Male revelation of the 2021 Victoires de la Musique, Hervé performed on Tuesday evening on the Vieilles Charrues stage, thus realizing a "dream".

The Breton singer begins to identify his audience, after being discovered by many thanks to his "special containment" clip of "Si bien du mal", posted online in March 2020.

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"I would be unable to say who my audience is."

Realizing his "dream for years", the singer Hervé was on Tuesday evening in concert at the Vieilles Charrues.

One of the first opportunities for him to discover his audience, after being revealed to the greatest number via the clip for his song

Si bien du mal

, published at the end of March 2020, at a time when he was making pancakes in his kitchen. father, in Brittany.

And if it is still difficult today to say who is listening to it, it is because its audience is eclectic.

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At Emilie Mazoyer's microphone, Hervé explains what the fans who come to talk to him in the street, on the train or after concerts look like.

"What's great is that it goes from children who come, too kikis, with drawings saying to me" Pancakes, pancakes, pancakes! ", To punks of 65 or 70, who were listening the Clashes and which capture the music I make and my references, "he marvels.

"So there is everything. It was really a dream for me to see kids and elders like my music."

"I didn't want my music to be such a dumb elitist thing"

Speaking to all generations was one of Hervé's objectives when he composed his album 

Hyper

. "I produced the whole album in my room. And, at that time, I had this dream of timelessness, of nobility in the instruments, of having sounds that were a little referenced, but which could possibly touch everyone, ”he explains. "I didn't want my music to be a dumb elitist thing, or a fun fair thing."

"I come from a fairly popular background, so I also like mainstream songs," adds the one who wrote for Johnny Hallyday. Hervé also took advantage of the Carhais festival to pay tribute to the traditional and popular music of his region, bringing his father's bagad (a traditional Breton orchestra) on stage at the start and end of the concert. A tribute obviously appreciated by the Breton public.