Cyril Kamar Quotes

Canada, Singer-Songwriter
January 31, 1980

Cyril Kamar, (in Arabic سيريل قمر) (born January 31, 1980 in Beirut, Lebanon) better known by his stage name K-Maro, sometimes also K'Maro, is a Canadian pop singer-songwriter, producer and businessman of Lebanese origin. He sings in French and English. He is also the founder, the owner, and the CEO of East 47th Music, a record label, and Rock&Cherries Agency, a Paris based Talents management agency. Both East 47th Music and Rock&Cherries Agency are part of KEG company (Kamar Entertainment Group).

Also known as Producer, Businessman

In North America, hip-hop and urban music are much more developed than it could be in Europe, except for a couple of markets like France, for example, or Germany, they're a little bit more aware.

Cyril Kamar
- Music
- America
- Couple
Music should always be just a celebration.

Cyril Kamar
- Music
- Celebration

I've always liked fashion but maybe not to the point that I was so sick about it that I wanted to draw my own things.

Cyril Kamar
- Fashion
- Sick
If you just had an inspiration at night or with a girl or whatever and you want to talk about it, you don't necessarily want to share it with everybody . . . That's the first thing that made me want to go solo; I wanted to talk about my own things, I wanted to try to be creative [in] my own way.

Cyril Kamar
- Night
- Girl
- Inspiration
Everything goes so fast that you wake up suddenly after 5 years and you just feel like you want to talk about different [things] than everybody in the group, you want to talk about your own things.

Cyril Kamar
- Up
- Different
The difference is that they [Europeans] don't have that culture about hip-hop as a lifestyle, a way of life; for them it's more of the new trend, the new music that you have to like.

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- Life
- Music
- Culture
I came to a point where I couldn't walk into an urban store and find anything I liked. Everything was just getting too baggy, everything was getting so over [priced]. It's as if what I wanted in street wear was nowhere in stores, with no disrespect to any hip-hop brands.

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- Disrespect
I've always liked fashion, I've always made sure that I was dressed properly; the way I looked was always important to me.

Cyril Kamar
- Important
- Fashion