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Nadia Essadiqi

Canadian actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ22277178
Source-derived summary

Nadia Essadiqi, better known by her stage name La Bronze, is a Moroccan-Canadian musician and actress. Although usually singing in French, she is currently best known for her Maghrebi Arabic version of the Stromae hit "Formidable".

As an actress she has appeared in the television series Trauma, season 3 of Ici Radio-Canada Télé's Unité 9, the web series Quart de vie (TOU.TV), the short film Black Forest (Forêt Noire) and the science-fiction Projet-M.

Her first album, La Bronze, was released in September 2014. In 2015, she was nominated "Emerging artist of the year" for the Canadian Music Week Awards. A second album was announced for 2016, and finally released on 3 November 2017.

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External links

Nadia Essadiqi at IMDb

La Bronze YouTube channel.

La Bronze, artist website.

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The public source identifies “Nadia Essadiqi” as canadian actor. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Nadia, Essadiqi and Canadian.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014, 2015, 2016, 2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1985-10-30. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Nadia, Essadiqi and Canadian providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from Nadia Essadiqi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.