When you meet the four members of this formation that won the French playoffs, it's International Women's Rights Day.

That's good considering the theme of the song "Fullen".

"+Fullen+, that means sparkle and pretty girl in Breton, with for this last expression a slightly pejorative connotation, as if to say light girl, and we wanted to take this expression on the contrary and carry an emancipatory discourse for women" , exposes to AFP Marine Lavigne, one of the three young women of the group.

"We sing the story of a young girl who goes dancing at nightfall around a bonfire, she takes everyone with her, pushing back the slanderous looks", she continues.

The plot of the song is inspired by a Breton legend, which ends badly in the original version.

The boy of the group, Alexis Morvan, originally evolved on his side with the electro project Alvan.

How was the connection with Ahez, the group of girls, seen at festivals and fest-noz?

"We met at the bar"

"As good Rennais, we met at the bar (laughs) with Marine, we were there with our respective groups of friends, we got on well, we very quickly came to talk about our passions, music “, says the tattooed bearded man.

The Alvan & Ahez group in Paris, March 8, 2022 JOEL SAGET AFP

"I wanted to use the traditional song for music, I had tried with a recording of my great-grandmother singing in Breton, but it was not crazy-crazy", he develops.

"Marine told me she was singing in Breton, I told her that I had a + prod + in the drawer that could go, the three of them came to my house, liked the song, Marine wrote the text in two days, it was folded".

When Barbara Pravi won the playoffs last year, she had already been living in music for several years and had already signed on a label for her first album, then in preparation.

At Alvan & Ahez, only Alexis Morvan has both feet in the music.

The lives of the three young women will be happily shaken up by the Turin lens on May 14, a show broadcast in front of more than 200 million viewers.

Marine Lavigne is a student, "in a Spanish master's": Eurovision "upsets the plans (laughs), after the diploma, I intended to devote myself to music, there the thesis will take a hit (laughs), even if I'm going try to do both at the same time".

"Ties of Brotherhood"

Sterenn Le Guillou is "childhood and youth coordinator": "it will upset the rhythm of my CDI at 35 hours, but we are terribly lucky to be able to experience that".

The other singer, with the same first name, Sterenn Diridollou, works in communication, culture and events.

Their existence is no longer the same.

Renowned Breton artists have congratulated them, Dan Ar Braz, Alan Stivell or even Nolwenn Leroy.

Dan Ar Braz performed at Eurovision in 1996 in Breton, a language that the three singers learned in the Diwan school network (which practices immersion in Breton).

Alexis Morvan is just getting started.

But he has another advantage.

"The press officer for my Alvan project has the biggest Breton flag in the world - it's the size of a stadium (laughs) - and he told me he would bring it back to Turin".

It shouldn't be the only "Gwenn ha du" (Breton flag) in Piedmont.

There are always some in current music festivals, even without Breton artists on stage, and Celtic culture is very present on the old continent.

As Marine Lavigne says: "the Bretons are everywhere, we are a traveling people, who have left great footprints and bonds of brotherhood".

© 2022 AFP