Since 2006, she had her first successes in Toulouse with the Mozartian repertoire, taking on the role of Barbarina Le Nozze di Figaro, under the artistic direction of Gabriel Bacquier. She became a laureate of the Cziffra Foundation in 2011 and she will be awarded with Italy’s prestigious international Arca d’Oro prize for young artistes in 2013. She won the first prize in the Luciano Pavarotti Giovani 2010 competition (thus lauded by the Italian press critic Gianni Gori as «a talent of Gold!»), and also won the first prize in the 2011 Anselmo Colzani international singing competition. She holds a diploma in singing performance from the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, London (ABRSM) and has gained enormously from the musical and technical counsels of Jorge Chaminé, Teresa Berganza, Thomas Quasthoff and Grace Bumbry. The awards ceremony will be broadcasted live on France 3 (or online at site ) from the Grand Theatre in Aix en Provence, France on Monday, February 3, 2014.Īfter five years of studying Cell Biology and Genetics at the university in her native country, the Franco-Nigerian soprano Omo Bello entirely devoted herself to music, studying singing at the Conservatoire de Paris – CNSMDP, in the class of Peggy Bouveret, and enriched her repertoire with Jeff Cohen, Susan Manoff and Olivier Reboul. It is very easy to vote, and online voting is from January 6 to 26, 2014: Online: go to to vote for her. This was the true beginning of the Stromae phenomenon.The public gets to vote the winner of this award. The success of this album was astonishing and Stromae's music went international. On 21 June 2010, Stromae brought out his first album, "Cheese". At that time Stromae created Mosaert, a label of his own which was a part of Universal Music France, and he brought out two singles: "Alors on danse" and "Up Saw Liz". Julie Van Heuverswijn and Vincent Verbelen (who was in charge of Musical Programming at NRJ at the time) decided to include Stromae in their programme. In 2009, Stromae worked as an intern at NRJ, a French radio station that is also broadcasted in Belgium. In this period, Stromae also did a series of short funny educational YouTube videos called "Les leçons de Stromae" showing viewers how he composed his songs. Stromae signed with the music labels Because Music and Kilomaitre in 2006 and either wrote or co-wrote songs for Melissa M, Kery James, Anggun and others. However Stromae quickly changed his mind and decided to study cinema at the National Institute for Radio Science and Cinematography (INRACI) instead, specialising in Sound Engineering. During this period, he brought out his first EP, "Juste un cerveau, un flow, un fond et un mic" which had 4 tracks on it. To pay his tuition fees, he worked part-time at Quick (a Belgian fast food chain). Two years later, the pair parted ways and Stromae chose to continue studying cinema at a private university. Aged 18, he made a mark on the music industry when he brought out the rap and video "Faut qu’t’arrêtes le rap" with his friend J.E.D.I, the two friends formed a group called "Suspicion". Initially, Stromae chose "Opsmaestro" as his stage name but later changed it to "Stromae" (an anagram of "maestro"). Later on, for the final few years of high school, Stromae was sent to Saint-Paul Godinne boarding school. Stromae and his siblings (he has three brothers and one sister) were raised by their mother. Thanks to his mother, he was already influenced by foreign music at this early stage. In his youth, Stromae played football and had drumming lessons as well as lessons in music theory. Paul Van Haver (better known by his stage name Stromae) is a Belgian singer-songwriter-composer born in 1985 in Brussels to a Belgian mother and a Rwandan father.
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