The NRJ Music Awards back to Cannes, "it really feels good"

• The 23rd NRJ Music Awards will be held in Cannes, live, after an edition recorded in Paris last year, due to the pandemic.

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  was able to attend the last rehearsals of this reunion ceremony.

“The red on the screens behind reminds us a bit too much of

n't it? And with blue, it feels like a political rally. Can we try blue and orange instead? “On the stage Friday, in the great hall of the Palais des Festivals, Amel Bent settled with the director Tristan Carné, by interposed microphones, the details of his painting with the rapper Hatik. This Saturday evening on TF1, the duo will compete with

in two categories: French-speaking collaboration of the year and French-speaking song of the year.

After a special Covid-19 edition last year, recorded over a whole week in Paris and without an audience, the NRJ Music Awards are back home, live.

"And that feels really good," says the coordinator of the ceremony.

Worried until the last moment of having to activate his possible plans B (with gauges reduced to 65% and even to 35%) because of the fifth wave, Jacques Grimal will finally be able to fill all the seats of the large auditorium.

The mask in the public "under penalty of exclusion"

“Last year, we had to do the show in very poor conditions. Cannes and the spectators, this is the very essence of the NRJ Music Awards. And I think everyone is happy to find this again. So, we will be very straddling the sanitary instructions. And even go further. The pass is of course compulsory for everyone. And we are going to distribute masks that must absolutely be worn, on pain of exclusion. "

With the pandemic, constraints remain.

And for its 23rd edition, the great TF1 show has chosen to adapt.

If the Briton Ed Sheerran and the Americans of the group Imagine Dragons will be on the Croisette this Saturday evening with Nikos Aliagas, the public on the spot will have to be satisfied with recorded performances by Coldplay and especially Adele, whose last album

was

released

eagerly awaited.

“For people watching their TV, the pleasure will be the same.

We had the choice between having them remotely or not having them at all, it was quickly decided.

Especially since for Adele, it is a European exclusivity.

She only did one show for the American channel CBS.

There was supposed to be another broadcast in Japan and it was canceled.

We are really very lucky, ”says Jacques Grimal.

Entertainment on the Croisette

Lucky also to be able to offer again in Cannes an animation that had been lacking.

Since Friday, on the forecourt of the palace, a small crowd (whose sanitary pass is also controlled) has been thronging in front of the barnum where NRJ relocates all its programming.

With Cauet, Manu Levy and all their cliques.

At the same time, in the convention center, the rehearsals continue.

And everything must be calibrated to the millimeter.

History to limit as much as possible the small technical problems which already enamelled the preceding ceremonies.

The list of famous “live hazards” that Clara Luciani would like not to extend.

"My soles are slipping, I can hardly move," explains the interpreter of

during his balances

.

What to do ?

Candidate for the title of female artist of the year, she will perhaps defend her title

, in competition for the "award" for the best song, with a little soda under the shoes.

The solution tested on Friday in repetition.

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