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Zed Yun Pavarotti, real name Charlan Zouaoui-Peyrot, born in March 1997 in Saint-Étienne (Loire) is a French singer and rapper. His musical genre can be identified with Cloud rap, Hip-hop, pop or trap depending on his songs. His label is Artside Music since 2018 and he has, in total, released 5 projects. His most known and recent are Grand Zéro (2018) and French Cash (May 2019). He’s starting to get himself known thanks to the help of very famous rappers such as Columbine and Orelsan.

His youth in Saint-Étienne
Born in March 1997 in Saint-Étienne, his father is an educator and his mother is a social worker, they have transmitted to him Italian origins, but also polish and Algerian. His childhood was difficult due to poverty from the city and the constant presence of familial issues in his life. Indeed, in Saint-Étienne poverty rate rises to 7,1 points more than the poverty rate of France (13,9%). Moreover, he moved a lot as a young man. In an interview from Yard, he explains: “[http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyard.media%2Fzed-yun-pavarotti-interview-portrait-yard%2F It was complicated for my parents. And the walls are quickly haunted. We had to find clean walls every time.]”

A nomadic life in the old mining city has marked the young man to the point it his experience has influenced his music. The monotonous tones to sad lyrics give to some of his music a melancholic tune.

He failed the baccalaureat since he’s often absent during class in high school. He obtained his diploma as an external candidate. Despite his interest in the job of vet, his Christian faith leads him to study theology in university in Strasbourg and then musicology. Those studies don’t last and he decides to make rap his job.

His progress in music
From a musical side, Zed is interested in classical music and rock which are, in his opinion, “the most spectacular” and the most influential musical movements. During his youth, the young man listened to metal, hard rock which are going to lead him to rap.

In 2014, he released his first title and first project but they are not available anymore.

He continues to evolve in the rap music and releases in 2016, a project entitled Sextus made of 6 titles where the influence of metal is still strong.

Then, he collaborated with the group POSA in 2017, together they release “Fabric5”, a production of 5 titles. Then he decides to go into music alone with his only and loyal friend Osha as Beatmaker. It is at that time he changes his stage name: Zed becomes Zed Yun Pavarotti.

Marin Mercier sees his music videos on Youtube and falls in love with it. Even if the videos don’t make a lot of views at that time, Marin put his trust in the young artist and brings him to the studio. He finally became his manager.

Le Yun released the mixtape Grand Zéro (2018). He becomes one of the big boys by signing a contract with Artside Music, label of the famous rapper MHD and also in performing during the opening act of some concerts such as Columbine, Lorenzo or Orelsan. Near one year after the release of Grand Zéro, he released French Cash, a mixtape made of 16 titles. As well as writing himself his lyrics and singing, he also co-created his music videos.

From now on, he lives in Paris with Osha and says in an interview that this fresh start had influenced his new titles and made them more nostalgic. Zed did a tour, the French Cash Tour, in June 2019 during 6 months where he swings from France, Belgium, and Switzerland. Today, the rapper’s dream is to fill stadiums.

His characteristics
Zed Yun Pavarotti has a lot of distinctive signs that make him easily recognizable.

First of all, the way he stands on stage. The artist has often his hands behind his back. It comes from the band Oasis which he tried to imitate on the shooting of the music video “Papillon” and he continued to do it as it was easier to sing for him to sing in this position. He has many tattoos particularly on the neck and the face. One of his first tattoos he had done is the a round with a triangle in the middle, one of the first “zeros” in history. [https://yard.media/zed-yun-pavarotti-interview-portrait-yard/ “This particular one has intrigued me because it’s not empty. It’s the only one with a form inside”]. A way to remind him he started from scratches, from zero, hence the name of one of his projects: Grand Zéro.

The tattoo “Home”, located under his right eye, represented a memory from his home in Saint-Étienne where he grew up with his mother and sisters.

Zed is used to mix different musical genres together, to create music very different from each other, use autotune and to sing with a “not very articulated speech”. What’s more, he often describes himself as a dull person, also he says he doesn’t like to add life during his concerts: he doesn’t dance on stage and during his concert, he focuses on his vocal performance which is the most important in his opinion.

Stage name
When he started out, his stage name was simply “Zed” in relation to the first letter of his last name, then to distinguish himself, he added “Yun” which means “young” in urban English and “Pavarotti” in relation to his interest for classical music and particularly the tenor Luciano Pavarotti but also to show he’s going to diversify and try different music styles.

Discography

 * 2016 : Sextus
 * 2017 : FABRIC5 in collaboration with POSA
 * 2018 : Grand Zéro
 * 2019 : French cash