The meeting between Pone and Marc-Antoine Le Bret in a BrutX documentary

Héloise Goy with Gauthier Delomez 10:20 a.m., March 24, 2022

His name may not mean anything to you, but you have surely danced to the music he produced.

Pone (whose real name is Guilhem Gallart) is the beatmaker and co-founder of the group the Fonky Family, which was a hit in the late 1990s. He notably participated in the creation of the tube

.

This rap producer has also produced titles for the rappers Diam's or Rohff.

He is considered the big brother of the pioneers of French rap.

It is for this reason that the documentary

, available from this Thursday on the BrutX platform, traces his career from Toulouse to Marseille.

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In this film, what is very special and moving is that since 2015, Pone has been suffering from Charcot's disease.

He is paralyzed but that does not prevent him from continuing to make music.

He is also the one who signed the soundtrack of this documentary.

He can do this thanks to software that allows him to transcribe with a robotic voice the words he writes with his eyes.

The call to impersonator Marc-Antoine Le Bret to find his voice

To find his old voice, he and his family decided to call on impersonator Marc-Antoine le Bret, who is also a member of the Europe 1 team. The film shows the first meeting between the impersonator and Pone and his wife Wahiba.

"Enchanted hello!", Launches Marc-Antoine Le Bret, and Pone to answer him with the robotic voice: "Hi Marc-Antoine! Welcome, it's really nice!"

The essential

imitator tries himself in front of the rap producer: "I want to find my voice. For the moment, it's a robot's voice. Marc-Antoine, he is an imitator, he's going to give me a shot. hand."

And the imitator to ask: "Is it a Toulouse or Marseille accent?"

“It depends on where I am,” Pone replies wryly, as his wife reminds him that he could adopt both accents.

"I got fully involved because it's a great cause"

The software that can transform the robotic voice is soon to be developed.

It is also Marc-Antoine Le Bret who was responsible for doing the voiceover for this documentary by slipping into the skin of Pone.

He tells how this very special collaboration happened.

"For me, it was one of my best projects. I was under a lot of pressure, but I feel like I've been used for something and he's very happy," he told AFP. microphone from Europe 1.

The comedian also explains that he found this project "really crazy".

"It took me a lot of time. And I got fully involved because it's a great cause. I worked on my voice as much as possible, we exchanged emails (with Pone), but he didn't can't really judge on his voice. So it was rather his wife who was judging and she was really very happy", details the columnist, who reports the reaction of the rap producer: "The first time he heard his voice, he said 'It's true that I had a stupid voice!'"

The documentary

 by Yohan Malka and Vincent Buchy can be watched this Thursday on the BrutX platform.