Sylvie Pullès retraces her career in a book

More than 5,000 musette balls without counting the last decade and more than 500 songs in her repertoire, Sylvie Pullès has crossed two centuries, a millennium, the smallest village of Auvergne as seeing her name written in capital letters, twice, on the pediment of the Olympia in Paris. It was worth a book: “The Destiny of a Queen in Clogs”. This is her title which corresponds to the one who owes nothing to the tale of Cinderella and remembers where she comes from.

Success at the cost of hard work driven by passion. “ I started playing the accordion at 7 and a half years old, I had my first ball in Saint-Martin-sous-Vigouroux and I didn't want to give up the accordion “says the one who now resides in Saint-Côme-d’Olt. From Cantal to Aveyron, Sylvie Pullès does not choose. If Pierrefort's La Bourée is among his “hits”, the song “Si tu vas à Millau” remains his fondest memory, broadcast in some 170 countries. Then, there are the meetings of course. The big names of the strap piano like Richard Galliano, André Verchuren who gave her the title of “queen of Auvergne folklore”, personalities such as Prince Albert II, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Jean Todt, Pascal Sevran, Jean-Marie Périé, Pierre Douglas, Pierre Bonte (who wrote the preface and gave him a gold disc), Didier Barbelivien (who gave him the medal of Knight in the Order of Arts and Letters) and many others thanks to numerous illustrations.

An upcoming film

Rich photos which retrace life, a destiny which owes nothing to chance. “It requires discipline like an athlete. I was bored without an accordion at boarding school so I was allowed to have the instrument on Wednesday afternoon”confides Sylvie who says to herself “nostalgic but not outdated.” The golden age of the accordion and folk dances gave way to line dancing in resonance with a world that had become individualistic. “I had good years.” In his thoughts, like a tune and a taste of fifties soul sung by Alain Souchon: “In the Radiola, André Verchuren…” The ambassador of Cantal and Aveyron was followed for a year and a half to bring to life a film which will be released at Christmas and will run in cinemas and village halls. “I am proud to have brought together and highlighted my territory, two departments.”

Two departments, two centuries, a millennium, and it's not over for the woman who is about to leave to celebrate the 140th anniversary of the founding of Pigüé in Argentina by a handful of Aveyron residents.