2023-12-12 19:17:54
Music in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, as elsewhere, is feminine. On the rock, many of them play an instrument or give voice. Meeting with one of them: Adèle Lebon.
Little Adelaide, it was rather in front of a piano that her parents installed her after a few years of musical awakening supervised by Claude Aniel. But that was without counting on Santa Claus who gave him a battery-powered guitar the year he turned five.
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Instantly, she stops playing the piano to devote herself to the guitar, the real one, with strings, this time. Five years of lessons allowed him to learn the basics of the six-string instrument.
The birth of a rocker. • ©Adèle Lebon
Lulled from a young age by the eclecticism of her mother (Mylène Farmer, The Police, Telephone, etc.) and the hard rock cherished by her Led Zeppelin fan father, Adèle will create her own universe accompanied by a few musical friends.
Arnaud Revert, Stessie Detcheverry, Arnaud Goueffon and Antoine Beaumont will be his first stage partners, notably within the groups A² and Hope Circle. With the latter, they released an album, First Floor, and even covered famous titles like in Amalgame, in December 2012. A few days before Christmas, they sang La fille du Père Noël by Jacques Dutronc.
It was at the age of 17 that Adèle Lebon performed alone on stage for the first time, at La Chauve-Souris, after the insistence of Franck Berric, who saw a certain talent in her. The year 2018 is even synonymous with exposure on the national scene for Saint-Pierraise. In March, she performed at the Grand Rex as part of the final concert of Figures de femmes totem des overseas. Spotted by Jacob Desvarieux, from the West Indian group Kassav’, she represented the archipelago again during the Outre-Mer fait son Olympia concert in September of the same year.
I was very stressed but I have good memories of it, I met some great people in Paris.
At the same time, she continues to perform on the local scene with her group Spare Part, created in 2016 with other musicians from the archipelago. With Jean-Paul Vigneau, Pascal Hutton and Fabrice Jaccachary, they reinterpret well-known songs but also the group’s compositions attract crowds and the band takes to the stages of the archipelago’s festivals: Dunefest, Rock N’Rhum, Route Halifax-Saint -Rock.
Rock, but not only that. With other musical companions, Adèle offers other projects such as Les Troubadours, which give pride of place to improvisation and spontaneity. Arnaud Revert, Eric Siosse and Robin Chartier accompanied him, and with the latter a friendship was quickly born.
Music brought Adèle and Robin Chartier closer together • ©Clémence Cormier
The young guitarist will accompany him, once again, within Lulu 43 ephemeral punk group, during the summer of 2022. “ With our friends, we said to ourselves that we wanted to have fun playing punk together and that’s how the idea came about to cover songs from the archipelago in punk mode. explains Adèle. The Saint-Pierrais and Miquelonnais were thus able to dance to the catchy covers of Zig et Zon, Beauty of the Star et Choquette Powder near Saline 24 of the Yellow Waves or during Dunefest. A live album, Around in circlesis even recorded on this occasion.
In life, certain encounters are decisive. For Adèle Lebon, it was the one with director Christian Monnier and producer Xavier Fréquant on the set of Jenna, a short film on which she was assistant director, which opened the doors to the seventh art for her. She saw herself written a tailor-made role by Christian Monnier which she played in her native archipelago in October 2019.
. • ©It’s happening in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon
The filming is a great experience for Saint-Pierraise. Well supervised and advised by the director and the actors. She remembers the good state of mind that reigned at the Langlade colony:
We all lived and worked together, like a family.
Released in 2021, It’s happening in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon allows the brand new actress to be awarded the Prize for Best Supporting Actress in a Foreign Language Film at the Nice International Film Festival. For the moment, Saint-Pierraise is not considering starring in another film but she is not closing the door to any opportunity.
Last January, Adèle and her partner Annabelle put their work as radio host and programmer and nurse on hold to travel and settle in Montreal for a few months. Adèle found work in music, of course, in the Steve’s Music store, well known to enthusiasts. “I was a cashier and I also sold guitars” says the enthusiast. She worked there for a few months and discovered mixing in the city of a thousand lights.
Adèle, saleswoman at Steven’s Music • ©Adèle Lebon
The two young women put their backpacks down for the winter season in Val-d’Irène, very close to Gaspésie, where they both found work and it could well be that Canadian tourists will hear about Adèle Lebon and of its mixing tables. A new path, musical once again. A new path, in which there is no doubt that Saint-Pierraise will distinguish itself.
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