Simon Walls is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, music producer, documentarist and adventurer travelling the world to capture images and sounds. It is difficult to provide a single label for his work but Simon has successfully managed to blend the sounds, the pictures and the stories of his travels to his music.

His latest album “Atty Bouma” was written in Senegal, a 6 month trip North to South, from living in the streets of St-Louis helping kids in need to recording traditional artists in the Casamance region, Simon came back with a self produced album filled with emotions and a different horizon to his music.

With his unique brand of Folk-Rock and Reggae, his past album “Klein Blue”, released in 2014, was influenced by the people he met and the adventures encountered on his Walk Across Canada, a music tour without a van, from Victoria BC to St-John’s NL. A 7000 km walk using only his feet and a guitar on his back that led Simon to produce his first documentary and becoming a motivational speaker for teenagers in schools with Les Grands Explorateurs, sharing his travel stories and his life as a touring musician.

Simon Walls has been sharing his music for the past 10 years with intensity on the roads of North America. As an artist on the Canadian musical scene, he has opened for the Pascale Picard Band, shared the stage with Big Sugar, performed for Canada Day in Ottawa and produced many successful artists such as ILAM, Elete Rimtobaye, LITA and Mat Tyler. He is also the writer of the book “Troubadour des temps modernes”.

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Simon Walls est à la fois musicien, multi-instrumentiste, documentariste, aventurier, capteur d’images et de sons. Bien difficile de lui donner une seul étiquette. Simon s’inspire de tous ses voyages, de la route et de la liberté, de ses aventures folles et de tous ces personnages rencontrés.

Après le lancement de son album Klein Blue composé pendant une traversée du Canada complètement à pied, 7000 kilomètres qui relient Victoria BC à St-John’s, Terre-Neuve, Simon a été fouler le sol Sénégalais en quête de nouveaux sons et d’images. 2 mois à aider dans la rue des jeunes enfants mendiants et 3 mois à vivre en plein coeur de la brousse africaine aux rythmes de tribus et de musiciens traditionnels, Simon nous est revenu avec un documentaire pour Les Grands Explorateurs et son nouvel album intitulé “Atty Bouma”.

Laissant l’improvisation et les aventures faire son voyage, Simon s’est imprégné d’une toute autre culture qu’il a mélangé a son style Folk et Reggae, un mélange que l’on retrouve dans son premier extrait “Bégué” signifiant “bonheur” dans le dialecte wolof.

Simon continue d’arpenter les routes pour y partager sa musique avec une énergie qui semble sans limite. En tant qu’artiste émergeant de la scène canadienne, Simon Walls a aussi partagé la scène avec Pascale Picard dans les plus grandes salles du Québec et accumule les tournées sur sa feuille de route.