Two days after the publication of his autobiography Renaissances, the art of building on ruinsCyril Kamar was a guest of Léa Salamé in What a century! on France 2 this Saturday April 20, 2024. Just like Ibrahim Maalouf, Cyril Kamar was born in 1980 in Beirut so he grew up in the middle of the war before he became a famous person in the music industry. At the age of 11, his family reluctantly left the country and took refuge in Canada. But his childhood left him scarred. In his book he writes: “I was born in a powder magazine and I took it with me“.
Children collecting shrapnel
Today, the war still drags his nights through nightmares, and the sound of fireworks is unbearable for him. Although he became a hip hop star at the age of 15 in Canada, the fame did not help him heal from the inside. “Adolescence, for me, is a dangerous cocktail: the clothes, the weapons… I did a short stint in prison“, revealing the man known to the French under the pseudonym K-Maro. He was questioned on this subject by Read Salamewho was a representative of Is shy replied: “It wasn’t really bad, it was a short time… It was always too much. I think I had to learn to repress memories, to get angry, to take away violence. Because when we grow up in a war, surrounded by weapons… Our childhood game was to collect shell casings or shrapnel. And if a piece of the serial number was on it, it was unbelievable, it was a collection, you had to keep it!“.
From anger to violence
“As we grow older, while living in America or France, we realize how terrible history is, the same, in turning shrapnel into an object collection and make it look normal. So all this must have gone through a special channel. I didn’t like to step forward, I didn’t accept authority. Inevitably, I gave a slap or two and sometimes, I realized with anger the injustice. I have never been violent with relatives, friends, with one of my friends or my wife. It has never occurred to me to be unnecessarily violent“, specified the author and performer of the hits Femme like U etc Let’s go.
2024-04-21 15:13:24
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