Clara Luciani was crowned “female artist” during the 35th Victoires de la Musique on Friday evening. Among men, it was Philippe Katerine who won. Timeless, Alain Souchon won the prestigious title of best album with “Ame fifties”.
For the female artist of the year, we expected Angèle, but it was Clara Luciani who was crowned for her album with the predestined name “Sainte-Victoire”. This is the beautiful story of French song: far from the cliché of the meteoric start, Clara Luciani had to wait almost a year for exploding “La grenade”, her feminist hit.
“I am distraught,” she commented, very moved when receiving her award. The 27-year-old singer from Martigues was opposed to Angèle, number one in sales in France in 2019, and Catherine Ringer, the voice of Rita Mitsouko.
“I have a wonderful audience and I’m still going to cry …” added Clara Luciani, her voice broken by emotion, which was crowned last year in the category “stage revelation”. “I use this media moment to tell them I love them. I have been worn by the public for a year. This price is ours. It’s a daydream. I wish all human beings to experience such mad joy. I told myself that Victories could not fall twice like lightning. It’s a happy lightning, of course! ”.
“Best concert” for Angèle
“A month ago, I said to myself Philippe, you suck as a singer”, declared for his part Philippe Katerine after having been awarded in “the phallus category, artist with quéquette”, as the laureate qualified in his style always so offbeat. He was opposed for this award to Alain Souchon and Lomepal.
He won the title of “male artist” on the heels of his completely crazy peplum album, “Confessions”. The stage performance also returns to him in this ceremony, coming out of a giant nostril, singing with a “boa” made of surgical gloves inflated like balloons.
For Alain Souchon, eternal dreamy dandy of 75 years, it is the tenth victory of music in his career. As usual, behind the elegance of the melodies – bundled with his sons Pierre and Charles – hides a certain gravity, like these young men sent yesterday to Algeria to wage war or the social elevator broken down today.
“C’est va ça vient” by Vitaa & Slimane, then won the title of “original song”, awarded by public vote. Vitaa praised “the Victory of the people”. In an evening where rap was a little forgotten in the nominees, it was PNL who won the price of the clip with “Au DD”, shot at the top of the Eiffel Tower and which had an international echo. Belgian artist Angèle won the “best concert” trophy.
Reform criticized
This year, the categories awarded went from 13 to 8. The labels of genres – rock, electro, world music, urban music and rap – disappeared, the category “album of songs” becoming “album” in short. better readability, according to the organizers.
But this reform cringes. “It’s a shame, it’s a world that closes instead of opening up, it’s a little sad,” regrets Martin Meissonnier, DJ, historical producer of world music. “There are few rappers and few women (none in the queen category” album “, editor’s note), who appeared before in urban music – even if I don’t like this term – with the r’n’b “Adds Eloïse Bouton, journalist and founder of Madame Rap, a media dedicated to women in hip-hop.
Manu Dibango even denounced a lack of “colors” in Le Monde. “It’s true that it lacks a bit of diversity, we will have to work on it,” recognizes Romain Vivien, president of the Victoires de la Musique. “It may be necessary to further enlarge the number of voters” so that the panel of appointed artists is “more representative of the diversity and parity of our society,” said Franck Riester, Minister of Culture, on Friday evening in France Info, before attending the ceremony.
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