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Redcar les adorables étoiles (prologue) (transl. Redcar the Adorable Stars (Prologue)) is the third studio album by French singer Christine and the Queens, released on 11 November 2022. On the album, Héloïse Letissier adopts the moniker Redcar, just as he adopted the moniker Chris on his previous album, Chris (2018). It is the first album in a series, with the second Redcar album, Paranoïa, Angels, True Love, following on 9 June 2023. It was preceded by the singles "Je te vois enfin", "Rien dire" and "La chanson du chevalier". Christine and the Queens performed two shows at the Cirque d'hiver in Paris in promotion of the album in November 2022, and at the Royal Festival Hall in London on 22 November.
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Letissier worked on the album with producer Mike Dean, who contacted him in 2021 and "suggested they collaborate", with Letissier then traveling to Los Angeles to work with Dean. Letissier recorded the album in two weeks, and described it as a rock opera. Letissier adopted the persona of Redcar for the project, with Redcar being described as a "suave figure wearing a red glove". Letissier adopted the name after repeatedly seeing red cars while in Los Angeles in 2020. Following his mother's death in 2019, he took it as a "superstitious sign", explaining: "It was as if an angel was nodding along, sprinkling its magic into my world. It's my choice to live in this strange, beautiful poetry, and Redcar is emblematic of that choice."
The album's release was delayed from 28 September to 11 November 2022 due to Letissier being injured during rehearsals.
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