Listens to eight figures on musical platforms, international tour in sight: "
Eurovision, it changed my life
", savors the French Barbara Pravi, who lives a "
blessed
"
comeback
with the release of her first album.
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His second place in the famous competition, with the song “
Voilà
” and his flights to Piaf, tastes of victory.
"
There are still two years, the return was a moment of anguish,
" she told AFP.
“
There, I feel privileged, it's a somewhat blessed, incredible period.
I never imagined that I would soon be touring the world, that my album would be expected
”.
The singer-songwriter was able to measure her new notoriety while on vacation this summer in Portugal.
"
I now notice the looks, the whispers where my name is pronounced, it's all funny
", she narrates.
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“
Once, on the terrace, I was having a drink and three people came to tell me in English that they were happy to have taken their tickets for my concert in April 2022 in Lisbon, whereas before I was not known in Portugal
”.
No risk of it being a flash in the pan.
The curly brunette, not yet thirty, matured her first album for seven years.
That is, roughly, the period since which it entered the musical landscape.
The young woman has made her ranges by releasing her own singles in recent years or by composing for others (from a mainstream artist like Yannick Noah to the trendy electro-pop of Terrenoire, for example).
"It's a path"
The artist gives to hear the voices and the ways that a woman can take over the course of the existence with
On does not enclose the birds
, which leaves Friday (at Capitol, disc mainly refined with his old accomplice Igit, and Vincha , young feather recently requested by Julien Clerc).
Listening, it's like a feature film that unfolds.
"
I built this album like a story, everyone has their own imagination, it's a path
".
The scenes parade between amorous outbursts (
Le jour se leve
), quest for freedom (
Saute
), self-assertion (
The woman
, to which
my awkwardly
responds
). The trials of a lifetime are still there. In her compositions before Eurovision, Barbara Pravi was already laying bare, between domestic violence (
Le Malamour
) or abortion (
Chair
). Here, it is Alzheimer's disease which draws a poignant piece (
La ritournelle
) and suggests a live interpretation on stage.
“
People will come to the concert and expect to be rushed.
For La ritournelle, I will have to work on my emotions so that I do not explode, because it affects something very sensitive, I am talking about my grandmother, the number of children in the song corresponds to reality
”, enlightens- she does.
Character instruments
The musical dressing is organic, with beautiful breaths of piano and strings.
"
It is a reference to Prokofiev
(a major composer of the 20th century),
the idea that all instruments are like characters, on La ritournelle, the piano twists thus at one point
".
Arrangements that will take on their full significance on stage, in an XXL tour that offers her a nice nod with two dates in the Parisian hall of the Trianon, where she was a waitress in another life.
“
This is where I learned to change a keg of beer, to make a mojito, where I spilled my first order on a customer;
I'm still friends with people who worked there
”.
A slice of life that can be found in “
Je sers
”, one of his old songs, a memory of blackened notebooks behind his bar, future pieces.
"
It was 10 years ago, right off the bat, I was 18: going back to this room now, on stage, I almost see mystique
(laughs)".
