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Immortel (song)
"Immortel" (Immortal) is a song hy Congolese singer and rapper Gims. It was released on 25 September 2020 as the second single of his album ''Le Fléau''. On 21 September 2020, he posted a video on these social networks announcing the first single from the album titled Immortel. Video clip The "Immortal" music video has a committed vision as it is inspired by several injustices known to mankind: The death of Lige Daniels, a 16-year-old African American boy. The latter was killed by hanging on 3 August 1920 by the Ku Klux Klan, which accused him of having killed an old woman. The guillotined death of French lawyer, journalist and revolutionary Camille Desmoulins on 5 April 1794, at the age of 34. The murder of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American man, at the hands of Derek Chauvin, a white police officer on 25 May 2020. The altercation between the police and the young people directly alludes to the riots in the French riots, which began in Clichy-sous-Bois following th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gims
Gandhi Alimasi Djuna (born 6 May 1986), known professionally as Maître Gims and more recently just Gims (stylized in all caps), is a Congolese singer, rapper, producer, and songwriter. He grew up in France and currently lives in France and Morocco. He rose to fame as a member of the hip hop group Sexion d'Assaut. He pursued an individual career under the name Maître Gims in 2013. He previously released an extended play in 2006, titled '' Ceux qui dorment les yeux ouverts''. During his career he has worked with several international artists such as Sia, Pitbull, Lil Wayne, Stromae, Maluma, Sting, and others. He has sold over 5 million records, including 3 million albums since the start of his career. He started his solo career in 2013 with the release of his first album, ''Subliminal'' in May on Wati B and Monstre Marin Corporation, which sold over a million copies and peaked at number two in the French album charts. In December he released a reissue titled ''Subliminal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaaris
Armand Okou Gnakouri, known by his stage name Kaaris (, ; stylized as KΛΛRIS), is a French rapper, actor and record producer. Early life Kaaris was raised in Sevran in the Seine-Saint-Denis department, northeast of Paris. Career Kaaris started rapping in 1999, and released his first mixtape in 2001. He returned to his native Ivory Coast for a while, but returned to France after political unrest in the country. In 2007, he released his street album ''43ème Bima'' (pronounced "Quarante-troisième Bima"), that led to signing with a new independent label French Cut Music. However, his meeting with French rapper Booba and producers Therapy gave him his first recording with Booba, "Criminelle league" released as part of Booba's '' Autopsie Vol. 4''. Kaaris had his first charting hit "Kalash", credited to Booba featuring Kaaris appearing in Booba's album ''Futur''. Kaaris co-writes most of his materials in cooperation with a record producer duo, known as Therapy (made up of produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Songs
A (, ; , ) is generally any lyric-driven French song. The term is most commonly used in English to refer either to the secular polyphonic French songs of late medieval and Renaissance music or to a specific style of French pop music which emerged in the 1950s and 1960s. The genre had origins in the monophonic songs of troubadours and trouvères, though the only polyphonic precedents were 16 works by Adam de la Halle and one by Jehan de Lescurel. Not until the ''ars nova'' composer Guillaume de Machaut did any composer write a significant number of polyphonic chansons. A broad term, the word ''chanson'' literally means "song" in French and can thus less commonly refer to a variety of (usually secular) French genres throughout history. This includes the songs of chansonnier, ''chanson de geste'' and Grand chant; court songs of the late Renaissance and early Baroque music periods, ''air de cour''; popular songs from the 17th to 19th century, ''bergerette'', ''brunette'', '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Download
A music download is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a personal computer, portable media player, MP3 player or smartphone. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyrighted material without permission or legal payment. Music downloads are typically encoded with modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) audio data compression, particularly the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) format used by iTunes as well as the MP3 audio coding format. According to a Nielsen report, downloadable music accounted for 55.9 percent of all music sales in the US in 2012."All music sales" refers to albums plus track equivalent albums. A track equivalent album equates to 10 tracks. By the beginning of 2011, Apple's iTunes Store alone made 1.1 billion of revenue in the first quarter of its fiscal year. According to the RIAA, music downloads peaked at 43% of industry revenue in the US in 2012, and has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Slovik
Private Edward Donald Slovik (February 18, 1920January 31, 1945) was an American soldier who was court-martialed and executed for desertion during World War II. He was the first and only US serviceman to have met such a fate since the American Civil War. Although over 21,000 American servicemen were given varying sentences for desertion during World War II, including 49 death sentences, Slovik's death sentence was the only one that was carried out. The case was brought to public attention by the 1954 book ''The Execution of Private Slovik'' by William Bradford Huie, later made into a NBC 1974 television movie. During World War II, 1.7 million courts-martial were held, representing one third of all criminal cases tried in the United States during the same period. Most of the cases were minor, as were the sentences. Nevertheless, a clemency board, appointed by Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson in the summer of 1945, reviewed all general courts-martial where the accused was still i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Stinney
George Junius Stinney Jr. (October 21, 1929 – June 16, 1944) was an African American boy who was wrongfully executed at the age of 14 after being convicted, during an right to a fair trial, unfair trial, for the murders of two white girls – 11-year-old Betty June Binnicker (December 9, 1932 - March 22, 1944), and 8-year-old Mary Emma Thames (March 14, 1936 - March 22, 1944), – in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina. He was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death on a single day in April 1944 and then executed by electric chair on June 16, 1944. A re-examination of Stinney's case began in 2004, and several individuals and the Northeastern University School of Law sought a judicial review. Stinney's murder conviction was vacated judgment, vacated in 2014, with a South Carolina court ruling that he had not received a fair trial, and was thus Wrongful execution, wrongfully executed. Stinney is the youngest American with an exact birth date confirmed to be both Capital punis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soso Maness
Sofien Hakim Manessour (born 23 March 1988 in Marseille Marseille (; ; see #Name, below) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regions of France, region. Situated in the ...), known professionally as Soso Maness (), is a French-Algerian rapper and actor. He has released three albums, ''Rescapé'' in 2019, ''Mistral'' in 2020 and ''Avec le temps'' in 2021. ''Mistral'' reached number 2 on the French Albums Chart. His song "Petrouchka" featuring rapper PLK reached number 1 on the French Singles Chart. Discography Albums Singles Other charting songs Featured in References {{DEFAULTSORT:Soso Maness Rappers from Bouches-du-Rhône 1987 births Living people Musicians from Marseille French people of Algerian descent French male rappers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clichy-sous-Bois
Clichy-sous-Bois () is a commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris. It is located from central Paris.France's suburbs: Two years on " ''''. 8 November 2007. Retrieved on 3 March 2014. Clichy-sous-Bois is not served by any motorway, major road, or railway and therefore continues to be one of the most isolated of Paris' inner suburbs. It is one of the most economically disadvantaged suburbs as well and the 2005 civil unrest and riots began there, which subsequently spread nationwide. Geography Clichy-sous-Bois has an area of with of woods. The woods are remnants of the ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Fléau
''Le fléau'' (English: ''The Plague'' or ''The Scourge'') is the fourth studio album by Congolese-French singer and rapper Gims, released on 4 December 2020 on the TF1 Group and Play Two labels. A reissue entitled ''Les vestiges du fléau'' (English: ''The Remnants of the Scourge'') was published on 28 May 2021. A second reissue titled ''L'Empire de Méroé'' was released on 3 December 2021. Genesis During confinement, Gims announces on a live Instagram a 100% rap album for the month of October 2020. According to some publications on his Instagram, Gims reveals that his album would be an 80% rap album contrary to what had been announced. History On 28 August 2020, Gims published on streaming platforms the single "Yolo". on 2 September 2020, the music video of "Yolo" was released. on 21 September 2020, he posted a video on social networks announcing the first single from the album, " Immortel", for 25 September 2020. On 25 September 2020, Gims released "Immortel", a purely rap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 French Riots
The 2005 French riots was a three-week long period of civil disturbances that took place in Paris#Suburbs, the suburbs of Paris and Urban area (France), other French cities in October and November 2005. These riots involved youth in violent attacks, outbreaks of arson Vehicle fire, of vehicles and Building, public buildings. The unrest started on 27 October at Clichy-sous-Bois, where police were investigating a reported break-in at a building site, and a group of local youths scattered in order to avoid interrogation. Three of them hid in an electrical substation where two died from electrocution, resulting in a power blackout (It was not established whether police had suspected these individuals or a different group, wanted on separate charges). The incident ignited rising tensions about youth unemployment and police harassment in the poorer housing estates, and there followed three weeks of rioting throughout France. A state of emergency was declared on 8 November, later extende ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
