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  • Barbara Pravi will represent France at Eurovision 2021 with the song

    Voilà

    .

  • "If I ever presented myself for Eurovision, it had to be with a song that I could wear, that was of value to me, of which I would never be ashamed," she explains to

    20 Minutes

    .

  • “It was quite an adventure,” recalls Igit, who co-wrote the text with her.

    The idea was to have a song that spoke of Barbara at best, without being egotistical.

    It was very hard to find that fine line.

    "

Barbara Pravi will represent France at Eurovision 2021 in May with

Voilà

.

This information would have seemed quite absurd to the person concerned if it had been predicted to her a year ago.

It is Igit, the author, composer and performer with whom she has co-signed several songs for other artists who, for two years, has tanned her so that she can rub shoulders with the famous musical competition.

She was reluctant at first.

By fear.

The 27-year-old singer is well aware of what defending the French chances entails.

Among others: singing live in front of a hundred million viewers.

"If I ever presented myself for Eurovision, it had to be with a song that I could wear, that was of value to me, of which I would never be ashamed", she explained to

20 Minutes in

mid-January .

She therefore got down to work to meet these criteria.

“It was quite an adventure,” recalls Igit.

The idea was to have a song that spoke of Barbara at best, without being egotistical.

It was very hard to find that fine line.

"

"A French word quite well known abroad"

They both talked a lot about what and how the lyrics should tell.

During one of these exchanges, Barbara Pravi concluded her argument with a "voila".

This was the trigger.

"We looked at each other, there was a kind of revelation," Igit tells us.

We thought we had found the title of the song.

In addition, it is a French word quite well known abroad, so in the context of Eurovision it was not bad.

"

The words arise.

"What to say to you that another's lips won't tell you?"

It's not much, but I, all I have, I put it there, here it is ”, proclaims a verse announcing a cavalcade of“ here ”in chorus as Piaf made gallop his“ padam ”.

In this exposure, the co-author and performer expresses her vulnerability and her humility.

“Finally look at me.

And my eyes, and my hands, all I have is here, it's my mouth, it's my cry ”, exposes the one who asks that we love her,“ as we love a friend who doesn't care. goes forever ”- one of the most beautiful formulas in the text.

“It's a song that's true,” Barbara Pravi told us a few weeks ago.

She hastened to clarify: “Well, true for me: when I sing it, every time, I'm almost in a trance.

I put a lot of emotions into it and I think it shows.

In what I wanted to present, there was only that which could count: I want that it touches, that it is fair.

"

"A certain idea of ​​French song"

Igit specifies that by writing it, both had the ambition to deliver an accessible text, like the “very readable songs” of Aznavour, Brel or Barbara, which appear in their common musical Pantheon.

Igit himself had participated in

Destination Eurovision

in 2018, the France 2 program won by the duo Madame Monsieur.

At the time, he was very motivated at the prospect of representing France with a waltz.

But his

Lisboa Jerusalem

had to be content with fifth place.

He continues: “The intention, with

Voilà

, is to go and defend a certain idea of ​​French song.

To bring it up to date and show people that this part of the culture is not dead, far from it.

"

Barbara Pravi knows that the marathon she is starting up to the Eurovision Song Contest will be “a lot of work”.

“I believe that a song that has emotion can be exported and I wish that to 

Voila,

 ” she reacted hotly after her victory at the French selection.

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