Cantal A first book for accordionist Sylvie Pullès

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Prefaced by Pierre Bonte, “The Destiny of a Queen in Clogs”, first book of Sylvie Pullès (ed. de L'Aulne) retraces 40 years of musical careerbetween meetings with his audience and voyages all over the world.

I have always wanted to take my passion for traditional music, my culture, my region, and the Occitan language as far as possible.

A tribute to his parents

Coming from a modest background as she likes to remind us, it is this family universe which allowed her to immerse herself in this culture so dear to her heart because she does not forget where she comes from. “Today I would like to pass the torch to the younger generation so that she in turn bears witness and our roots as long as possible.”

Anecdotes from the pen

Throughout the pages, she evokes son premier bal in Cantal at the age of 12 with his father on July 7, 1984 in Saint-Martin-sous-Vigouroux at the Hôtel de la Poste. The year she turned 20 in 1992, she was admitted to la SACEM with among others one of his compositions “ La Bourrée de Pierrefort” which will very quickly become a tube and which earned him the medal of the town of Pierrefort.

Cathodic fame

Then the first arrive tv shows and national radio stations including Pascal Sevranwho over time will become a friend and confidant. Also France Inter with Jo Dona and Jean-François Heckle, with whom she had the honor of participating in one of the last broadcasts “Inter Dance» before heading to Toulouse, where she studied at the conservatory and at the faculty of musicologythrough studies of Spanish and occitan .

Among the people who meant a lot to her, she cannot ignore her meeting with André Verchuren who nicknamed her “ the Queen d'Auvergne”, “the queen of Auvergne folklore” and who will become his godfather musical.

Meeting two presidents

In December 2014, she participated in the inauguration of the Millau viaduct for which she composed the song “Si tu vas à Millau” alongside the president Jacques Chiracand the minister and mayor of Millau at the time Jacques Godfrain. Some time later, she met another President of the Republic: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing with whom she loved to speak “accordion” in her residence at the Château d'Estaing.

She carefully keeps his dedication where he wrote “To my friend Sylvie Pullès who is a much better accordionist than me”. Impossible not to mention histwo Olympiafrom 2010 and 2015 where Pierre Bonte and Fabien Lecoeuvre gave him, for his30 years of careera gold record which rewarded his5 000 bales2 million km traveled, 2 million dancers.

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