The Zaho de Sagazan storm hits the Victoires de la Musique.
The singer is nominated in five categories including that of revelation of the year.
The 39th Victoires de la Musique ceremony, also open as ever to the rap and R&B trends, will take place live from 9:10 p.m. on France 2 and France Inter, with Léa Salamé and Cyril Féraud at the presentation, Zazie for president of honor, while Bernard Lavilliers will receive a Victory of Honor.
His first album,
La symphonie des éclairs
, makes lightning speak.
Coming out in the categories of female revelation, stage revelation, album, original song and audiovisual creation of the year, the native of Saint-Nazaire, in Loire-Atlantique, is already making her mark, whatever happens at the Seine Musicale, gates of Paris.
Zaho de Sagazan
“is exceptional, his album is insane
,” Victoires president Vincent Frèrebeau recently told AFP.
Many might say to themselves: "We're going to do like Zaho", but she is out of the ordinary and not everyone perhaps has her level.
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“It’s quite “wow”, it went quickly, but we had time to see all the stages. First the first parts, where people didn't care, and then more and more people singing the songs
,” the singer with peroxide hair commented for AFP.
In just over a year and a half, the 24-year-old went from Point Éphémère, a small Parisian venue, to the capital's Zénith, scheduled for mid-March and already sold out.
His universe first blossomed live, ticking off the “3 Bs”, namely Brel and Barbara for skin-deep lyrics and Berlin for the electro atmosphere of the city's clubs.
Flame Pressure
Among the major awards, she can therefore win that of album of the year.
Not that of female artist, which sees Jain, Louane, Véronique Sanson and Aya Nakamura compete.
The latter is the most listened to French-speaking singer in the world.
His titles
Djadja
and
Copines
appear in the top five songs sung in French, and produced in France, the most streamed of all time on Spotify, the number one music platform.
However, this R&B figure, praised by Madonna's children, has so far only collected an additional award at the Victories, with the title of most streamed artist.
Or a statistical, commercial validation, far from artistic recognition from peers and professionals in the field.
The appearance of the rapper Gazo in the male artist category, in competition with Vianney, Étienne Daho and Pierre de Maere, comes from the same attempt at rebalancing.
We can also see a reflection of the Flames, a ceremony born last year, dedicated to rap and its trends, which praised Gazo and Aya Nakamura.
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Drive change
Certainly, Orelsan has won 12 trophies in the history of the Victoires de la Musique, thus surpassing the icon Johnny Hallyday (10), but his unifying style does not reflect the variety of rap popular with young audiences in France.
Small revolution during the revelation of the nominations at the beginning of January: the words
“between ourselves”
,
“small arrangements between friends”
and
“lack of diversity”
were finally pronounced in public, on the microphone, by Vincent Frèrebeau, new president of Victoires ( returned to a rotating position already occupied in 2005-06 and 2012-13).
“For a few editions, we started to hear unpleasant things about the Victories, and rightly so. I myself felt things that were wrong
,” he told AFP.
The manager, also at the head of the independent label sooner or later, therefore tried to instigate a change, with a new designation process which gives less pride to record companies.
It remains to be seen the verdict on Friday evening: Gazo or Étienne Daho?
Aya Nakamura or Véronique Sanson?
Josman or Zaho de Sagazan?