• Young piano virtuoso born in the northern districts of Marseille, Mourad signs a second album with Universal Music.

  • In "Little Brother", he who has the support of big brothers of Marseille rap recounts in song his crazy rise, which made him "from the city to the TV sets".

    His album also alternates with instrumentals.

Still a high school student and a lucidity that makes him say these kinds of sentences: “There is a story to tell, it's not every day that a child from La Castellane comes to sit at the piano. »This story, Mourad wanted to reclaim it with« Petit Frère », his second album released by Universal Music. The young prodigy from the northern districts of Marseille, revealed by a video that made the buzz on Twitter in 2018, is not content to twirl on the keys of the piano, as he knows so well how to do. He puts his voice on pieces with more contemporary notes, alternating songs and instrumentals.

"A more urban turn" and an "album that leaves the spotlight and is punctuated by hip-hop beats and electronic echoes", writes his record company.

In "At the heart of my hall", the second track of the album, we rather heard accents à la Stromae in this way of phrasing "it's about football and chick all night, iphone in hand is always the same story ”.

“I'm not just a pianist, it was important for me to say that I'm a complete musician, I can put my voice down,” he confides.

There is also the desire to express myself, to speak, to tell my story.

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"In the playground, it fires with real bullets"

He puts simple words, almost at the height of children, about the violence that once swept through his school grounds: “In the playground, people are firing live ammunition. The prisoners' ball is no longer a game, ”he chants on a Chopin nocturnal. It was the next day that a musician took out her accordion, because at that time, there was only that to do to soothe the children. And that Mourad's astonishing musical ear has come to light. "That's where the music started," he rewinds. After the song, there was the revelation of the piano.

"Young people today are either you move around, you go to school and you try to do something, or you go down to the bottom of your city, you do your trafficking," Mourad also says.

At the age of 14, I had this trick of telling myself we must go further.

"" I went from the city to the TV sets, "he sings in" Fantaisie Impromptue ", the song that closes his album, and where he does not hide the comments not always benevolent on social networks.

"There was no transition, I lived it well," he says.

I try to tell myself, stay humble.

In order not to take the big head, I have people around me.

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“We're behind, don't give up.

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There is also the support of the “big brothers” of Marseille rap, such as Sat from the Fonky Family, Alonzo or Soprano, and Jok'Air with whom he signs a duet on his album. "They tell me you're the little brother, we're behind, don't give up. It is also the message that I want to convey. "The rest, he sees it as a succession of meetings, discoveries and he hopes for concerts to relive the thrill he experienced this evening at the Stade de France, where he played for the final of the Top 14." My name is Mourad, I come from the northern districts of Marseille, ”he said that evening to Emmanuel Macron, ie the exact words of the first piece of his disc.

For the time being, he is preparing to play on the Telethon set, a cause close to his heart, he who became known on the piano of the Timone hospital in Marseille, where he frequented the pediatric service. .

“Due to my chronic illness, I have been going to the hospital since I was born.

I needed other young people next to me who give me confidence, who tell me to move on.

That's what I'm giving back, I'll do it all my life.

“For the Telepthon, he will be playing the piano, but a priori not singing.

As if he still had to convince that he was not only a virtuoso of black and white keys.

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