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Arendi: the Guadeloupe voice behind the gold single Je l’ai vu

Published October 20, 2026

Arendi is a bouyon artist from Guadeloupe, known to the wider public for one precise track: “Je l’ai vu”, sung with the family trio HollyG and released on 22 October 2021, which SNEP certified as a gold single in France on 10 July 2025, under both names, Holly G and Arendi. Before that record, Arendi had already released his own bouyon track, “Shatta ay”, with Magma QLM, in February 2021. This profile tells those two verified facts, the published credits of his tracks, and what is not yet known about him, inventing nothing: no birth date, no home commune, no novelised biography.

Who Arendi is: a solo artist from Guadeloupe, not a HollyG member

The first thing to clear up, because many readers mix it up, is Arendi standing in relation to HollyG. Arendi is not a member of the group. HollyG is a family trio made up of Holly and her nieces, known as 6 Tresses and Cheveux Rouge, from Trois-Rivières and Vieux-Habitants, in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe. Arendi is a solo artist who collaborated with that trio on “Je l’ai vu”. The collaboration is real and major, but it does not make him a fourth member of the family, and this profile never presents him as one.

What verified sources say about Arendi fits in a few solid lines. His own videos present him under the name Arèndi, with a grave accent that platforms most often write as Arendi, without the accent. His published public details in the “Shatta ay” credits carry the mark of Guadeloupe: an Instagram account announced as Arèndi_971, 971 being the archipelago code, a YouTube channel named Arendi Officiel, and a video shoot in Guadeloupe. The vidIQ ranking of Guadeloupe YouTube channels places Arendi Officiel among the archipelago channels. On that basis, and on that basis alone, this site presents him as a bouyon artist from Guadeloupe.

What the sources do not say must be stated just as clearly. No reference biography consulted in October 2026 gives his birth name, his birth date or his home commune. One name returns in his published writing credits, Lory Monrose, credited as writer or composer on “Shatta ay” and on “Kylian Mbappé (feat. Mata)”. This profile reports that name exactly for what it is in the sources: a credit name published on his tracks. It turns it neither into a confirmed legal name nor into a biographical fact. On this site, a credit is read as a credit, and a missing piece of information is named as missing.

There remains the spelling question, which matters for finding him on platforms. Arendi, with an e, is the artist of this profile. He must not be confused with Arandi, with an a, another artist name present on platforms with tracks unrelated to Guadeloupe bouyon. That one letter confusion is common in search engines, and it explains part of the silence around Arendi: part of his potential audience lands on another artist. This profile keeps Arendi, the spelling of his bouyon tracks and of his Arendi Officiel channel.

“Shatta ay”: his own bouyon track, in February 2021, with Magma QLM

Before the gold record, there is the track in his own name. “Shatta ay” was released on 5 February 2021, according to the album page on Deezer, which presents Arendi as the main artist, with Magma QLM, and ties it to the 113 Music Empire label. The track therefore predates “Je l’ai vu” by eight months. For a reader who only knows Arendi as the name placed next to HollyG on an SNEP certificate, that order changes the portrait: Arendi arrived at the autumn 2021 collaboration with a bouyon track already released under his own name, not as a guest discovered by the trio.

The official credits of the “Shatta ay” video are published and this profile gives them in full. Writers: Arèndi and Magma Qlm. Composer: Trapking Beats. Pianist: Yg Gucci. Recording: Voodoo Studio. Camera: Mizerecord and Mighty Production. The video also names, among the people appearing, VJ Ben, who would be associated a few months later with “Je l’ai vu”. The official hashtags of the video state the genre without detour: Bouyon, Clip Officiel, TrapKingBeats. The title itself, “Shatta ay”, claims in its name the shatta culture running through bouyon gwada in those years, that hardened bouyon sung in Guadeloupe Creole.

The Deezer page for the track adds one valuable credit line: composers, Trapking Beats and Lory Monrose, and writer, Lory Monrose. As early as February 2021, then, the writing name that would reappear on other Arendi tracks is in place. For this site, which follows credits as closely as choruses, that regularity is the most interesting fact in the track: behind the stage name Arendi, a writing credit is published consistently, track after track, on the platforms.

“Shatta ay” appears in the structured data on this page as the first of three verified Arendi recordings. Find it in our bouyon playlist, alongside tracks from the same Guadeloupe season. Hearing it before “Je l’ai vu” lets you hear what Arendi brought to the collaboration: a voice already installed in bouyon gwada, a studio circuit already in place around Voodoo Studio, and a name already active on the archipelago platforms.

“Je l’ai vu”: the HollyG collaboration that became a gold single in France

“Je l’ai vu” was released on 22 October 2021. SNEP, the body that certifies singles in France, records the track under the names Holly G and Arendi, with the label Vadore Concept Groupe and the distributor Believe. Arendi is therefore, in the official French register, the co-performer of the track, at the same level as the trio. The official video credits him as a writer, with HollyG, for a composition by Dj Flip Tha Boss, a recording at Voodoo Studio, and a production bringing together Vadore Concept, Voodoo Studio, The Best Prod and Dj Raptor Martinique. VJ Ben is associated with the track and the video. Filming is placed at Galets Beach, at the Domaine de la Petite Sucrerie.

The HollyG reference biography, published by Qobuz and credited to Music Story, counts the public path of the track: “Je l’ai vu”, in collaboration with Arendi and VJ Ben, passed 10 million views. That counter, reported here with its attribution, makes the track the biggest documented video success attached to Arendi name. It has to be read in its right place: it is a collaboration success, built with a family trio already carried by its flagship track “Bandit”, and at the same time it is the track that installed Arendi name before an audience far wider than the one for his own releases.

On 10 July 2025, SNEP recorded the gold single certification of “Je l’ai vu” in France. The published time to certification is three years and nine months after the October 2021 release. For Arendi, that recording has a precise meaning: his name appears, in full, in an official record of the French music industry, as co-performer of a bouyon gold single. Few artists from the gwada scene can line up such a line, and no honest summary of his path can treat it as a detail. The full development of this certification, and its exact place in the history of bouyon gold singles in France, is told on the HollyG profile.

This profile adds one point the register makes visible and commentary often forgets: the gold of “Je l’ai vu” is a gold under two names. Articles speak of the HollyG record, because the trio carries the track, but the SNEP line writes Holly G and Arendi. Restoring the second name is part of the work of Bouyon Shattaz, which documents bouyon credits so the genre travels with its authors. When a Guadeloupe bouyon track is certified in France, the whole Guadeloupe side of its making must be named: the Basse-Terre trio, its collaborator Arendi, the composer Dj Flip Tha Boss and the Voodoo Studio where the track was recorded.

Arendi credits: Lory Monrose, Trapking Beats and the Voodoo circuit

The verified Arendi record is a record of credits more than a record of press, and that is how this profile treats it. Three names return in his official lines. Trapking Beats composed “Shatta ay”. Dj Flip Tha Boss composed “Je l’ai vu”. And the name Lory Monrose appears as writer or composer on “Shatta ay”, according to Deezer, and as writer on “Kylian Mbappé (feat. Mata)”, according to the Shazam listing for that track performed by Arendi with Mata featured. That third track, verified through its platform listing, completes the short list of documented Arendi recordings kept in the structured data on this page.

The place connecting those credits is a studio: Voodoo Studio. The recording of “Shatta ay” is credited there, the recording of “Je l’ai vu” is credited there too, and the Voodoo name runs through the whole verified HollyG discography between 2021 and 2025. By his credits, then, Arendi belongs to the same Guadeloupe workshop as the trio with which he won gold. That is not backstage rumour: those are published credit lines on two official videos, eight months apart, from two different artist configurations.

That credit based reading also protects against invention. This profile knows neither Arendi regular producer, nor his current label, nor his live dates, because no verified open source establishes them. It lends him no album, no tour and no streaming figures. The one counter it reports, the over 10 million views of “Je l’ai vu”, comes from the published biography of the partner group and is attributed as such. The rest of the record is made of release dates, label names published by platforms, Vadore Concept Groupe and Believe for “Je l’ai vu”, 113 Music Empire for “Shatta ay”, and video credits.

For an artist whose public trace is made of credit lines, that method has an editorial consequence: the profile is shorter than those of artists documented by complete biographies, and it says so. Bouyon Shattaz prefers an exact record, owned as partial, to a portrait inflated with unverifiable detail. If a reference biography of Arendi appears, with his commune, his path and his full discography, this profile will be rewritten around it. Until then, the published credits are the available biography, and they are enough to establish the essential: a bouyon artist from Guadeloupe, active from February 2021, co-performer of a French gold single in 2025.

Arendi Officiel: an established Guadeloupe YouTube presence

Arendi is not only a name in a credit roll: he has his own channel, Arendi Officiel, announced in the credits of his videos, with an Instagram account presented as Arèndi_971 and a Snapchat account under the same code in the “Shatta ay” credits. Those details are reported here as published credits from 2021. This profile does not turn them into verified links: the official links field in the structured data on this page therefore stays empty, because no complete official address was opened and confirmed during the writing.

The ranking of Guadeloupe YouTube channels published by vidIQ placed Arendi Officiel eighth in the archipelago at the time it was consulted, with about 45,000 subscribers, about 21 million cumulative views and 29 videos. Those figures belong to a third party measurement tool, consulted in October 2026, and this profile reports them with that attribution and that date, without presenting them as official counters. They nevertheless establish a useful order of magnitude: the Arendi channel counts among the followed Guadeloupe music channels, in the same ranking as other names from the archipelago scene.

That presence lights up the 2021 path. When “Je l’ai vu” came out in October, Arendi did not arrive from nowhere: he already had an active channel, an archipelago audience and a track in his own name released in February. The collaboration with HollyG then brought together two Guadeloupe audiences from the same platform generation, that of the Basse-Terre family trio and that of a solo artist from the same studio circuit. The result, over 10 million views according to the trio biography, then a gold single recorded in 2025, reads better from that starting point: two names already installed in platform bouyon gwada, not a meeting manufactured by an outside label.

To follow Arendi today, the safest path starts from his verified tracks: “Shatta ay” for his own work with Magma QLM, “Je l’ai vu” for the certified collaboration, and “Kylian Mbappé (feat. Mata)” for his other documented platform credit. Find them in our bouyon playlist, among the Guadeloupe tracks of the same period, from Lejuh to 1T1.

Arendi in bouyon gwada: what his path says about the scene

Bouyon gwada is the Guadeloupe branch of bouyon, the genre created in Dominica by WCK in Roseau in 1988, adopted in Guadeloupe, sung in Guadeloupe Creole and become, in the 2020s, the commercial engine of bouyon in France. Arendi belongs to that branch by every one of his verified facts: his tracks, his studios, his 971 code and his certified collaboration with a Basse-Terre trio. His path sums up how the branch works: archipelago artists, loyal studios, collaborations between names from the same scene, then recognition arriving from France, through the SNEP register, years after release.

Comparison with the other branches places his route. Bouyon soca, started in Dominica in 2003 by Dada according to the first-hand testimony of Sean “Smokiller” Francis and popularised by Triple Kay, travelled through riddims. Wrecketeng, the official spelling given by DJ Cut, travelled through sampling and rap, while reketeng remains the misspelling found online. The bouyon gwada of Arendi and HollyG travelled differently: through video, through fetes and through a shared credit roll, all the way to the gold certificate. The full history of those routes is told in our history of bouyon.

There is also a lesson in method in this record, and this site owns it in front of its readers. Arendi is proof that an artist can matter in the recent history of bouyon without having a complete public biography. His name is on a gold single, his credits are published, his channel is ranked among those of his archipelago, and yet almost nothing of his life is documented online. Documenting such an artist means resisting two temptations: absorbing him into the famous group he collaborated with, or filling the blanks with plausible but invented detail. This profile refuses both.

Why Arendi matters, in short: because he is the second name on one of the most important bouyon tracks of the decade in France, and because his own February 2021 track shows he was a Guadeloupe bouyon artist in his own right before that record. Start with “Shatta ay”, continue with “Je l’ai vu” on the HollyG profile, and keep his name on the list of gwada voices to follow: next time a certified bouyon credit roll appears, every one of its lines will need reading, including the ones summaries forget.

Frequently asked questions

Is Arendi a member of the HollyG group?

No. HollyG is a family trio made up of Holly and her nieces 6 Tresses and Cheveux Rouge, from Trois-Rivières and Vieux-Habitants, in Guadeloupe. Arendi is a solo artist from Guadeloupe who collaborated with the trio on “Je l’ai vu”, released on 22 October 2021. He is the co-performer of the track, not a member of the group.

What is Arendi role in the gold single “Je l’ai vu”?

SNEP records “Je l’ai vu” under the names Holly G and Arendi, with the label Vadore Concept Groupe and the distributor Believe. Arendi is therefore an official co-performer of the track, and the video credits him as a writer, with HollyG. The gold single certification was recorded on 10 July 2025, three years and nine months after release.

Which Arendi tracks should I hear first?

Start with “Shatta ay”, with Magma QLM, released on 5 February 2021 on 113 Music Empire, his own bouyon track, then “Je l’ai vu”, with HollyG, released on 22 October 2021 and certified gold single in 2025. The third verified track in this profile is “Kylian Mbappé (feat. Mata)”, listed on platforms with Arendi as performer.

Who writes Arendi tracks?

Published credits name Lory Monrose as writer or composer on “Shatta ay”, with Trapking Beats composing, and as writer on “Kylian Mbappé (feat. Mata)”. This profile reports Lory Monrose as a published credit name. No verified source allows it to be turned into a confirmed legal name, and this site does not present it as one.

Where is Arendi from and what is known about his life?

Verified sources establish an artist from Guadeloupe: the 971 code in his public details published in 2021, the Arendi Officiel channel ranked among Guadeloupe YouTube channels by vidIQ, and collaborations recorded at Voodoo Studio with the Guadeloupe scene. However, no reference biography consulted in October 2026 gives his commune, his birth date or his personal path, and this profile does not invent them.

Should it be written Arendi or Arandi?

Arendi, with an e. That is the spelling of his bouyon tracks, of his Arendi Officiel channel and of the SNEP line for “Je l’ai vu”. Arandi, with an a, is another artist name present on platforms, unrelated to the Guadeloupe bouyon documented here.

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