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  • The singer Hoshi released on June 21,

    Etoile flippante

    , a reissue of her album

    Rising Sleep

    consisting of thirteen additional tracks born after the first confinement.

  • From this summer, the 24-year-old artist is back on stage all over France.

“At first, I thought it was the end of the world. I am very anxious, anxious, so I was under my covers telling myself that we were all going to die, ”recalls Hoshi when asked how she experienced the first confinement. And then, the inspiration returned with the beautiful season. Under his pen were born texts evoking the strange period that the planet was going through. “I stopped because I told myself that in a year I wouldn't give a damn about confinement. I preferred to launch out on what I would have written if I had prepared a new album, ”says the 24-year-old author, composer and performer. Thirteen of these songs born in recent months appear on

Etoile flippante

, the reissue of the artist's previous opus,

Sommeil levant

, let the singer begin - finally!

- to defend on stage.

In the song "Scary Star" you sing about being afraid of "becoming a shooting star".

Are you afraid of being just passing through the musical landscape?

And in life in general.

I'm afraid of the ephemeral, I don't like the passing of time.

It scares me deeply.

So I want to do everything not to be a shooting star, I want to exist over time, whether it is more or less visible, beyond sales and all that.

I want to do this my whole life, actually.

I'm afraid it will stop now that I touch my dream with my fingertips.

In April, you found yourself unwillingly at the heart of the media attention when Fabien Lecoeuvre's comments about you were relayed on social networks.

Over a radio microphone, he said "You put a poster of Hoshi in your room, do you?"

But it is scary ”.

What was your first reaction?

It was a fan who sent me this.

I fell from a height.

I don't know Fabien Lecoeuvre, we must have bumped into each other once in the

Bonheur Years

, two years ago, but I don't remember much.

I wondered why he said that.

I showed this to Gia [Martinelli, his partner, also an author, composer and performer] and we were shocked for ten minutes.

We had a stray bullet, it was free.

I reacted quickly, I farted a bit a bit, it shocked me, outraged me, I didn't think about it, I needed to get this thing out [she first tweeted “We offers him a poster or a mirror?

I hesitate.

", Then" It is because of people like you that young people give up their dreams, not because of the record companies.

»] My mother called me an hour later telling me that it was serious what had happened.

She was in tears.

I tend to forget that my parents are watching my social media.

You have received many messages of support ...

Completely.

I was in the middle of mixing the album, I was preparing the tour and this thing kinda hit me.

The people were really lovely.

Lots of artists were nice and took my side.

I think it's beautiful, it proves that a lot of people are fed up with it all.

Clara Luciani recently told "20 Minutes" that she had discussed this with you, just as she had exchanged with Louane, who was targeted by sexist comments after a TV appearance.

There is solidarity between artists ...

We can even talk about sorority because between women in the industry, we discuss together.

Men are taking sides more and more and I find that good, it shows that it is a general problem.

With Clara, we talked a lot.

She was outraged.

He is someone I love so much.

Same with Louane, the comments she was the target on Twitter upset me.

I said to myself: “Whoa, what a period!

We are coming out of confinement, calm down frankly!

"

Has anyone ever tried to format you, tell you how you should dress, wear makeup, present yourself?

I was lucky - well, I say that but I don't know how it goes next.

When I arrived, I already had my bun, my guitar, my striped shirt (laughs).

I was not specifically told how I should dress.

It sometimes happens that I am offered something and I don't like it, but it doesn't go beyond that.

If I don't like the outfit, I say no.

In my team, it's benevolent, it's cool.

If the French song were a family tree, who would be your parents, sisters or spiritual cousins?

During one of my last concerts, a stage manager thought I was Catherine Ringer's daughter.

Throughout the evening he was telling me: “I love your mother!

I didn't understand because my mother is a secretary in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.

Two days later, he said to me: "You will give Catherine a kiss!"

»(Laughs) I like the Rita Mitsouko.

There are artists that I admire, I could not compare myself to them, but I love Gainsbourg, Brel, Léo Ferré… Indochine is perhaps the group to which I feel the closest in my choices today .

You are very active on social networks.

Is it important for you to express yourself in this way as well?

I want it, it can hurt sometimes, it's a bit tiring, you have to know how to let go and I have trouble (laughs).

My Twitter goes beyond me, my character and the music.

Behind, I am also a human and there are subjects which annoy me or please me.

It's cool to be able to discuss manga, the things I read.

It keeps a little link with the public.

It's a tool, you might as well use it.

In "Amour censure", you explicitly mention homophobia.

During the Pride Marches organized in France in recent weeks, several signs quoted the words.

Does that affect you?

It is very moving.

The song was born from what I experienced in my past, from the assaults that I suffered.

I initially thought it wasn't going to affect my audience because it's really a personal thing.

And in fact, it got over all that and I wasn't ready for that.

I am too moved.

At the Pride of Marseilles, on a sign, it was written: "One day, I will marry Hoshi".

This is so cute !

I tell myself that the song went beyond my project, who I am and it has served people.

That's why I make music.

You've come out.

What would you say to an artist who hesitates to “come out of the closet”, to openly discuss his sexual orientation?

Coming out changes not a career but the way people see you.

It then becomes a topic of discussion.

If the artists in the closet, in quotes, are not ready to assume it in interviews, on a daily basis, in their image, I understand them because it is a heavy burden to carry.

Whenever something happens, if there is someone you can hit on it can be me or all the other "out" artists, like Pomme or Eddy de Pretto who has taken threats. Not long ago.

It's quite recurrent so I understand people who want to protect themselves a little.

But I don't regret it at all.

You are, with Pomme or Suzane, several artists of your openly lesbian generation.

Ten, twenty or thirty years ago, such visibility was unthinkable.

How do you explain it?

It's beyond music.

We're all about the same age and we didn't have a lot of people representing us when we were teenagers.

I was a fan of lots of people, like Indochine or Mylène Farmer, but there was a lack of representation.

I think we wanted to become that person to reassure today's LGBT youth.

You recently found the scene.

Did you miss that?

It feels good !

These last months, I watched a lot of music on TV, concerts on Cuturebox and I told myself that I missed it, that I had made a lot of titles that I could not defend on stage.

There, there will be summer festivals, I will be able to attend concerts and be on stage.

It is on stage that everything takes shape.

It is the ultimate reward of having an audience in front of you.

When I got back on stage, people were masked, but I could see their eyes.

You have to be moved when you see this.

Frankly, there we feel alive.

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