Marie Gicquel 11:55 a.m., September 22, 2022
On stage, accompanied by her piano, Valérie Marie, tells her success story: living from her passion, after a buzz on social networks.
After a piano cover of "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen in an airport, she is playing at the Tristan Bernard theater with her show "A life at your fingertips", in partnership with Europe 1.
The road was long before the recognition.
It is this long journey that Valérie Marie tells us in this alone on stage at the Tristan Bernard theater, in partnership with Europe 1, after being spotted on social networks thanks to her piano cover of
Hallelujah
by Leonard Cohen in an airport .
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White shirt and black pants, the costume seems to announce a piano concert.
It's almost like that: hands on the keyboard, the pianist looks back on the significant events of her life.
His encounter with the instrument, his childhood in a very modest family, his first piano, the most precious gift under the tree and the choice of reason: to abandon the instrument for business studies.
© Marie Gicquel / Europe 1
But passion returns to tickle his fingers in his forties.
She decides to relaunch herself in the piano, to be a film music composer, to meet record companies… in vain.
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Despacito buzz
Everything will change at Toulouse airport.
Valérie Marie's plane is late, so she decides to play
Hallelujah
by Leonard Cohen on the self-service piano at the airport.
A stranger invites himself and sings.
The filmed scene is broadcast on social networks and will be viewed 13 million times.
And the life of Valérie Marie will be turned upside down.
Live from your passion, a dream already realized.
Next step for the pianist-actress: buy a grand piano and meet Jean-Jacques Goldman, her idol.
A life at your fingertips
is at the Tristan Bernard theater until December 17, 2022.