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La Rochelle – "I never wanted to put feminism at the center of my songs": Clara Luciani, who seduced the Francofolies Friday, was propelled in a few months new sensation of French pop with its hit "La pomegranate ", which mostly tells its own story.
In La Rochelle, emerging artists who arouse a sudden excitement pbad a test often crucial to verify that the trend is confirmed beyond the sphere of Paris. At the Grand Théâtre, where she played before the Quebecois Pierre Lapointe, Clara Luciani did not make room sold out but she filled the curious and the converts.
She has interpreted most of the songs from her first album " Sainte Victoire " published in the spring: " Like you ", " We do not die of '', ' Eddy ', ' The Flowers ', but also two songs from the others she adapted in French: " The Bay ] "of the English group Metronomy, become" The Bay ", and" Bue Jeans "of the American Lana Del Rey.
Then the lanky singer of 25 years, the pace + lynchienne + under his brown bangs yé-yé, had the public dance with " The pomegranate ", his single at the disco bbad in which she exclaims: " Hey you / What are you looking at / You've never seen a woman / Who's fighting ".
" The question of feminism took hold of my song, obviously linked to the context of the Weinstein affair, which put a light on it that was not necessarily the one I gave it + The grenade + is a personal song, not a flag bearer "she says.
During her concert, Clara Luciani also marked the spirits with " Funny era ", played alone on the guitar, with for only other instrument its deep and powerful voice, somewhere between the one of the icon Nico, ex-muse of Velvet Underground, and its contemporary Fishbach.
If " Pomegranate " depicts a combative woman, this song describes another one that makes weapons, powerless to be able to be what is expected of her. " Me, I do not have the stuff, not the shoulders / To be a woman of my time ".
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" However, my songs do not mark any commitment.They speak primarily of what I lived ," insists the singer.
It is also through a disappointment in love that Clara Luciani is especially told in his first solo opus. An important step taken after having made his first in the group The Woman.
" I was tired of being just a performer, I felt that something was bubbling inside me and I needed to express it one way or another ", said the one who wrote her first songs on guitar at age 11, but tried her luck in music much later.
After various odd jobs, " I realized at 19 that this life would not make me happy." My satisfaction today is to tell myself that I paved my way alone I like the idea of the unraveling, I find it rewarding ".
She did not escape the unpleasant sensations, like " that of not appearing credible in the eyes of people, because we are a girl, we are all in eyelashes and hair. day when entering on stage with The Woman, a man said loudly "+ ah ben that one, they did not take it for his voice +".
" These adventures fed me and gave birth to songs that I am proud of ", says Clara Luciani, who grew up in Septème-les-Vallons, near Marseille, where she confesses to having lived a teenager under the sign of boredom, with literature as the only way out
" I used more books than music. Very early I imagined a kind of family of ideal women writers. I was printing photos of Patti Smith, PJ Harvey, Colette, George Sand, Virginia Woolf, Marguerite Duras … and I put them in my room. "
" These are women I have never stopped admiring. I never really left this cocoon. "
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