In three years, the rapper has risen to the top of the music charts. Very rare in the media – he made his television debut in the show Quelle époque! from France 2 on October 12 – Werenoi is enjoying a meteoric rise thanks to social networks and sophisticated digital marketing. The artist appeared on YouTube in 2021. His channel now has nearly 600,000 subscribers. In 2023, during the first Flames ceremony, at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, which crowned Aya Nakamura and Gazo artists of the year, Werenoi won the Flame for Male Revelation.
Published two weeks ago, the video for his new single Petuniasfilmed in the Gulf of Saint-Tropez, peaked at more than 4 million views. Insane.
At the Zénith de Lille on November 6
It was during the night that the artist’s team communicated about his coming to Lille as part of a partnership with the brand FootKorner which regularly creates the event in Lillenium around French rap stars. This time, the Lille Sud shopping center was white hot for the arrival of Werenoi. The security service had a lot to do to contain the hysteria of the fans (and some discomfort), many of whom had been present since the morning. Average age: 15-25 years old. Fans, sometimes much younger, galvanized by the sound system and a long wait…