The Paris 2024 Olympic Games are (already) over. The closing ceremony, broadcast live on France Télévisions, took place on Sunday, August 11. The crowd, who came in large numbers to the Stade de France, was able to enjoy the vocal performance of Gabriella Wilson, who sang the United States anthem, in order to make the link between Paris and Los Angeles, where the 2028 Olympic Games will take place. The 27-year-old American singer, also known by the pseudonym HER – which stands for “Having Everything Revealed”, [“Avoir tout révélé”] – is well known to music lovers in her native country, but much less so in France. An observation that has prompted several media outlets, in recent hours, to want to teach their readers more about this singer-songwriter and musician.
It was on June 27, 1997, in Vallejo (California), that this R & B singer was born into a family of artists. Very quickly, she learned to master several instruments. Now, she plays the piano as well as the guitar and drums. At 10 years old, the little girl participated in the American talk show The Maury Showwhich allowed him to gain a certain notoriety by interpreting “Fallin” by Alicia Keys. A performance that impressed Alicia Keys so much that she decided to chaperone her. In 2009, at age 12, Gabriella Wilson starred in a TV movie with Justin Bieber. Seven years later, she unveiled her first songs in H.E.R. Volume 1. In the fall of 2018, she truly rose to fame when she was nominated in five categories at the 2019 Grammy Awards. At the end of the ceremony, she walked away with the coveted awards for Best R&B Album and Best Performance. Also involved in the fight for African-American rights, her song “I Can’t Breathe”in tribute to George Floyd, killed by a white police officer in 2020, was named song of the year in 2021.
Paris Olympics 2024: Gabriella Wilson’s performance followed by that of… Tom Cruise!
On Sunday, August 11, Gabriella Wilson had barely finished singing the American anthem when the credits for the film saga began. Mission : impossible resounded in the Stade de France. Simultaneously, star Tom Cruise appeared: the 62-year-old actor abseiled down onto the roof of the building, to the cheers of the excited crowd. An impressive stunt, worthy of a Hollywood production, which served to symbolise the passing of the baton between the French capital and the city of Los Angeles…
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