Four years later AliveAmel Bent will return this Friday, May 16 with a new project entitled Midnight. An introspective album in which the singer falls the mask and surrenders without restrictions in his life as an artist and mother.
This need to trust him after a tragic event: two days after the start of the recordings, Amel Bent lost his grandmother, to whom he dedicates the song Mima In his new album.
This test will deeply alter the singer’s creative process. While initially an album inspired by human adventures experienced through Alive And his tour, this project finally becomes, as the forties approached, a true introspection, a sincere and personal history of life.
“I was really convinced that I was in my impulse from the previous album and lost my grandmother on the night of my second study session to record ‘Midnight A’. I stopped everything to be with my family (…) I absolutely did not know when I was going to resume the pen,” he entrusts Amel Bent to BFMTV.
“Even if I wanted to make a modern album, I had to make an album of my age and my soul, that is, with what I had just crossed and how I had pushed me into my certainties. I, at that moment of my life, looked at things differently,” he adds.
Song in your children
Sure MidnightAmel Bent also connects with writing, an approach that he had not undertaken from his album At 20released in 2007. She addresses intimate issues: her relatives, her mother, her daily life … in Mental downloadFirst single from the album, she lists the many responsibilities that weigh on her in everyday life as a woman and mother.
“I would like to write a song. And get up early for my children. Remember the bank for the house. Change the curtains of the living room. I would like to talk. Who knows how to listen to me. It’s true, I’m not working in the factory. But sometimes I’m exhausted. 7:10 am, I’m in bed. I don’t close my eyes.
In this album, Amel Bent also dedicates a song to his children, The standardin which he goes through three verses to his two daughters Sofía and Hana and his son Zayn.
Film in Cannes and filmed in 2026
In addition to his album, Amel Bent is on all fronts at this time, with an agenda more than loaded. The artist is about to take his first steps in the movies in the movie. My brotherof Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret, which will be presented at the Cannes Festival this year.
The singer, who acted on May 13 during the Flames ceremony, will also begin from April 2026 that will pass in particular through Lyon, Lille, Bordeaux and Paris, where he will act for the first time in his career at Accor Arena, on April 29, 2026.
Source: BFM TV
