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. The performance that skyrocketed his career dates back to an appearance in 2018 on French radio station Skyrock FM and its Planete Rap show. A freestyle titled “Guerilla” which has been viewed an incredible 351M times on YouTube since, combined many unique appealing aspects of his work. From that moment Soolking has continued to release huge singles that have cemented his place in the French mega-star pop firmament.