"I am the one we do not see", she sings at the opening of her second album, sublime, "the Failles" which had already earned her, last year, the trophy of "the revelation album" .
However, we only saw her, this Friday evening, with her strange pocket piano.
Apple this time won the queen award, crowned female performer of the year at the Victoires de la Musique.
At 24, she became the youngest of the winners, succeeding Clara Luciani, 27 last year.
Even earlier than Jain, 25 when she won in this category in 2017.
"I'm the one you can't hear," she sings.
We heard her this Friday night.
"I hope this industry will be more and more
safe
for women," she hammered on the podium.
Symbol of a new generation that does not intend to be silent or to fade away, symbol of a movement for the liberation of speech in the world of music, she had already launched a paving stone in the pond, Thursday, by publishing a letter open evoking the gender-based and sexual violence she suffered from 15 to 17 years old.
“My arrival in music was traumatic,” she testified.
She couldn't hold back her tears
"I am hiding on the verge of tears," she sings.
Friday evening, she could not hold them back, she who “never cries in real life”.
What a trajectory that this Apple, soft voice and serious texts, who started the music at 6 years old, song and cello, in Caluire, in the Lyon region.
Last year, she went to the Victories on tiptoe, timidly, little Apple on the great stall of French song.
It was only his second television.
A year has passed.
She felt more at ease, she confided to us on Thursday.
More legitimate, too.
It must be said that she was able to settle at high speed in the French musical landscape yet in full sanitary fog.
In August, it lights up the Festival des festivals.
Always on the edge of emotion, on edge, Apple opens up, frees itself.
Last Saturday, on France 2, during the great evening of "Pop Help", she surprises, leaves the boxes, performs in a duet "I have the blues of you" with Gilbert Montagné.
And this Friday, apotheosis "Grandiose", the name of the title that she brilliantly interpreted, a suspended moment of incredible fragility and strength.
"I am the queen of dramas," she sings.
At 24, Claire Pommet (her real name) is - already - the queen of the ladies.