Brahim

Brahim already has quite a past behind him. It's also a past that has, to a large extent, been played out in front of the television cameras. He became known on Idol and made an eye-catching appearance at Eurosong. And these are not things that he regrets. Better still, they actually mean that these days we no longer have to explain who Brahim is and how his charisma is able to fill a hall and the drive he brings with him when he stands on a stage. Only, in the long run, people used to have the impression that Brahim is heard of mainly when there is a talent quest on television.

But that was then.
And that time has gone.

Nowadays Brahim gives us a more grown-up, more international sound. The boy of yesteryear has become a man. Someone with new goals and different aspirations. "In the old days, I allowed myself to be led by others too often," he says. "And I did what I was told because that's what I thought I had to do. Now I realize that I don't need any gimmicks or a whole circus to be who I am." And it's true: anyone listening to his music can hear a performer who now has sufficient self-confidence to be able to sail the course he has set himself without being complex about it. And this takes him resolutely towards soul, R&B and contemporary sounds, genres that he has always enjoyed since he was knee-high to a grasshopper.
At the age of eight Brahim could already play the guitar and he was barely twelve when a clip of Lenny Kravitz showed him how music was to define the rest of his life. And this time around, Brahim puts his mark on his music as a composer, lyricist and musician with equal ease.

"Anyone who wants to stand up and be counted for anything also has to be able to talk about it"