Camille Yembe, the new Belgian pop sensation, Raymond Devos fan: News

She has “the taste of telling stories”: new head of a pop without borders, the Belgian-Congolese singer Camille Yembe has been detonating since “plastic”, first musical steps assumed for this fan of eloquence competitions and humorist Raymond Devos.

Everything has been going fast since Camille Yembe removed her “plastic skin”. Consequently, the one she had put on to “avoid breaking everything”, as she sings in “Plastic”, title of her first eponymous EP (mini album) released in early June.

At 28 years old. For example, she breathed a breath of freshness on a pop at the crossroads, melodious and a bit rock, which also pulls towards rap. Nevertheless, The Belgian star Stromae, as the mixture of styles, validated this young French -speaking push.

The native of Brussels, daughter of a Belgian mother and a camille yembe, new belgian pop Congolese father, secretly dreamed of this life. Meanwhile, “I was doing interviews in front of my mirror. Nevertheless, I sang by imagining an audience,” smiles this joyful tornado with long dreadlocks.

Less than two years ago. For example, she still oscillated between her artistic aspirations and the search for financial stability of young active. In addition, Until the day she decides to tackle her job in a call center.

“It seems to be simple. but investing in yourself and believing in yourself is a step that is mentally difficult,” she said. Especially since “music is not an accessible universe. You have to have time, means, contacts.”

She discovers “on the heap”. understands “the workings of the industry” and learns that “it is not in a snap of the fingers that everything happens”.

Its breakthrough is confirmed this summer: many festivals have camille yembe, new belgian pop programmed it. including the huge Dour in Belgium, where it must occur on Sunday, and the feast of humanity in September.

– “Auditious pleasure” –

“Music was still my secret garden”. slips the singer-songwriter, who, younger, “ate all the seasons” of the musical tele-hook “X Factor” by projecting themselves in place of the candidates.

As a teenager, she clings to this “life buoy” when she leaves the nest. She also begins to devour eloquence competition videos, made in suburbs.

“Like a podcast, I put it in the morning, I made up, I listened to the eloquence competitions. Really, it was just a hearing pleasure to hear the words, the French language”, she rewinds.

“I saw people I could identify with, but who had a way of speaking sometimes superior to mine. And I said to myself, Wow, it’s beautiful, it camille yembe, new belgian pop can also exist,” explains the artist.

According to her research, she comes across the sketches of Raymond Devos, master of the “flagrant delirium” who died in 2006.

“And … thunderbolt. But who can challenge Raymond Devos? For me. if he was there, he would eat the +rap game +, because he is too strong in terms of the turn of sentences!”, Lance Camille Yembe.

– stéfi strain, tiacola –

She herself begins music through writing, as an author.

Thanks to a residence. she learns to bring her texts to life “through other voices”, working first with the singer and actress Stéfi Celma (“Ten percent”), then with French artists from the hip-hop sphere like Eva and the successful rapper Tiakola.

At the start. “I was afraid that it would suck my inspiration a little and that there camille yembe, new belgian pop are no more for me,” she recalls.

This brewing produces the opposite: “I take a little bit of each person. each experience and it only grows my project”, praises the artist.

Result: at the beginnings of her career, Camille Yembe surprises as much by her spontaneity as her maturity.

“I have so much to say again!” Says the young woman. who positions her music between “a diary” and a speech “of the order of affirmation”, capable of resonating in others.

She says she is without pressure for the rest, already harnessed to a disc planned for 2026.

Posted on July 17 at 9:06 p.m. AFP

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