Rilès

Rilès Kacimi, aka Rilès, is a French urban pop, R&B and rap singer from Rouen, France, born on January 4, 1996. After graduating from high school and studying English at university, he began performing and set up a studio in his bedroom to record his productions, which he releases on his video-sharing website. In 2014, he produced his first mixtape entitled Vanity Plus Mind, which announced his musical style and his preference for the English language. For a year, from September 2016 to 2017, he forced himself to release one track a week, a project he called Rilèsundayz. Two of the fifty-two tracks, "Thank God" and "I Do", go gold, and "Brothers" goes platinum. In 2018, he releases the tracks "Pesetas" and "Should I", with videos shot in Bolivia and the USA. After a series of concerts at Le Bataclan in Paris and then Le Zénith in Rouen, Rilès embarks on a tour of Europe and North Africa. 2019 sees the release of the first single from his forthcoming album, "Marijuana", featuring American rapper Snoop Dogg in the video. Rilès tours again before the release of the album Welcome to the Jungle. After the Covid-19 pandemic, he resumes his Rilèsundayz series for a second season, with a self-designed stone corresponding to each track. He retraces his career in the book Sunday Stones, published in 2022, and marries Swiss photographer Elisa Parron on stage at the Vieilles Charrues festival. The long series of titles released in the meantime resulted in the 2025 album Survival Mode, including a collaboration with Tif on "Obvious". Highly anticipated by the public, it reached No. 1 in the sales and listening charts on its release. The same year saw the release of a double album, The 25th Hour, in which Rilès showcases her wide-ranging musical spectrum, highlighted by the track "Don't Cry My Love".