Tsar B op Boring Festival 2024

Tsar B (pseudonym of Justine Bourgeus) is a Belgian musician. She played the violin for School is Cool from 2012 to 2016. Bourgeus took her first steps in music with the band Bear Run.

Her singing debut occurred on the Oscar and the Wolf cover single “Back to Black” by Amy Winehouse, recorded for the soundtrack of Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah’s film Black.

In 2015, she released her solo debut single “Escalate,” which gained international attention from publications such as The Fader, Noisey UK, BBC Radio 1, and more. In the summer of 2016, she followed up with her first EP, independently released on vinyl. In 2017, a new single titled “Golddigger” was released, and in early 2018, “Rattlesnake,” whose video premiered on Dazed & Confused.

Tsar B’s music is highly popular in the dance world. Her music has been featured on the American version of So You Think You Can Dance, and singer Eleni Foureira covered the song on the Greek So You Think You Can Dance. There are over a thousand choreographies set to her songs from around the world, a significant portion of which she has compiled on her YouTube channel [dead link]. The most popular is that of choreographer Alexander Chung, currently boasting over 41 million plays.