Here are the songs from France's selection for Eurovision 2022

• Eurovision France, it's you who decide

  will be broadcast live on Saturday March 5, 2022 on France 2 from 9:10 p.m.

• Twelve songs will compete to represent France at Eurovision 2022 in Turin (Italy) in May.

• 20 Minutes invites

  you to discover these twelve songs.

Who will succeed Barbara Pravi?

Last year, the singer of

had offered France a second place at Eurovision – a podium that the tricolor representatives had not reached for thirty years.

On March 5, at 9:10 p.m. on France 2,

, presented by Stéphane Bern and Laurence Boccolini, will allow a jury (read box) and you, viewers, to designate the song that will defend the French chances in Turin (Italy) where Eurovision 2022 will take place. Competing in this French selection: ten solo artists, a duo and a quartet.

Singers and singers jostled at the gate.

If, last year, France Télévisions received 685 applications in total, it received more than 3,000 for this edition.

In the lot, only 40 suitors were invited to audition live in January in Paris.

“There was a Pravi effect.

She reconciled Eurovision with the artists who were a little afraid of it, notes Alexandra Redde-Amiel, director of entertainment at France Télévisions and head of the tricolor delegation.

We had very different repertoires, even metal proposals.

The rock is ultimately not there but the twelve songs selected brew wide.

Their common point: all were written or co-written by their interpreters.

Let's review them.

Joanna – “Navigator”

In 2021, Joanna made a remarkable appearance at the Vieilles Charrues festival.

It was a few months after the release of his album

on which appears in particular 

, a piece sung with Leylow and whose clip is approaching 2 million views on YouTube.

The 23-year-old artist who is used to mixing r'n'b, trap and electro will offer

, an up-tempo song, a hymn to personal emancipation.

Elliott – “The Tempest”

It's been several years that Elliott, 24, passed by the conservatory where he learned the piano and the lyrical song, rolls his hump.

Originally from Alsace, he participated in season 3 of

– his career stopped just before live broadcasts – then joined Cover Garden, a collective that posted cover videos on YouTube.

He also excelled in dubbing.

His song,

, is a mid-tempo ballad with an epic, restless chorus evoking resistance in the face of adversity.

SOA – “Alone”

Nathan and Ludysoa are brother and sister, grew up in Madagascar and come from Toulouse.

Pascal Obispo, their coach in

season 9 – they went as far as knockouts – continues to support them.

They have signed with the Jo & Co label (Hoshi, Claudio Capéo, Le Motif…) and are digging a furrow between pop and rap.

carries a comforting message – “If you feel left out of the world, don't worry the Earth is round.

sounds

.

Joan – “Madame”

Joan, alias Johanna Serrano, starred in the musical

a few years ago .

At 25, with a lot of charisma, she tried her luck with

, a song of which she is the author and which evokes in an assumed way a cabaret atmosphere of the 1950s. .

She spins, spins, spins, to forget her,” she sings, telling the story of a woman who gets drunk on dancing to overcome heartache.

Marius – “Love Songs”

It is the emotion card of this selection.

Marius co-wrote his ballad with Igit – who was also the co-author of

– and his asset is his sensitivity which is expressed in his embodied performances.

The artist from Lyon sings: “I didn't like love songs.

They all sing the same thing, they all talk about you and me and about this love that is going away..." Words that seem to echo Fanny Ardant's famous line in

 : "I'm listening only the songs, because they tell the truth.

(…) They say: “Don't leave me… Your absence has broken my life…” or “I am an empty house without you… Let me become the shadow of your shadow…” or “Without love, we are Nothing at all…" "

Elia – “Telephone”

Elia, a 23-year-old Parisian, is produced by Booba, who invited her last year to sing featuring his track

.

The twenty-something, who went through hypokhâgne and khâgne at the prestigious Henri-IV high school, wants to make her place on the music scene.

With her dancing song, she is the voice of the “telephone generation” which “expects nothing from anyone”.

Helene in Paris – “Paris my love”

Musical revelations do not wait for the number of years.

Helene is 66 years old.

Born in Casablanca (Morocco), she made a career as an interior designer in the United States, before returning to settle in Paris a handful of years ago.

She started singing… during the first confinement.

 is her declaration of affection for the French capital, to a jazzy tune.

Alvan and Ahez - "Fulenn"

In Breton, “fulenn” means “sparks” and “young girl”.

Alvan, 29 years old from Rennes, specialized in electro music, collaborated with the group Ahez, made up of three traditional Breton singers, Marine, Sterenn D. and Sterenn L. Their meeting made… sparks.

The song is inspired by a Breton legend: a young woman who spent her nights dancing in the forest without worrying about outside looks... The effective electro melody combined with the folk accents of the song, entirely in Breton, make this title the most singular and intriguing selection.

As a reminder, France has already been represented by a song in Breton at Eurovision: in 1996, Dan Ar Braz and L'Héritage des Celtes performed

("Let children be born").

Cyprien – “My family”

Cyprien Zeni was a finalist for

last year.

This 22-year-old father, who lives in Toulouse, celebrates his loved ones while paying homage to his Reunionese roots, hinting at a few Creole words in the lyrics.

"Wherever I go you remain my family, in my sorrows, in my joys, my delusions, far from the body, close to the heart whatever I say", sings, on a dancing rhythm, the one who left Reunion three years ago.

Julia - "Hush"

"I'm not a baby doll," sings Julia, 20, who was once the protege of Mylène Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat.

She wrote her song with Alban Lico (who notably composed

, the Slimane and Vitaa album) which is reminiscent of Vanessa Paradis from the beginnings, the Gainsbour era.

With one big difference: it takes the opposite view of objectification.

"I don't make myself pretty to look pretty, darling.

It's for me, it's for whoever understands me, ”insists the singer.

Saam – “Where is he?

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Last year, Saam released a promising first self-titled EP.

He also opened for Hoshi and Les Frangines.

This 33-year-old man from Lille has trained as a dentist – a

that is reminiscent of that of Amir, who represented France at Eurovision 2016. With his song

, it calls for rediscovering a smile by reconnecting with childlike candor.

Pauline Chagne – “Pauline Night”

At 27, Pauline Chagne accompanies herself on the electric harp – an uncommon instrument in France.

His song transports us, with its eighties sounds that haunt our 2020s, several decades back.

So much so that we can imagine wiggling in a boom between What a Feeling and

, even if we did not know this period.

is not, however, a dated piece: navigating from bass to treble, the artist with a natural charisma is resolutely in tune with the times.

Like a little sister of Juliette Armanet or Clara Luciani.

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A jury chaired by Jenifer

The winning song will be designated in two stages on March 5 in

.

First, once the twelve songs have been performed on stage, the public will be asked to vote.

The five with the most votes from viewers will qualify for the “ultimate vote”.

The jury of personalities will select a song from the remaining seven.

During the final vote, the counters will be reset.

The public and the jury will each count for 50% of the final result.

The song that will have arrived at the top of the ranking will be the one that will represent France at Eurovision in May.

The jury will be chaired by Jenifer.

It will also be composed of Nicoletta, Yseult, Joyce Jonathan, Gjon's Tears, Sundy Jules, Agustin Galiana, Elodie Gossuin, Cyril Féraud and André Manoukian.

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