At the start of the year, the musical sphere is on the lookout for new voices and Solann is one of them: her first mini-album, “Monstrueuse”, is released on Friday, before concerts and festivals, in France and neighboring countries, the list of which is growing.
The Café de la Danse, held in Paris on January 30, is already full. Before performing there as a headliner, this is where many spotted her opening for Patrick Watson, Quebec pop esthete, in the fall of 2023.
That evening, even if it was her first major scene, the crystalline voice of the young Frenchwoman with Armenian roots impressed. Just like his texts.
“No, I don’t even count the times I was called a bitch anymore/But it’s a female dog who raised Rome/Whores like me carry men’s dreams”, we hear in “Rome”, a single already released . In the myth, it was a she-wolf who collected the future founders of Rome. But we understand the strong image here, we see the uppercut to the patriarchy.
“Rome is a response to the attacks received from men. But others also came from women, very virulent, often not for my words but for photos from the modeling days that I was doing, which disappointed me , I expected a minimum of female solidarity”, explains the artist met by AFP.
The one who doesn’t say her age describes herself as “looking forward to Christmas morning and terrified at the same time”, while her first EP will be released and the dates will follow one after the other, with the Hyper Weekend festivals in Radio France in Paris on January 26 and Avec le Temps in Marseille on February 29, or at the Botanique in Brussels on April 30.
– “Like a car in a tree” –
“If we have to bet on someone, it’s on her, it can go quickly. There is a voice which will bring an obvious theatricality to the stage”, predicts for AFP Patrice Demailly, journalist specializing in the stage emerging. And to describe something “immediate, an assertive personality, distinguished writing between introspective and romantic”.
“Solann +sends+, talks about toxic relationships, the relationship with the body, between tradition and modernity, in a permanent tension,” continues this connoisseur.
This child of the ball – father actor who covers classics for high schools, mother stylist-actress-singer-dancer-costume designer – began her artistic journey with the theater. “But I realized that I preferred writing, theater, to acting, and that the song allowed me to talk about myself, that it was cheaper than a psychologist,” she smiles.
Everything changes when the self-taught musician sees a video of a Jeff Buckley live performance: “He was giving a gift to the public and he was purging something so as not to explode”.
And today, everything that is on her heart comes through in her titles. As in the cinematic song “Crash”, about a flawed love story. “For this one, I wanted to go straight, like a car into a tree,” describes the singer, sailing on the waters of pop between neo-folk and electro.
“Little Body” is about hers, which she “can’t” accept. “There, it was ‘here’s my neurosis’, it had to come out.” When asked if a therapy effect is emerging, she replies philosophically: “I don’t know if it will get better, let’s just say it gets better when I sing it.”
2024-01-18 07:01:17
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