Alexis Patri 2:00 p.m., September 11, 2021

Hollysiz is Isabelle Morizet's guest on Saturday in "There is not only one life in life".

The singer, who has lived in the United States and traveled a lot, sketches a certain idea of ​​what makes France and celebrates the Basque Country, explaining what she lacks in her country when she is not there.

INTERVIEW

After several years of living in a community of artists in the heart of New York, singer Hollysiz decided, five years ago, to settle in the Basque Country.

A radical change of life that she explains on Saturday at the microphone of Isabelle Morizet on Europe 1, in the show 

There is not only one life in life.

"The more I have traveled in the world, the more deeply French I am. I am a French woman, there is no doubt about it", affirms the one who publishes

Thank you all I'm fine

, her new EP.

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Her decision to leave New York says a lot about what the artist loves about her homeland.

"At one point, I missed France. I missed people, my friends, of course, but I missed France. I am deeply European and Latin," she said.

"I had taken what there was to take in New York, and I was missing the mess, the nuances, the political shouts. We do not agree. In the United States, everything is still very binary. We argue at the table, we drink shots, we don't agree. And then, in fact, we're still friends. I missed this life. "

"Keeping pace with the tides forces you to let go"

It is for all these reasons that Hollysiz joined the Basque Country. "I made this decision like pretty much everything I've done in my life: it matured for years. And then one morning is now, it's in the second," she smiles. . A Basque country where she devotes herself to the emblematic sport of the region: surfing. “I'm a Sunday surfer, I'm not going to try to create a legend!” She laughs. "I ride wonderful, gentle waves on a long board."

But the singer's attachment to this region goes far beyond postcard clichés.

"I have had an attachment to the Basque Country since I was born. I have been going there since I was very little. I already had childhood friends there. I have a whole history with this famous Basque Country ", she specifies.

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Hollysiz found with this move "the wonder of nature and a more human rhythm".

“We live like mad people in big cities,” she says.

"I wanted to suddenly withdraw and have time for the boredom, the wonder, to settle down."

An expectation of wonder that the Basque Country has been able to fill. “Basque nature is powerful: the countryside is powerful, the ocean is powerful, the mountains, the people. It's a land of witches. It's strong, the Basque Country. 'attracted too ", she analyzes." It's changing, they say that there are four seasons in the same day, it's never the same. Keeping pace with the tides, for example, you Forcing you to let go. Your day will be punctuated by nature, not by you who have decided that you take the metro at such and such a time. And that also changes a way of life. "