With HK, we dance.
Again.
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HK and the Saltimbanks.
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By: Hortense Volle
3 min
For SessionLab, Hortense Volle met Kaddour Hadadi, the singer and the writer of the group HK and the Saltimbanks.
The author of the song
Danser encore looks
back on the genesis of this song, which has gone viral, and on its fight for cultural and social urgency.
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As he sings on
Petite Terre
, his 7th album, Kaddour Hadadi, better known under the name of HK, is
"a Roubaisien de Bergerac"
.
Hear: a child of a Kabyle immigrant who grew up in Roubaix, in the north of France, and who now lives in Bergerac in the Dordogne, much further south.
Former member of the very rap MAP (Ministry of Popular Affairs), HK, 44, is the initiator of the group HK and the Saltimbanks: French song tinged with blues, reggae, chaâbi (Algerian popular music) and hip hop too.
Author of four novels and a comic strip, HK is an activist-storyteller decidedly in tune with his time.
In 2011, he signed
On loose nothing
, a song taken up, in France, in all demonstrations, from the Labor Law to that on Global Security.
10 years later, he is the author of
Danser encore
.
Posted on December 18, 2020,
this title has been viewed more than 2,600,000 times since on YouTube
and
has become, in France and in Europe, the rallying hymn of those who believe that culture is essential to our lives.
To understand this
"joyous and moving revolt"
, SessionLab met HK in a square in Paris.
Between two trains, it tells the incredible story of
Danser encore
and redistributes to your ears all the positive waves it has received since its release.
HK Official Site / Facebook / Instagram / YouTube
Title broadcast in the podcast:
To dance again
(2020)
Tell them we love each other, tell them we sow
(2021)
Extracts from the
Petite Terre
album
(2020):
Les Fainéants sont dans la rue
;
The end of the ego the beginning of the us
;
So we change
Extracts from the album
L'empire de papier
(2017):
Refugee
;
Ubuntu
Extracts from the
Citizens of the World
album
(
2011
):
Salam Alaykoum
;
International Identity
;
We'll never be the Beatles
;
We don't let go
;
Makeshift Saltimbanques
During our conversation with HK we mentioned:
- His latest novel:
Without hatred, without weapons, without violence
published in October 2020 by Riveneuve editions
- The various flasmobs or covers of
Danser encore
and in particular:
Flashmob Gare du Nord - March 4, 2021
Tanz im kreis (Lepzig)
Dancing again
HK Caraibe
Treat more
Feat Alee, Corinne Masiero, Rennes and Nice CHU caregivers:
We will add this song-signed version by "Les petits mains" posted online since our interview.
- Pierre Perret who, from the height of his 86th spring, has taken out his poet's pen several times over the past year with
Les confinis
first and more recently with
Le virus à maman
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