The second article on touspourchacune.com will be dedicated to art, and for that we’re going to start with two ‘Afro’ singers from different musical genres, one more Jazz-Lyrical, and the other, Afrobeat, French RnB. As we said in the first article, you may or may not have liked the opening of the Paris Olympics, but there were some moments of pure virtuosity, and their performances were among them.
Axelle Saint-Cirel, the 28-year-old mezzo-soprano, draped in a Dior haute couture gown enchanted us with a new version of Marseillaise. Here’s what she had to say to Francetv-info-Guadeloupe
« I think I’m more solid, as a singer already, and as a black woman who grew up in the east of France, who spent part of her childhood in Asia, with Guadeloupean parents and half my family still there. I’ve managed to embrace all that I am, thanks to all the people who have given to me in their lives. And there really are a lot of people in a lifetime! »
Aya Nakamura, of Malian origin, also dressed in a Dior haute couture gown (the outfits are on display in Paris, link), ldid it and did it well. The proof is in the form of the Pont des Arts, which has been taken over by tourists just a few days before the opening of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. According to theHumanité article :
. “His cover of Charles Aznavour accompanied by the Garde Républicaine has been at the top of the trends to be reproduced on TikTok for the past few days. “It’s all over the networks! that’s why we’re here,” explain Rin and Widjane. ( Another youngster added : )”I saw her performance on television! It was really incredible! I think it’s a very powerful moment symbolically. It shows that diversity is France! »
We’d like to finish with Paulette Nardal, the woman nicknamed “the forgotten black woman”. But who is she ? TV5monde tells us more
« The first black student at the Sorbonne, the first black journalist in Paris, Paulette Nardal from Martinique broke down barriers of colour. Curious and intellectual, she became aware of the specificities of black culture when she arrived in metropolitan France and played an active role in the emergence of the negritude movement. »
Thanks again to the Antilles, Mali, the organisers of the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics and all those who made this article possible. Special thanks go to NesnesVanou, who was responsible for raising awareness of this tribute. You can find her on homepage of touspourchacune, on the team,
on her dedicated rajart.fr page or on her Instagram.