First stage performance for a year and a half and first controversy on social networks for Eddy de Pretto. On Thursday June 17, the singer delivered a short piano-voice set as part of the Qui va piano festival, in the heart of Saint-Eustache church, near Les Halles in Paris. "
A little stressed
" at the idea of finding his audience after this long forced break, the interpreter of
Kid
began his performance with
What good
, a title apostrophic to God, on the difficulties of reconciling religion and his homosexuality. "
I don't think I'm ready to obey your Bible / I know what you like, I think I haven't read the right books
", he sang in particular under the nave of the Catholic building.
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A situation that has no more to its detractors who have manifested themselves, online, on social networks, ranging from their violent and insulting comments.
"
I would sing my words in all the places that welcome me to do it
", replied the musician on Instagram.
“
These homophobes, royalists, far-right anarchists will never win.
Love always wins
, ”he posted on Twitter in parallel.
To support his remarks, the singer also reported on a benevolent exchange he had with a young believer at the end of his performance.
For her, it is a "
false and obsolete reading to believe that the fact of being gay excluded sacred places or religion, while it is supposed to be open to those who desire it intimately,
”he reports.
The Microqlima label, which organized the concert, also denounced the online lynching to which their guest was subjected.
"
Eddy de Pretto is the victim, for simply singing about who he is in a church, of a homophobic online harassment campaign by an extreme minority, ranging from insults to death threats
," they posted on social networks.
These "
remarks are as usual the fact of a handful of agitators who should not be given more importance than that
", they added.