"Va Bene" is a multilingual song by

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featuring singer

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. It included lyrics in French, Northern African colloquial Arabic and some Italian. Appearing in La Fouine's mixtape ''Capitale du crime 4'' on Banlieue Sale Music, it was released as a single. The single found minimal charting success, as it reached number 78 on SNEP, the official French Singles Chart. The song stayed a total of 8 weeks in the French Top 200.

Music video

The music video filmed in Morocco and was directed by Glenn Smith.La Fouine YouTube channel: La Fouine feat. Reda Taliani - Va Bene (music video)
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. But his father wants him to quit and lend a helping hand in herding the sheep. Frustrated by this, the boy runs away from home and finds himself in a larger Moroccan city where he becomes a street vendor. There he meets La Fouine and while trying to sell him a merchandise, he also offers to La Fouine a cup of tea. La Fouine touched by the boy's gesture gives him a considerable tip with which the boy is able to buy a football shirt from another street vendor carrying the name and number 23 of his favorite player the Brazilian

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who at the time was playing for

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Chart performance

References

External links

YouTube - La Fouine channel - La Fouine feat. Reda Taliani - Va Bene (official music video)
2014 singles Macaronic songs 2014 songs Song articles with missing songwriters {{2010s-song-stub