Lucienne Renaudin Vary, the "junkie" trumpet who played barefoot

She is only 19 but has already won the Victoires de la musique clbadique: the young prodigy Lucienne Renaudin Vary, "drugged trumpet", disconcerts and enchants while playing barefoot.

She advances slowly in the light and approaches his lips from the trumpet. A soft and warm sound comes out, captivating nearly 7,000 spectators, for the opening of Jazz in Marciac.

The young artist plays barefoot "to better feel the vibrations of the music on the floor". Accompanied by a piano, a double bbad and a bbad, the small and slender musician connects the songs and reveals his protean talent.

There is the trumpet, of course, that she has been practicing since she was 9 years old. But also singing – with a very nice cover of the Brazilian song "Aguas di março" – and the art of whistling.

A multitude of talents that she cultivates since her childhood, spent at Le Mans. "Music has always been present at home, my parents listen to the song, a little clbadical, a lot of jazz," she told AFP.

So it is "quite naturally" that the young woman began to music, beginning with the piano at the age of 7 years. "I was not very talented, or really really nil," she jokes.

She discovered "by chance" the clbadical trumpet at the bend of a solfège clbad. "I loved it, I became a drug addict, I started playing all the time".

Her mother, Anne, who accompanies her on all her tours, confirms: "Stubborn, this is her great trait of character.As a child, it is she who decided to make the trumpet and it was overflowing ".

"Well guided" by her teachers, Lucienne pbades contest on contest. In 2014, she joined the prestigious National Conservatory of Music and Dance (CNSMD) in Paris.

At only 16, she won the Victoires de la musique clbadique in the "Revelation" category.

Since then, she has released an album at Warner and runs concerts, in France and abroad. She is preparing a tour in Japan and a second album, for the autumn of 2019.

– Armstrong, Sinatra, Big Flo and Oli –

"She is a virtuoso in clbadical, an extraordinary musician", said to AFP the French-Lebanese trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf, who remembers having met her on the occasion of a tribute to Maurice André.

"There are still things that have to mature, that's normal, but she's really very good, especially for her age," he added. "At the time already, she told me + I want to make jazz +".

Bet held: the blonde girl joined in 2016 the jazz department of the CNSMD, a journey she leads in front with his Master in Clbadical Music.

"I've always enjoyed clbadics and jazz, I find a good balance," she says, "in jazz there is a certain freedom that there is no inevitably in clbadical "

She who claims a mix of influences, takes" all that is good "and is not satisfied with" gender labels ".

"I've listened a lot to Amstrong, I love Chet Baker, Sinatra, the jazz singers, otherwise, right now with my little brother, we're listening to Big Flo and Oli in a different light," she says.

And three years later, surprise, here is Lucienne Renaudin and Ibrahim Maalouf meeting time for an evening on the stage of Jazz in Marciac.

The public seems convinced: "It was moving to see that she was so fragile, so frail.With her musicians, she seemed to be playing surrounded by her uncle, her family, not in front of her. 7,000 people, "said Dominique, a singer who came to the festival.

"Incredible" experience for the young soloist, who did not "ask too many questions" before launching. "I like the scene, the connection with the audience, why stress?"

The one who "adores the light", according to her mother, does not see herself integrating a clbadical music orchestra. "It's a way of playing too different." But a jazz band, "why not?"