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"The economic damage will be enormous in our profession". Guest of "L'Éwée sauvage" this Wednesday, rapper Akhenaton returned to the financial consequences of confinement against the coronavirus. If the pandemic affects almost the entire economy, artists, festivals and concert halls are particularly affected, explains the member of the cult formation IAM.
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"The damage will be enormous in our profession"
"In our sector of activity, it is carnage," he affirms at the microphone of Europe 1. "I have a particular thought for small festivals, the intermittent of the show which have a somewhat fuzzy destiny. in their windshields, or even for halls that have advanced fees for concerts that cannot be held and do not know how to balance their budget. We will see the results after [the end of the crisis, editor's note] but the damage will be enormous in our profession, "he predicts.
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And Akhenaton knows what he's talking about, since the IAM group suddenly had to end their tour because of the Covid-19. "We had already made a date in Grenoble, Clermont-Ferrand and Saint-Étienne, we had been working on it for months ... Theoretically, today we should be in Canada for a concert with 100 musicians, an event that we had prepared for two years, "he explains. But may the fans be reassured, almost all the dates of this tour could have been "postponed".
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Difficult to abandon a containment tour
Even if the rapper takes this interruption with philosophy ("that's life, you have to accept things"), the fact remains that this step was difficult to take. "It's complicated to be in the excitement, on the tour bus with everyone, and suddenly move to confinement." Separated and cloistered at home, like 4 billion other people around the world, the members of IAM continue however "to make music" each one on their side and to take care of each other: "We are called we talk to each other every day, we encourage each other when some have the blues, especially those who are alone. "