Get ready for the 66th edition of Eurovision! The French song has already been chosen. All about the piece that represents France in 2022, the date and place of the competition…
Get ready for the big one Eurovision Song Contest, which, like every year, promises to glue us to our armchair! This year, it’s the group Alvan & Ahez who will represent France in Turin with their song Fulenn, interpreted entirely in Breton. For the broadcast Eurovision France, You decidewhich made it possible to choose the piece that will be sung by the French at the 2022 edition, twelve songs were in competition, but this is the title of the Breton group which collected the votes of the jury as well as that of the viewers. Who will manage to dethrone the Italian group Maneskinwho had won the victory in May 2021 with the title Shut up and good? Answer very soon…
The song Fulennwhich means “spark” and “young lady“, is a anthem”feminist“ and to an ode to “women’s freedom“, according to France 3 Brittany. It’s here second time that the French song at Eurovision is in Breton. In 1996, Dan Ar Braz and L’Héritage des Celtes sang Diwanit Bugale in Oslo, Norway. She had been ranked 19th out of 23.
The Eurovision Song Contest is due to take place from Tuesday May 10 to Saturday May 14, 2022. This is the 66th edition of the competition.
The Eurovision Song Contest 2022 is to take place at Pala Alpitour in Turin, Italy. This is the third time the country has hosted the competition, after the 1965 and 1991 editions.
Estelle Denis: why she is disappointed with the choice of the song
Estelle Denis has, she, expressed her disappointment with the song chosen to represent France at Eurovision … sung in Breton. In his show Estelle Nooncolumnist Pierre Rondeau lamented: “Admittedly, it’s not written anywhere in the rules, there’s no obligation to sing in such and such a language, but I had the memory that we defended the French language and especially the Francophonie. (…) The language of France is French“. And Estelle Denis to nod: “But yes ! (…) We just have to do the Localvision ! Or the Regiovision!“.