Catherine Steenkeste / Getty Images Zaho de Sagazan, here in November 2023, when receiving the Francis Lemarque Prize for Revelation at the Grands Prix De La Sacem, in Paris.
Catherine Steenkeste / Getty Images
Zaho de Sagazan, here in November 2023, when receiving the Francis Lemarque Prize for Revelation at the Grands Prix De La Sacem, in Paris.
MUSIC – If it’s always nice above the clouds, as Zaho de Sagazan sings, everything leads us to think, this Friday February 9, that the interpreter of The symphony of lightning won’t have to climb so high into the sky to shine. The 24-year-old singer is one of the big favorites of the 39th edition of the Victoires de la Musique.
Nominated in five categories, including best album, female breakthrough and original song, the native of Saint-Nazaire is ahead of certain monuments of the recording industry, such as Étienne Daho, Aya Nakamura and Véronique Sanson.
“His album is insane”Zaho de Sagazan « is exceptional », describes it Vincent Frèrebeau, president of Victoires, met by AFP before the nominations were revealed. They salute a year of full houses, but above all a first album praised in unison by critics. Additional joy: it was certified gold last December, after having sold more than 50,000 copies.
It’s a lot. New hope of French song, Zaho de Sagazan, whose Zenith in Paris scheduled for mid-March is already sold out, was still an unknown a little less than a year and a half ago.
Zaho de Sagazan on Instagram
For the electronic music enthusiast of the 1980s, from Berlin, Jacques Brel and Barbara, it all started in 2015. As a teenager, Zaho Le Moniès de Sagazan, her real name, opened an Instagram account on the advice of her friends to share covers and original compositions.
“At that time, we could only make 15-second videos. So I had to make sure that, in this short period of time, something interesting happened, especially in the words. This is how I learned the principle of the chorus »declares the young artist in an interview with 20 Minutes. His register? Love songs. A paradox, for the one who says she has never known love yet, at present.
In 2019, things became clearer and a wider audience discovered his vibrant voice with such rhythmic diction on the small stages of a series of major music festivals, such as the Francofolies de La Rochelle, the Printemps de Bourges, the Nights of Fourvière and Rock en Seine.
From first part to first part
Two years later, the Nantes duo Mansfield Tya formed by Rebeka Warrior and Carla Pallone wanted her as the opening act for their concert at the Trianon in Paris. A few days later, it’s for Hervé’s, at the Olympia. “ I didn’t know Zaho. Nor anyone around me. It was done by feeling. I saw bits of his songs on social media. That was enough », explained the interpreter of Featherweight core has West France.
And then everything comes to a head. We are in 2022, Zaho de Sagazan does not yet have an album, but already finds himself with a turner, the same as Jeanne Added and Sexy Sushi. And while Wart Music is preparing her for a series of dates across France, the singer, only 22 years old, signs with Warner Chappell, a subsidiary of the Warner group.
Its president was looking for someone young to renew his catalog of heavyweights, already made up of Angèle, Aya Nakamura and Orelsan, we learn Telerama. The story goes that it is Enough – flagship title of The symphony of lightning – which opened the doors of the prestigious music publisher to him.
The symphony of lightning73 concerts
She surrounded herself for her record with two friends, Alexis Delong and Pierre Cheguillaume from the group Inüit, then set up her own label Disparate at Virgin Records, a company belonging to the giant Universal. The festival tour resumes, this time with the headliners. A few days before the release of the long-awaited first album, in March 2023, one of the artists she “ love most in the world » invites him to open four of his dates (including that of La Défense Arena): Stromae.
They will not take place, the Belgian singer being forced to cancel his entire tour for health reasons. This does not sound the death knell for Zaho. At the end of 2023, the singer will have 73 concerts alone on the clock.
From Paris to Laval, via Lyon and Saint-Ouen, his name has flooded the French territory, the radios and infiltrated other very select spheres, such as the fashion industry, where one of his songs accompanied a Louis Vuitton show at Paris Fashion Week in October. Will it be the same at the 2024 Victoires de la Musique? The answer, this Friday, live on France 2, from the Seine Musicale in Boulogne-Billancourt.
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2024-02-09 17:50:16
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