Vitaa & Slimane

On December 17, Vitaa & Slimane brought the house down at Plenitude Arena. A look back at an unforgettable evening.

A tour full of love

For the final date of the VersuS Tour, the duo behind beloved tracks such as Ça va ça vient, Avant toi and À fleur de toi chose Plenitude Arena as the place to meet their audience one last time.

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Surprise guests

Invited by the two artists, Camille Schneyder and Sola, from the 2018 edition of The Voice Belgique, took to the stage of Europe’s largest venue to open the show. They also shared a special moment with Vitaa & Slimane on the track Baladé, with each of the two young singers forming a team with one of the two headliners.

Singer Amel Bent was also part of the evening. The performer behind the iconic Ma philosophie surprised the crowd by joining her two friends on stage for one song, À la vie, taking the opportunity to express her love for them in front of the entire audience. That enchanted interlude was one of the most memorable sequences of a night already running high on emotion.

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An exceptional concert

Throughout the concert, which lasted over two and a half hours, Vitaa & Slimane delivered a performance of the highest order, giving the thousands of fans who came to cheer them on a total of 24 songs. Among them, longtime devotees were treated to a live rendition of the iconic Confession, originally recorded with rapper Diam’s.

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A Celebrated Album

Released in August 2019, VersuS sent Vitaa and Slimane crashing into the charts and earned them a platinum record within just two months. And that was only the beginning. Since then, the album has been certified diamond, named the best-selling album of 2020, spent seven weeks at number one in the Top Albums chart, and swept up six NRJ Music Awards and one Victoire de la Musique. The track Avant toi was also named Song of the Year. In short, an extraordinary run.

For many Vitaa and Slimane fans, this album will stay with them for life. To pull off such a success, the two singers surrounded themselves with other well-known voices, with names including Kendji Girac, GIMS and Camélia Jordana featured on the record, much to the delight of a fanbase that was never going to be disappointed.

Active since 2002 and 2009 respectively, Vitaa and Slimane filled Plenitude Arena to close out their tour in the best possible way, bringing together a vast community of fans who are always there when it comes to showing up for their favourite duo.

An Unlikely Meeting

Vitaa first heard about Slimane during the fifth season of The Voice on TF1, an edition won by Slimane as a contestant on Florent Pagny’s team. At the time, the young singer performed À fleur de toi during the blind auditions, and it did not go unnoticed by Vitaa. A few weeks later, Slimane went on to win Season 5.

After the show, the two artists met in person and recorded together the track Je te donne. Following the song’s remarkable success in 2018, and the friendship that had grown between them, they decided to write a duo album together, VersuS, released on August 22, 2019. The rest is history: a musical wave that swept across the whole of France.