2023-07-13 08:19:54
ROMAIN PERROCHEAU / AFP Izïa Higelin did not make a wave at the Francofolies festival in La Rochelle, but still made a slight allusion to the controversy linked to Emmanuel Macron.
ROMAN PERROCHEAU / AFP
Izïa Higelin did not make waves at the Francofolies festival in La Rochelle, but still made a slight allusion to the controversy linked to Emmanuel Macron.
PEOPLE – As if nothing had happened, or almost. The concert of the singer Izïa Higelin at the Francofolies festival in La Rochelle, Wednesday, July 12, took place without the slightest hitch, and in front of an audience won over by this specialist in concert performances. To the point of making people forget the flammable context of the moment.
The daughter of Jacques Higelin thus contented herself with qualifying the famous La Rochelle festival as ” land of asylum “, his only direct reference to the controversy sparked the previous week. On stage, Izïa Higelin had indeed evoked a lynching of Emmanuel Macron in front of the spectators of the festival “ Guitar nights, where she performed on July 6, in the Alpes-Maritimes.
« It is not in the turmoil that one abandons the people one loves”
As the story goes South Westthe artist arrived on stage this Wednesday evening, starting with a piece in tribute to her father, who died in 2018, before releasing, hand on heart, a “ Good evening sober and tinged with emotion.
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Deprogrammed in the North, in Marcq-en-Barœul, where she was to perform this Thursday, July 13 on the occasion of the National Day, Izïa was however kept on the Francofolies poster by her boss, Gérard Pont. The latter believes that the 32-year-old French artist ” is part of the family of the Francofolies.
“We love her, that’s why we invited her. It is not in the turmoil that one abandons the people one loves” he added before the concert on franceinfo. Especially since Izïa’s father, Jacques Higelin was one of the leading artists of this essential festival of the French summer scene.
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However, the boss of the Francofolies says he was ” very shocked” by the words of Izïa, bringing in passing her support to ” all elected ».
Investigation opened despite apologies
During the controversial concert of July 6, given near Nice, the interpreter of the tubes Lonely, Crazy or The wave began to imagine how Emmanuel Macron could be publicly lynched by the spectators of his concert.
She had spoken between two songs, at the microphone, of an Emmanuel Macron “20 meters above the ground, like a giant human piñata”. “And there, we would bring him down. (…) And we would all have our bats with our little nails and, in a bengal fire of joy, of living flesh and blood, we would knock him down, but gently you see…”she continued, in a sequence relayed on social networks.
Quickly, the Nice prosecutor’s office announced the opening of an investigation targeting the singer for “public provocation to commit a crime or misdemeanor”, after complaints from spectators after the concert. Monday evening, in the columns of West Francethe singer had nevertheless said to herself “ Sorry “than his words” have been misinterpreted, decontextualized”.
“At no time, of course, did I want to incite violence or hatred”also defended Izïa. “It’s a story, an improvised and surreal link between two titles that talks about everything and nothing and that shouldn’t be taken at face value”she added to evacuate the controversy and return to the essence of her work: the music.
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