Norman rapperOrelSan won three awards on Friday night at the 37th Victoires de la Musique. At 39, he won the categories “male artist”, “song” with ” The smell of gasoline », and audiovisual creation for his documentary “Never show that to anyone”.
« The smell of gasoline is a song inspired by the tensions that run through France. On a clip fleetingly showing the “yellow vests” and evoking in a stylized and danced way multiple situations of violence, she points to an inability to dialogue to get along. Deploring a society where “everything is binary”, she denounces both the extremes and a political class that is no longer sufficiently representative.
His conclusion is pessimistic : “We never forgive ourselves in a world where nothing is erased/
We spit on each other/We don’t know how to live together/
We are fighting to be at the front in a plane that is going straight to the crash”.
This is the second time that OrelSan has won a hat-trick at the Victoires de la Musique, the previous one being in 2018. In total, he now has nine “victories” in his career, one step ahead of monuments like Johnny Hallyday and Alain Souchon. The record of thirteen trophies is jointly held by -M- and Alain Bashung.
His record « Civilisation »released in November, was the best-selling in France in 2021. Its audience thus extends far beyond the rap sphere alone. “Among French-speaking musicians, he is one of those who write the best. He really digs, he goes far”had greeted Friday morning, on France Inter, Stromae, honorary president of the 37th Victoires organized at La Seine Musicale, in the Paris region.
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The other expected coronation of these 37th Victoires de la Musique was that of Clara Luciani. The singer won the female artist trophy and the album awardwith ” Heart “. In total, she has already obtained four Victories in her career.
“I am living a waking dream. I’m so moved that the public grabbed this record in a moment of darkness… To imagine that I was able to bring a little light, it’s a very beautiful gift »she told the press.
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The other attraction of the evening was the honorary president, Stromae, who performed his title ” Health “ with an avatar, opening the ceremony. This double of the Belgian, like an animated film on the giant screens behind him, thus showed the public the gestures to be made on the choreography of the piece. This performance gives a foretaste of the launch of his tour-event, which should revolve around paintings and make use of new technologies.
« Multitude », his new album, one of the most anticipated of the year, will be released on March 4. But he will deliver his new songs in preview during his first three shows in Brussels on February 22, Paris on February 24 and Amsterdam on February 27. Tickets for these three concerts were sold out in 15 minutes on the day they went on sale on December 3, his record company said.
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A Victory of Honor was finally awarded to Jacques Dutronc, 78 (after Jane Birkin last year), awarded by his son Thomas, for his entire career. They both sang ” And me and me and me “standard of the father, before a great new tour together.