Paris (AFP)

Sacred evening for Angèle? The number 1 sales in France in 2019, carried by the feminist anthem "Balance ton quoi", is named in three categories at the 35th Victoires de la Musique, Friday evening.

For male voices, Philippe Katerine and Alain Souchon also total three nominations each. But the 24-year-old Belgian is already the big winner, although it happens Friday from 9:05 pm - ceremony at La Seine Musicale in Boulogne-Billancourt, live on France 2 and France Inter.

His compatriots do not return, like the rapper Glints who exclaims to AFP: "Angèle, queen of France!". She is therefore in the ranks for the titles of "female artist", "concert" and "audiovisual creation" for the clip of "Balance ton quoi" in which Pierre Niney plays.

Coming from a family of artists - sister of rapper Roméo Elvis, daughter of singer Marka, of actress Laurence Bibot - she ruled the pawn in 2019 to Johnny Hallyday at the top of record sales in France, according to the classification of Snep , National Union of Phonographic Publishing. By adding physical sales - CDs, vinyls - downloads and listening on platforms, his album "Brol" reached 532,111 sales last year.

- "Tourbillon" -

Everything went so fast. On October 23, 2019, Angèle celebrated the two years of the release of her first song, "Murphy's Law". Since then, how do you describe what happened to him? "Tsunami, waterfall ... I vote whirlwind, it's not only negative, it implies that it can be very nifty," she replied to AFP in November.

For the clip, she faces the rap duo PNL, whose video "Au DD", shot on the Eiffel Tower, had an international echo. For the live, she has a good competitor with Jeanne Added, whose solo tour "Both sides", stunning, offers an original device with the audience mirrored on either side of the stage.

Angèle is ahead of a Clara Luciani nomination, who is living a great story after the late take-off of her first album, cited for "female artist" and "original song" (with the title "Naked").

In men, it will therefore be necessary to decide between Philippe Katerine, howling French song, and Alain Souchon, eternal dreamy dandy, candidates for "male artist", "album" (respectively for "Confessions" and "Ames fifties") and "song original "(" Stone with you ", for the first," Almost "composed with actor Edouard Baer for the second). They are closely followed by Lomepal named in the categories "male artist" and "album" ("Jeanine").

- Swirls -

In the category "stage revelation" emerges Suzane, the most programmed artist for summer 2019 in festivals in France (32 dates). For "revelation album", Pomme ("Les failles") is a favorite against Malik Djoudi ("Temperaments").

The previous edition had seen the triumph of Jeanne Added and Bigflo & Oli, with two trophies each ("female artist" and "rock album" for the first and "male artists" and "urban music album" for the two brothers) .

Great news this year, the categories awarded went from 13 to 8. The labels of genres - rock, electro, world music, urban and rap music - disappeared, the category "album of songs" becoming "album" quite simply - for better readability according to the organizers.

But this overhaul is causing a stir. "It's a shame, it's a world that is closing instead of opening up, it's a bit sad. Opening up was the way to be less Franco-French", regrets to the AFP Martin Meissonnier, DJ, historical producer of world music. Manu Dibango even denounced a lack of "colors" in Le Monde.

"It is true that it lacks a bit of diversity, we will have to work on it," admits to AFP Romain Vivien, president of the Victoires de la Musique.

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