His relationship to the piano, Riopy considers it "
visceral"
.
“Depriving me of the instrument would be like taking my legs away from me
,” he says.
The 30-year-old was born twice.
The first, within a totally dysfunctional family.
The second, the day he put his fingers on the keyboard.
“I was 2 years old.
I have no memory of my life before,
he says.
When I was very young, I felt like I was playing Tetris with sounds.
In the beginning, I practiced making small pieces with my left hand.
Once I had mastered one, I would switch to the right hand, trying to completely differentiate it."
It is therefore in a totally empirical way that this autodidact was formed in music.
Without compass or compass, but armed with steely determination.
Jean-Philippe Rio-Py, his real name, was raised
"as in prison"
, he defines himself.
In a sect in Deux-Sèvres from which he was only able to escape when he came of age, after being abused for many years by a mother who...
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