Belinda is M. Pokora’s vibrant retelling of a classic French heartbreak story, wrapped in contagious pop energy. The narrator sings to chase away his sadness, begging the audience to help him track down a dazzling woman who keeps slipping through his fingers “like a shooting star.” With her yeux bleus and front blond, Belinda is unforgettable, yet she vanishes and reappears so often that the singer’s heart is forever being stitched together, only to be torn apart again.
Beneath the upbeat groove lies a cocktail of longing and loneliness. Each chorus feels like a public missing-person announcement, while every verse reveals the singer’s inner tug-of-war: should he get used to her disappearances or keep calling her name into the wind? The song captures that universal ache of chasing someone who is dazzling but elusive, turning personal heartache into a catchy anthem you will want to sing along to while practicing your French vocab.
M. Pokora is a French singer, songwriter, and dancer born Matthieu Tota on September 26, 1985, in Strasbourg, France.
He got his start on the reality show Popstars with the group Linkup before going solo in 2004 as Matt Pokora. A 2005 lawsuit from R&B singer Matt Houston forced him to shorten his name, and "M. Pokora" stuck for the rest of his career; the stage name itself comes from a conversation with his Polish grandmother about humility, "pokora" in Polish.
Since then he has become one of France's biggest pop stars, blending pop, R&B, and dance influences across albums like R.E.D. and Pyramide. His 2016 album My Way, a tribute to the legendary French singer Claude François, went straight to number one in France. Off stage, he is married to the actress and singer Christina Milian.