first songs of his new album. All year old, in France, I will be on this album project, but he will have a Quebec colorhe said.

International news requires, this new opus will have a small social and political taste. I have a text on women. I think the world would be better if they directed it a little morehe explains.

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Grand Corps Malade will also tackle lighter and personal themes there, but he plans to devote a new song to Montreal.

I will not be able to do otherwise, he said. HAS Montréalit was the Montreal seen by a somewhat tourist French who comes there from time to time, but after a year here, I want to talk a little more about the atmosphere of Montreal and also what a winter is in Montreal, because it is still an adventure.

The months that have just passed will feed his inspiration not only for this next album but also for other creations.

I met musicians and I lived in another place, another approach to everyday life. The rhythm is not at all the same in Montreal as in Paris, with other people, people who have their expressions … All that will necessarily be on future songs.

Soon 20 years of career

In 2026, it will be 20 years since Grand Corps Malade set foot in Montreal for the first time. It will also be two decades that he excels in touching hearts by playing with words.

Write two books and co -bore three films, including the last one, Mr. Aznavour, was seen by more than two million people in France, helped him renew himself.

To be inspired by other disciplines makes it possible to approach a new album with new materialsexplains the one who aims to shoot another film, but not immediately.

I don’t have a recipe to last, but I think the desire is the first engine. And then, I am lucky to have created a loyal audiencehe adds.

Whenever I come here, the public responds present in the concerts. Now it’s up to me to keep doing things that he likeshe says.