Walead

Humanist singer and composer with multiple forms, and associate artist at several national theater and opera around the world, lover of poetry to which he dedicates his artistic career, Walid Ben Selim was born in Casablanca on a September evening in 1984, in the old medina, between the commercial port and the auction. 

In 2010, Walid is hosted by the Gowri Art Institute in Kerala, which invites him for a creative residency under the direction of Sajitha Shankar, it is at this time that he dives back into Arabic poetry, including Abu Al Alaa Al Maari and El Hallaj.
Back in France, he laid the foundations of N3rdistan which, two years later, will be Inouï de Printemps de Bourges and revelation Visa For Music 2015. 

After more than 200 concerts with N3rdistan, notably at Jazz sous les pommiers, Oslo World Festival, L'boulevard, Timitar, Journées Musicales de Carthage, Beau Regard, Les Déferlantes, Liverpool World Festival, Montreal Arab Festival, Walid returned to the studio to work on new sounds, and notably signed an original creation mixing theater and musical poetry around texts by Mahmoud Darwich. After having composed the music for several short films and the documentary "Women SenseTour", he signed, in 2018, the music for the Moroccan feature film "An Ordinary Emergency" by Mohcine Besri. He has been invited to perform at the Sacred Music Festival in Fez, the Sacred Spirit Festival in Jodhpur (India) and Recbeat in Brazil, and by the Mahmoud Darwich Foundation and the IMA for a tour in the MENA. 

Walid Ben Selim becomes an associate artist at the Silo and Uni'sons in 2019, with the national theater of Sète and the Opera of Montpellier, he is solicited by the Arabesques Festival to create around the work of Darwich "The dice player" a piece between theater and music, where he writes and conducts for the musicians of the Opera. In 2021, he signed the music of the film "Sidi Valentin" by Hicham Laasri on Netflix, followed by his feature film « Maghribya Harra » in 2022.
In October 2022, Walid was invited to the Miami Symphony to open the Oslo World Human Right. In 2023, and The Royal Opera of Belgium asked him to write a new opera « Ali ».
Retrenched in a Cathar castle in the Eastern Pyrenees, he installs his sound laboratory, and records his titles, writes his poems, inviting his artistic circle in residence, with poetry as a tuning fork, to create Poetic Spaces where poets, actors and musicians are mixed.