Took me a few nights to get through, but I have been watching this Stromae concert from Montreal, from 2015. Looks like it would've been a pretty good show to go to actually (particularly for French speakers):

I've only recently discovered Stromae. Thanks VS!

Stromae 'Papaputai' http://videosift.com/video/Pretty-neat-ElectroRumba

Vive Stromae! Vive la Belgique!

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Stromae gets my upvote. He's pretty damn good

From http://aveugles.org/felix-impressionne/ this was filmed at the summer camp of the Fondation des Aveugles du Québec (Quebec Foundation for the Blind). (and therefore *canada)

Felix was born 3 months premature and his retinas detached due to oxygen toxicity at birth, and at first they were unsure if he would ever talk... so his family is very happy that he has turned out to have such a talent for music.

Felix loves BB King, of course, but also Les Colocs, Bernard Adamus, Stromae, Robert Johnson and Eddie Lang. He takes advantage of the summer camps to bring his guitar and put on a show.

It also says some other stuff about how the camp provides opportunities for blind children like Felix, and they hope he continues to flourish through music.

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today's lesson on the international music scene: this guy's name is Stromae (which comes from inverting the syllables of "maestro" which is a practice in French slang called "verlan" which comes from the inverted syllables of "l'envers" which, in French, means "the inverse") who, in this moving bit of performance art, recounts how quickly one can fall from being "wonderful" (fr: formidable) after a breakup. this video has ~30,000,000 views and he has 2 songs in the billboard top 10 France right now. talent. i'm going to get a beer. peace.

The lyrics can easily be linked with Stromae's personnal life: He almost never met his Rwandese father who was eventually killed in the genocide in Rwanda... This back story gives even more depth to this video...