Stromae has always been drawn to the idea of embodying characters in his songs. On “Formidable,” a single from his 2013 sophomore album Racine carreé (French for Square Root), the Belgian ...

In this exclusive live performance, Belgian singer Stromae performs his hit song “Formidable” with the backing track composed on set in real time. The song tells the story of a young man who, freshly ...

Stromae (an inversion of the syllables of the word “maestro”) is one of few Francophone artists to have repeatedly topped multiple European charts and achieve a significant measure of global fame.