Justine Bourgeus (Tsar B)

Justine Bourgeus is an artist, musician, producer, composer and singer-songwriter.

Her soundtrack debut was a singing duet with Oscar and The Wolf of the cover of “Back to Black” by Amy Winehouse, which was recorded for the soundtrack of Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah's film Black.
Justine Bourgeus is a sought-after composer and producer , she composed and recorded the soundtracks for, among others, Godvergeten (Canvas) The 42 children of the Guru by Eric Goens, Samuels Travels by Air Karapetian, Sibling by Laura Van Passel, Assisen for Play4 , Leef! By Lenny Van Wesemael, High Jump and more by Lennert Madou or Season of Sex for VRTmax.
For the project 2x25 of the World Soundtrack Awards and Film Fest Gent, director Jessica Woodworth created a idiosyncratic film - called Fly - in which the Bourgeus created the music which inspired the form, the narrative and the texture. Bourgeus also composed the music for Above Front Tears Oui Float, a project by artist Laure Prouvost, which is still touring around the world.

Trained as a classical violinist, she entered the pop world at the age of 14 and  started touring internationally at the age of 18.
In 2015 she released her solo debut single Escalate under her solo artist name Tsar B, which received international attention from The Fader, Noisey UK, BBC Radio 1 and more; Bourgeus’ music became very popular within the dance world; it was broadcast on the worldwide versions of So You Think You Can Dance, together with thousands of choreographies from all over the world.
Today, Tsar B has 3 EPs and 2 LPs later under her name and she performed at major festivals such as Pukkelpop, Dour, Lokerse Feesten etc and in Sao Paulo, Curitiba, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Turkey, Romania and others.

Over the past years she has already collaborated with various national and international artists: Sylvie Kreusch, The Subs, Mauro Pawlowski, Nova Twins (UK), etc.
In 2020, Bourgeus’ made her own concert movie ‘Les Diners de Gala’ in which she translated her existing repertoire to a concert for strings. Together with multi-instrumentalist Dijf Sanders, she closed Film Fest Ghent with a unique tribute to her role model Angelo Badalamenti, composer of the iconic Twin Peaks score.