We could have found ourselves in front of a pony (Pony X, electro duo who came third in the competition), a Tahitian trio (Amui) or a reggae dancehall specialist (LMK).
But it is a huge singer who came to meet us after her victory hands down - obtained thanks to her song "Voila" both to the public and to the jury chaired by Amir - in front of eleven other candidates during the great evening " Eurovision France ”broadcast Saturday evening on France 2.
Huge by her voice and her talent: petite, smiling and radiant, the young woman of 27 years, committed and feminist, who also wrote "I imagine", the song which allowed little Valentina to win the Eurovision Junior 2020, delivered a dazzling performance on the stage of the Plaine-Saint-Denis studio where the show was broadcast live.
However, Barbara Pravi could not yet believe that she had been chosen as the one who will represent France at Eurovision on May 22 in Rotterdam…
You are happy ?
Barbara Pravi.
Yes, even if I have a little trouble realizing ...
Yet you were the big favorite ...
I hadn't really looked at the predictions, which in my opinion were impossible to make: I followed the rehearsals, we were all so different, it really depended on taste…
However, you won it very largely ...
Well thank you !
I have been preparing for it for six years, just last year I would never have accomplished this, I was not ready, I was not able.
How did you experience your performance on stage?
For me, there was the front, which was super scary because we were all thinking, even though we were watching the performances of others in the audience.
I felt like I forgot my text.
Then the after, once I left the stage.
Between the two, I had a black hole, I no longer remember my performance.
I can just say it was intense, it cost me energy, but in a good way ... I know I gave.
You accumulate success: you wrote the song of little Carla for Eurovision Junior in 2019, then that of the winner, Valentina, last year ...
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Yes, the story is too pretty.
I write a lot for others, it represents 90% of my work.
The remaining 10% is for me ...
Tonight, how do you see your career?
Like a progression over six years.
It is as if I was in front of a field, that I had spent six years throwing lots of seeds, and that from time to time some had germinated.
And there, it's as if everything had blossomed at the same time.
But it's six years of sweeping, of crashing… Finally everything that is in "age", sorry, I am zero in gardening!
(
laughs
)
Do you have any projects other than Eurovision?
I'm going to unveil the video for "Voila" next week or the next, and I'm preparing an album.
Above all, I want to release three songs which will form a short film through a triptych of clips: “There”, “The day rises” and “The man and the bird”.
The songs are mixed and mastered, I will shoot the clips in two weeks.
Can't wait to get back on the scene?
Ah yes !
I did it three years ago, in the opening act for Florent Pagny, and now I'm really looking forward to it.
Just like going to Rotterdam to represent France at Eurovision Song Contest.
But first, I have to sleep, that I procrastinate, because tonight
(Saturday night, Editor's note)
, it's very nebulous for me ...
