We know that Rahim Redcar is an unpredictable artist, always several steps ahead! In 2024, the artist formerly known as Christine and the Queens himself leaked his album “Hopecore” during the summer, before officially releasing it in the fall. At the same time, the singer ranted about his absence at the Olympics… before singing during the opening ceremony of the Paralympics. But why this change of heart? “ It was the Paralympics, a director that I respected, a different philosophy. It wasn’t the same tone. I don’t think we connected in the same way. [avec Thomas Jolly] » attests the interpreter of “Deep Holes” in a masterclass for the “Mardis de l’ESSEC” broadcast on LCP.
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“I wanted to free myself from Christine”
During this long interview, Rahim Redcar returned in detail to his career and his multiple musical turns. This notably involved different changes of stage names, from Christine and the Queens to Redcar via Chris. “ Music really saved my life. When I was 20, I went through an episode of despair related to my incarnation. In the first songs I wrote, there is “IT” where I talk about seizing the masculine for myself » analyzes the singer from Nantes: “ I remained Christine throughout the first cycle, but from the second album, having clarified myself a lot on stage, I wanted to free myself from Christine because I wanted to approach the masculine “. The death of his mother, which occurred in 2019, was “ philosophically, humanly and artistically a great stage of [sa] vie » : « It made me push further the quest for music and my identity. And now the search for my soul ».
“I was going to have to emancipate myself from my female body”
But then, why did he decide to now be called Rahim, a name which sparked controversy on social networks? “ Rahim came to me as a healing name when I went on a shamanic journey to understand what had happened to me, around the writing of the album “Paranoia. Angels. True Love” » indicates the artist behind the hits “Saint Claude” and “Christine”: “ I deliberately wrote to celebrate the dead and seek to overcome a disgust with this material life. And a certain suspicion that my masculine was my future and that I was going to have to emancipate myself in my female body while remaining there with love ».
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“Rahim Redcar is the person I will stay”
For him, it’s by listening “ chronologically » his discography that we can understand: “ It is about becoming. It’s not really an armada of characters, more like stages of becoming. Christine I think about it, but it’s my past. And Rahim Redcar is, I hope, the person I will stay with. I don’t know if I will have much [d’autres] names elsewhere “. Indeed, the one who says “ produce musical poems » really likes this Rahim Redcar costume: “ I have the impression that we are moving towards stabilization, anchoring and a lot of work. It took me a while to get people to accept this development which was not always understood, which I understand. (…) To keep my masculine and have a woman’s body. (…) These are questions that create more tension and resistance. I don’t know if Bowie experienced states of grace in each incarnation. Sometimes people get attached to a specific incarnation and cling to it… “. And the artist concludes by saying that he is “ ravi » to finally be himself.
