Maes | |
Number of songs: 20 | Total weeks on charts: 161
Appearing in a total number of: 53 charts | Total period running: 388 days
Appearing in a total number of: 53 charts | Total period running: 388 days
Biography
Walid Georgey (born 10 January 1995), known professionally as Maes, is a French rapper of Moroccan origin from Sevran. He has released two albums and a number of singles and is best known for "Madrina" featuring French rapper Booba. He's Moroccan originally.
Maes grew up in Beaudottes in Sevran in the northeastern suburbs of Paris with his five brothers and two sisters. He started rapping at age of 14 forming the trio MSR with his friends Radmo and SY3. After high school, Maes served a sentence for 18 months in maison d'arrêt de Villepinte from 2016 to 2017. During his incarceration, he released a number of songs and a mixtape Réelle Vie. After release from detention, he released "#MaesEstLibérable", and debuted as a supporting act for the groupe 13 Block at the gig in La Bellevilloise in December 2017. On 2 March 2018, he released a second mixtape Réelle Vie 2.0 and upon its success was signed to the Millenium label, part of Capitol Music France. With the single "Madrina" featuring Booba, he topped SNEP, the French Singles Chart. The music video was shot in Bogota. With Millenium, he had released the albums Pure in 2018 and Les derniers salopards in 2020.
Discography:
Pure - 2018
Les derniers salopards - 2020
Sources: Wikipedia, Top40-Charts.com Editorial team
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