I recently stumbled over an old classic where Jamel Debbouze teaches Stromae how to compose the song Alors on Danse. Next, I found out that his song Papaoutai recently hit one billion (yes, 1.000.000.000!) streams on YouTube. It would have been easy to write him off as a mainstream pop wonder, but I was intrigued and discovered that his music is surprisingly deep and stretches from music to the persona he created around himself, and from music performances like truly original Tiny Desk sets to a full-length movie for Multitudes, his last album.