La Gale

Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap
Secondary Genre: Alternative Beirut / Lebanon - Lausanne /Switzerland, Not Applicable Lebanon Contact

I write, I drink, I spill, I spit.
I'm into rap and punk rock, natural clouds,diesel and dust, arab-european, rude and reckless. Hello, my name is La Gale.

Artist Information

Biography

Karine Guignard aka La Gale was born in 1983 in Switzerland, and is half Lebanese and half Swiss. Contaminated by the hiphop virus, she has been linked to the Arab rap movement since 2005. She has collaborated with many different protagonists in this musical scene ; from Egypt to Palestine, Lebanon to Switzerland, and from France to Canada. For La Gale, say « jarab » or "scabies" and don't try to find out what the main influence on her is. Anger and revolt color her flag red, but her determination and her name itself paint it black.

La Gale is a hybrid mix of punkrocker (ex-guitar player of a street punk band « Classical Slum » and ex lead-singer of « EDS ») and raw hiphop activist - a truckdriverstoner addict, tattooed for life and proud of it. She is a reckless MC who does not compromise and begs for no favors. Avoiding the media, and wary of the misinformation it spreads, La Gale works on telling the truth about what she sees and lives on an everyday basis ; recounting human struggle and nothing more.

With her mate Rynox, she has performed a hundred gigs, toured with her favourite Lebanese collegue Malikah in both France and Switzerland, and has been part of several mixtapes. She's also an expert live sound engineer and has toured with bands in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Lebanon and Syria. Recently, she made her acting debut as the main character "Nejma" in a French serial for Canal+ called « de l'Encre ». De l’Encre was written by Hamé & Ekoué from the French rap band La Rumeur, and also starred Beatrice Dalle and Reda Kateb (seen in « The Prophet ») She has also acted in the forthcoming film of directed by Nicolas Wadimoff « Libertad », where she plays « Charlie », one of the main characters.

She led the conception, recording, editing and release of an album named « Gaza meets Geneva », involving several rappers and beatmakers, in collaboration with the Palestinian group « Darg Team ». She has also organized various concerts and gigs since 2002, and has a large network of contacts around the world.

She is currently cooking her first solo album in her secret underground kitchen, which is expected to be released in spring 2012. For that reason she has been slowing down the gig machine in order to offer a new set to the public and herself.

Instrumentation

Rynox (MC) - MC vocals
DJ Chikano - DJ Mixer

Discography

Singles :

"J'vais m'marier" on "Underground hiphop mixtape vol.1, Les briques ça vole aussi", France
"Donna" PP+ mixtape, Lausanne
"J'me suis battu" Protontype 5, Lausanne
"Warriors" feat. Mc Amin and Rush aka Saifullah (Cairo)
"Black Moon" ft Cheena Black and Beirutus (Beirut-USA)
"Violence" ft. Kordy and Killa F (Cairo) and Benzosa (CAN)
"Ghanni" - Palestinian solidarity song - beat from Stormtrap, Ramallah Underground

Albums and others :

"Gaza Meets Geneva" collab album with Darg Team from Gaza
3 tracks sung for the movie "de l'Encre" written by la Rumeur

Solo album currently recorded and to be released end 2011



Official Website

http://lagale.tumblr.com

Links

Audio

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Lyrics

Video

la rumeur parlent de leur telefilm de lencre

Photo Gallery

Press

  • "Le Rap Suisse n'est pas mort, Lui." [+ Show ]

    Tandis que Booba semble avoir perdu sa verve sous des couches de vocoder à la T-Pain et des prods à ...

  • Desert Poets - an Introduction [+ Show ]

    It’s hard to say when and where it started in Arabia, or who really started it. There’s been a hip-h...

  • "De l'Encre, un film d'Hamé et d'Ekoué" [+ Show ]

    Karine Guignard campe avec brio une jeune rappeuse aussi rebelle que rugueuse dans "De l'encre" N...

  • De L’encre : quand La Rumeur s’attaque au petit écran [+ Show ]

    Il fallait l'œil et la plume aiguisés de rappeurs aussi exigeants qu'Hamé et Ekoué pour ne pas tombe...

  • Le rap décape en Prime-Time [+ Show ]

    Culture Le 7 février à 0h00 Le rap décape enprime-time Grand angleEcrite pour Canal + par les ra...

  • De l'Encre, de Hamé et Ekoué [+ Show ]

    Pendant que France 2 programmait mercredi soir un téléfilm de Philippe le Guay ("Les femmes du 6ème ...

  • Une Lausannoise sur Canal [+ Show ]

    Les fans de rap la connaissent sous son nom de scène, La Gale. La Lausannoise Karine Guignard fait s...

  • Une rappeuse vaudoise héroïne d'un téléfilm [+ Show ]

    La jeune Karine Guignard, connue sous le pesudo de La Gale, incarne le personnage principal du film ...

  • La Gale - Maladie Sonore [+ Show ]

    La Gale, jeune artiste lausannoise au rap réfractaire et convaincu, m'a accordé une interview. Renco...

Setlist

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