The Me Too surge spares no environment.
After the world of cinema, sport, media, fashion or cuisine, it is now the world of French music that is affected.
In "C à Vous" Friday evening, Flore Benguigui, singer of the French disco-pop group L'Impératrice, denounced the sexual violence of which she was the victim in her debut, when she had joined a disco group. jazz.
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“
I got fired after the first concert by the leader of the group who said to me 'listen Flore, I don't care at all about the way you sing.
Me, all I care about is that everyone wants to fuck you.
Nobody wants to fuck you because you are there, with your broom in the ass.
You are ashamed of us, '
”she explained to reporter Tancrède Bonora at the microphone.
At this point, the young artist is completely devastated and cries on the phone.
"
I wasn't expecting that, it was extremely violent
."
The leader of this group would also have advised him to "
go out in a club, have coke and have sex with guys
".
“
I remember him touching me, I was his puppet
,” she adds.
He told me how to dress, how to move on stage.
I was not allowed to write.
I was really the green plant,
”she sums up.
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At the material time, Flore Benguigui was not filing a complaint.
“
I was 22 years old, I was a baby, absolutely unaware of the gravity of the situation
, she explains
.
We
are ready to be treated like that, to be harassed, morally and physically, in order to be able to achieve it.
We know we have to go through this
”
.
And to denounce the behavior of a label executive who asked him to simulate a sexual act in a song.
“
I am not able to do this.
I don't want to fake an orgasm into a microphone.
(...) You are super embarrassed when someone asks you that.
Especially since in general, you are not in a comfortable situation.
You are facing someone older, more experienced, who is judging you
”.
"Nobody speaks because everyone is afraid"
Flore Benguigui, singer in the group L'Impératrice
According to the singer, a lot of sexual predators exist in the music industry because of an omerta
.
“
Many know that girls are bound hand and foot to a label, to a group, to malicious people.
There is serious sexual violence in this environment and no one speaks because everyone is afraid
”
