France Télévision unveiled on Wednesday the list of 12 songs and artists selected to represent France at Eurovision next May. And there is a song in Breton, “Fulenn” by the group Alvan and Ahez.
We believe in! Bretons will perhaps represent France this year at Eurovision.
France Télévisions revealed on Wednesday February 16 the 12 songs and artists in the running to defend the tricolor chances next May in Turin. In this list, a song in Breton by Bretons: “Fulenn” by the electro group Alvan and Ahez.
In the description of the Eurovision site we can read that this group is made up of two Breton formations. Alvan is a jack-of-all-trades musician from the Rennes electro scene. who opened for Petit Biscuit or Ofenbach and notably performed at the Transmusicales. Ahez is the trio composed of Marine, Sterenn D. and Sterenn L., three Breton singers of traditional heritage who met in high school. Accustomed to the scene (Interceltic Festival of Lorient, Celtic Connections of Glasgow), they tell in their texts in Breton, contemporary stories mixed with myths of their region.
Fulenn, the song that the artists want to bring to Eurovision, is the astonishing encounter between the musical worlds with electro and traditional singing. The lyrics, poetic and mystical, freely take up the Breton legend of a young woman who emancipates herself from the gaze of others by going dancing at nightfall in the light of a bonfire (Fulenn translates to both “spark” and “maiden”).
The public and a jury will choose the song that will represent France at Eurovision during a broadcast on March 5 on France 2.