Abderraouf Derradji aka Soolking is one of the world’s biggest French-speaking pop stars, having achieved a staggering 13 billion streams on his global catalogue. 

Born in Algeria, Soolking was a dancer and even a drummer in a rock band before moving to Paris where his rap and R&B career took off. What’s even more amazing to an Anglophone audience is the polyglot intercontinental fusion of styles that characterizes his massively popular music. Addictively melodic, it’s a mélange of French road rap, R&B, reggaeton and raï.