VHere is news that even the most generous predictions did not see coming. Just ten years after its last hit, Diam’s will make its big public comeback. The ex-rapper will present the documentary Salam (“Peace” in Arabic), which she co-directed with Houda Benyamina, as well as with Anne Cissé, during the 75th ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival, which will take place from May 17 to 28.
In the press release from the production company BrutX, it is indicated that Mélanie Georgiades, whose real name is, “tells herself with an open heart”: “For the first time facing the camera, she confides in glory, psychiatry, the quest meaning and his conversion to Islam. She takes us in the footsteps of Diam’s and reveals in this intimate and modest story the secrets of her story.
Ten years of scarcity
It must be said that the singer stopped her career and any media appearance in 2012, a few years after converting to Islam, before leaving to settle in Saudi Arabia in 2020. Friday, April 29, the rumor of the big comeback of the interpreter of “La Boulette” had swelled after Augustin Trapenard claimed that “new films could be added to the official selection, including an unpublished documentary signed by the queen of all queens, the diamond of all diamonds , the former rapper Diam’s in person. It’s now official, Diam’s is back. Even if it’s not for music, her fans will be happy to see her again after all these years.
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