In our video section “The day when”, Valérie Marie recounts the day when, in transit at Toulouse-Blagnac airport, she was filmed playing the piano. A video that made the buzz on social networks. February 18, 2018, a day that changed her life.
All it took was a flight delay, a piano and a cell phone for Valérie Marie’s life to be turned upside down. On February 18, 2018, this 40-year-old Toulouse settles down at the piano at Toulouse-Blagnac airport while waiting for her flight to Paris. And as another traveler accompanies her singing, she plays the famous song Hallelujah, by Leonard Cohen, in the terminal. The scene is captured by a stranger and broadcast on social networks. In a few hours the video goes viral and will count 11 million views.
“I left everything for the music”
After a professional career of twenty years in the marketing sector, Valérie Marie leaves everything to return to her first love, the piano. “At the dawn of my forty years, I clicked, I decided to take my destiny in hand and become a composer of film scores.” Unfortunately the steps are difficult to climb. For five years, she finds herself on many unsuccessful projects. The world of music is ruthless when you come from the provinces. “This buzz is a tsunami. Overnight, I am invited in many media to tell behind the scenes of this video” says the pianist. From then on, she went from anonymity to notoriety. His artistic career begins. Check out his story in the video above.
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