Eight -digit listenings on musical platforms, an international tour in sight: "Eurovision, it changed my life", savor Barbara Pravi, who lives a "blessed" back to school with the release, this Friday, August 27,From his first album we do not lock the birds.
The singer-songwriter was able to measure her new notoriety on vacation this summer in Portugal."I now notice the looks, the whispers where we pronounce my name, that is funny," she narrates."Once, on the terrace, I was drinking a drink and three people came to tell me in English that they were happy to have taken their tickets for my concert in April 2022 in Lisbon, while before I was not knownin Portugal".
The curly brunette, not yet thirty, matured her first album for seven years.Or, basically, the period since which she entered the musical landscape.The young woman has made her ranges by taking out her own singles in recent years or by composing for others (passing from a general public artist like Yannick Noah with the trendy electro-pop of Terrenoire, for example).
The artist gives to hear the voices and the ways that a woman can take over existence with the birds, which comes out on August 27 (at Capitol, mainly refined with his old accomplice Igit,and Vincha, a young feathered feathered recently by Julien Clerc).
Listening, it's like a feature film that unfolds."I built this album as a story, everyone makes their own imagination, it's a path".The scenes parade between romantic impulses (the day gets up), quest for freedom (jump), assertiveness (the woman, to which my clumsy meets) responds).The trials of a life are always there.In his compositions before Eurovision, Barbara Pravi was already exposed, between domestic violence (Malamour) or abortion (flesh).Here, it is Alzheimer's disease that draws a poignant song (the refrain) and suggests an interpretation inhabited on stage.
"People will come to the concert and expect to be jostled.For the refrain, we will have to work on my emotions, so that I do not explode, because it touches something very sensitive, I speak of my grandmother, the number of children in the song corresponds to reality ", enlighten-Ar.
The musical dressing turns out to be organic, with beautiful breaths of piano and strings."It is a reference to Prokofiev (major composer of the 20th century), the idea that all the instruments are like characters, on the refrain the piano is thus twisted at one point".
Arrangements that will take all their relief on stage, in an XXL tour which offers her a good wink with two dates in the Parisian room of the Trianon, where she was waitress in another life.
"This is where I learned to change a beer barrel, to make a mojito, where I overthrow my first order on a customer; I am still a friend with people who worked there".A slice of life that is found in "I use", one of his old songs, memory of blackened notebooks behind his bar, future songs."It was 10 years ago, right, I was 18 years old: go back to this room now, on stage, I almost see mystical (laughs)".