Christine and the Queens will follow up their 2022 pop opera Redcar les Adorables Étoile this June with Paranoïa, Angels, True Love, featuring guests like Mike Dean, 070 Shake and Madonna. “This new record is the second part of an operatic gesture that also encompassed 2022’s Redcar les adorables étoiles. Taking inspiration from the glorious dramaturgy of Tony Kushner’s iconic play, Angels in America, Redcar felt colorful and absurd like Prior sent to his insane dream-space,” Chris said in a statement.

Meltdown Festival is rushing back to the Southbank Centre this summer for 10 days of acts playing across multiple stages, and its grand curator has been announced: singer, songwriter and all-round superstar Christine And The Queens. The announcement makes the French phenomenon the youngest person to take on this role at Meltdown Festival, and he will follow in the footsteps of artists including Robert Smith, Grace Jones, Patti Smith, David Bowie and more.

After breaking through, Letissier’s second album, Chris, and its follow-up EP, La Vita Nouva, sustained commercial attention while garnering unprecedented acclaim from the critics. Most notably, Letissier was praised for 2020’s La Vita Nouva, a brazen artistic response to the tragic death of his mother. In 2022, Letissier began releasing singles under the new alias Redcar, culminating in his third solo album, Redcar les adorables étoiles (prologue), released in November. 

An ethereal voice booms from above, echoing down over Paris’s Cirque d’Hiver: “Redcar, come to me baby.” Stationed in the middle of a ring-shaped stage, Christine and the Queens – real name Héloïse Letissier – is performing in a 19th-century circus lined with gilded horses and plush velvet curtains, on a stage originally designed for acrobats and clowns.

CHRISTINE AND THE Queens’ frontperson, Chris, has spent most of his life yearning for simplicity — to understand his own sexuality and gender but longing mostly for the simplest emotion: love. Unfortunately for Chris, yearning is what he does best. That anxious feeling is what makes his music so invigorating.

The French pop star has endured the death of his mother, record industry resistance and a backlash after adopting male pronouns. In an emotional interview, he talks about the struggle to understand himself and the music he makes.

Christine and the Queens has announced their third studio album, Redcar les adorables étoiles, alongside details for an upcoming live show. The French singer-songwriter hasn’t released an album since 2018’s highly acclaimed Chris. With the announcement of the new album, Christine and the Queens (real name Héloïse Letissier), has already stirred up much anticipation and excitement.

Christine and the Queens have released the spiritual sequel to their 2020-defining “People, I’ve Been Sad”: “Je Te Vois Enfin” whose title translates to “I Finally See You.” The track, which Chris sings entirely in French, is more upbeat than “People” with jittery synths soundtracking her layered vocals. Some of the lyrics translate to “My love rhymes with always” and “Oh, my love, here you are/I finally see you.”

The ‘Joseph’ EP sees Christine covering George Michael classic ‘Freedom’ as well as a popular French song from the 1970s, ‘Comme l’oiseau’.

Christine and the Queens has shared two new cover songs after performing them during Global Citizen Live. The covers of George Michael’s “Freedom! ’90” and Michel Fugain’s “Fais comme l’oiseau” are housed on the new Joseph EP. Listen below.

Héloïse Letissier has once again injected enormous emotional heft into the vessel of warped, left-field pop. And this one takes on classic literature! Christine and The Queens’ newest release ‘La Vita Nuova’ borrows its name from a Latin text by Dante Alighieri, which tells the story of his love for a woman named Beatrice and  details the emotional toll of her early death.

The debut album from Christine & The Queens has sold more than 1m equivalent albums worldwide – as both the artist and her team at Because Music ready the next phase of her career.

Christine And The Queens‘ Héloïse Letissier has spoken to NME about her next album.

The French musician released her debut ‘Chaleur Humaine’ in the UK in February, having originally issued the French edition in June 2014. Letissier appears on the cover of this week’s NME.

Read more at https://www.nme.com/news/music/christine-queens-talks-creepy-sexy-next-album-1846507#QeMOlJPl7Qv3C3BV.99

Glastonbury Festival often provides a breakthrough hit, a relative unknown that uses the weekend to catapult into mainstream consciousness. This year, that act was undoubtedly Christine And The Queens, the vehicle of French auteur Héloïse Letissier, whose debut album Chaleur Humaine has risen to its highest chart position so far in the wake of her captivating Other Stage set.