Solène Leroux 6:21 a.m., July 8, 2022, modified at 6:21 a.m., July 8, 2022
The artist Ibrahim Maalouf is releasing a new album, "Capacity to love", "very very rich in collaborations" since there will be one to three guests per song.
In "Culture Médias" Thursday, the trumpeter revealed that an American star was among the guests, and she even closes the album with a poem.
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"I don't rest much, but I have the chance to do a job that I love. So, I work without counting."
A passion for his work that Ibrahim Maalouf put to the benefit of his latest album.
The Franco-Lebanese producer and composer releases
Capacity to Love
.
Its particularity: "There will be one, two or three guests per song", confides the artist at the microphone of Olivier Benkemoun in
Culture Médias
.
"It's an album that is very, very rich in collaborations, I think I've never made an album with so many collaborations", confirms Ibrahim Maalouf, before revealing a "scoop".
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"There is even Sharon Stone who puts a poem at the end", she "closes my album", details Ibrahim Maalouf.
"We enter via the speech of the dictator of Charlie Chaplin, in his film
The Dictator
, and we end with Sharon Stone who concludes with a text that she wrote herself for the album".
According to him, "we enter a cinematic world in which there is an ideal of the world in which I would like to live, this world where we are all capable of loving each other despite our differences".
A theme that runs throughout the album.
A common knowledge
Returning to the origin of the collaboration with the famous actress of
Basic Instinct
, the artist explains "that she followed [her] Instagram account, as she follows many accounts".
From time to time, the American leaves a few comments under the publications of Ibrahim Maalouf.
"I answered him once by saying to him: 'Thank you, it's really you? From there was born a bond", he narrates.
The two personalities also have an acquaintance in common.
"She also knows Quincy Jones well, with whom I have worked for a few years now, and whose box manages me in the United States," he says.
"I contacted her, I made her listen to music. She said to me: 'I love it, can I put a text on it?'" And "obviously", concludes the trumpeter, he accepted.