Vaï

Adil Takhssait better known by his stage name Mélo (or Melopsy) (during his membership of Les Messagers du Son (LMDS) and by Vaï as a solo act, is a Canadian (Quebec) rap and hip-hop musician of Moroccan origin. Adil Takhssait was born 24 April 1979 in Paris (France) in an Moroccan family and immigrated to Canada in 1993, and established himself in Montreal, Quebec. He is an author compositor and performer. He is presently signed to K.Pone.Inc record label.

In LMDS

Adil Takhssait formed in 1994 his first band LMDS abbreviation of Les Messagers Du Son with his classmate and friend Cyril Kamar (later on K'Maro). Adil took the name "Mélo" (Mélopsy) whereas Cyril Kamar took the name Lyrik.

LMDS, Les Messagers du Son has had two successful albums, Les Messagers du Son in 1997 and Il Faudrait Leur Dire in (1999). The self-titled debut album of LMDS Les Messagers du Son issued in 1997 achieved top positions in the Quebec charts and the duo were a revelation in Les FrancoFolies de Montréal music festival in 1999. They followed that by "Il faudrait leur dire" ^[1] and a compilation released in France, where both had resided for some time.

After the break-up of the group in 2001, both Adil Takhssait and Cyril Kamar have continued solo. Cyril achieves considerable success internationally as K'Maro with 5 albums to date. Adil Takhssait has also a solo musical career under the name Vaï with 2 independent albums.

Vaï, as a solo act

Soon after the break-up, Adil issued his solo breakthrough album Street Life with the single coming from the album and also entitled "Street Life"^[2] featured Zaho and sampled on "Sweet Dreams" by Annie Lennox.

Another song that had great circulation was "Tous Héros"^[3] about boxing and violence and gained cult status amongst fans. The song sampled on James Brown hit "It's A Man's World".

His follow-up album Ma raison in 2008 includes the single "Sur ma vie"^[4] was featured in the daily Top 5 chart in Canadian French language cable television specialty channel MusiMax

He remains signed to K.Maro-owned music label K.Pone.Inc that in addition to K.Maro and Vaï also has Shy'm, Imposs and Ale Dee signed to the label.

He was also featured in Zoxea's song "Reste calme"^[5] and in DJ Blast's "Un homme à part".^[6]

His "Visages tristes"^[7] is about the Arab-Israeli conflict using samplings from the soundtrack of Schindler's List

Albums

With LMDS

• "Les Messagers du Son" (1997)
• "Il Faudrait Leur Dire" (1999)

As solo act

• "Street Life" (2003)
  • Tracks of the album
  • "Intro gloire à l'album"
  • "Pour Ceux"
  • "Zahri" feat. Freeman (Krhyme Le Roi)
  • "J moins trois"
  • "Klebs"
  • "Street Life"
  • "Vecu"
  • "Comme un fanfare"
  • "On fait le tour" feat. DJ Horg
  • "Jrap avec mes trippes" feat. Sully Sefil
  • "Revolta"
  • 'Esperance"
  • "Rap tous les jours" featuring Osfa
  • "J moins deux"
  • "V. A. I. L. L. A. N. T." feat. Roots Foundation
  • "Plus"
  • "Verbal Fight" featuring Zaho
  • "Original moi"
  • "Street Life (remix)" featuring Roots Foundation
  • "J moins un"
  • "Mtl Connection" feat. Va
• "Ma Raison" (2008)
  • Tracks of the album:
  • "L'odeur du dancefloor"
  • "Sur ma vie"
  • "Infidèle"
  • "Faux mc"
  • "Je retiens mon souffle"
  • "Ma raison"
  • "Tour du mic"
  • "Made in" feat. Minea
  • "Donne-moi le temps"
  • "Love & happiness"
  • "Djamer" feat. Minea
  • "Solide comme un rocher" feat. Mickey Dangerous
  • "Si seulement"
  • "Superstar"
  • "Y'a pas moyen" feat. Minea
  • "Bienvenue" feat. Bad News Brown

Singles

With LMDS

• "Cette une belle histoire" with Jodie Resther
• "Joins toi à la dance"
• "Tu me dirais"
• "Le bien de demain"
• "La Squadra"

As solo act

• "Street Life" featuring Zaho (2004)
• "Sur ma vie" (2008)
• "Infidèle" (2009)

References

External links

• Official site
• MySpace site
• Official blog page at SkyRock
• Blog at Blogspot