Live from Montreal where he is currently performing before returning to French festivals all summer and moving to the Accor Arena from December 9 to 28, Orelsan gave a long interview in the columns of La Tribune Sundayreleased this Sunday June 21, 2026. The Caen rapper spoke on several themes such as notoriety, music, his very first film Yoroï, loneliness or his relationship to hatred on social networks. “We get used to it. But sometimes I can read a negative comment about me, written by a stranger, and think: ‘Oh no, he’s right.’ I can still be affected by things I read on the Internet. The Internet is our lives.” a-t-il confié.
At 43, Orelsan has changed a lot since his first provocative texts. Father of a three-year-old boy and married to Ahélya Randriambolaina, the rapper returned to this turn with a lot of maturity: “It’s generally life that does that. When you start having children, obviously, you don’t see the world in the same way (…) Personally, I wouldn’t want to listen to an artist who is having a huge midlife crisis and who acts as if he were 17 years old.” he explained.
“I think about it all the time” : Orelsan reveals his desire to escape notoriety on the other side of the world
Interrogé sur son long-métrage Yoroï released in theaters on October 29, including the main character flees fame to isolate himself on the other side of the world, Orelsan then explained that this scenario directly echoed his own deep desires. “I think about it all the time. It’s always been my solution to everything, to get away to the other side of the world. Before I was famous, I worked in a hotel. I had filled out applications to go to work in China. It was close…Everywhere I go, I feel like I could live there. I thought about it here in Montreal, New York, or in Thailand, where I was recently.”he confided. An exile that he never materialized as he justified it not without philosophy: “We all want to leave everything behind and leave, but the message of our film is to say: You can run away from where you come from, but that’s not going to change your psychological problems.”
At 43, the rapper is married to a certain Ahélya and father of a little boy
If the rapper did not take his ticket to the other side of the world, it is also because he found his balance in France with his discreet wife, Ahélya Randriambolaina. Met at the time of MSN well before the release of her first album, this Sorbonne and Celsa graduate works as a UX designer, far from show business. Mariés religieusement en 2021 à Caen, the two spouses welcomed a little boy, born in 2023. He had also made some confidences about his wife’s childbirth. It was during a preview of his film in Bordeaux that Orelsan surprised his fans by revealing that he was a dad: “He is two years old, and we see him at the end of the film, very briefly. Few people know, because I didn’t post with the baby in my arms at birth.”.
