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Music BELGIUM Stromae By Sara and Causette Hello everybody ! Our topic for this first E-Mag magazine is STROMAE. At the end of this article, you’ll know everything about him. Everybody in Belgium knows all Stromae’ he’s a compositor and write songs for songs. But do they know him well ? other singers. Stromae, whose real name is Paul Van Between 2009-2011, he releases his first Haver, was born in March 1985 in album ‘Cheese‘, whose the most popular Brussels. His mother is belg and his song is ‘Alors on danse‘, that became father rwandan. very famous in a few weeks and won an How has he begun his career ? NRJ Music Award for the ‘Belgian At the age of eleven Stromae already Francophone musical revelation of 2009?. showed an interest in music and attended In 2013 he come back with a new album ‘l’Académie Musicale de Jette’, where he ‘Racine Carée‘. He shows us an other face studied music history and learned to play of his talent. In this new album, there are the drums, this was his first experience a l r e a d y t w o p o p u l a r s o n g s : ‘Formidable‘&’Papaoutai‘. with music theory. In 2000, he’s officially c a l l e d Stomae (a syllablic inversion of “Maestro”) B e t w e e n 2000-2008, Stromae is an belgian artist who becomes more and more popular. Maybe one day he’ll be famous in all the world. We wish him good luck and we recommend you to go listening his music. Perhaps you’ll become a big fan too …