The two French artists composed a song in tribute to the victims of October 7 and the days and months which followed this massacre. A song for peace whose genesis John Mamann tells us about.
“Dancing in the Desert is just two guys from two different generations who wanted to sing together.” Singer-songwriter who has notably worked for Johnny Hallyday and Justin Bieber, John Mamann is not promoting the title which he shared on social networks on Monday October 7, a year after the massacres committed by Hamas in Israel, start of a new war with numerous victims. “It’s not a hit designed for radio. A guitar, a voice and that’s it. “, he explains.
“The fruit of an emotion”
It was through a mutual friend that he received the text from Didier Barbelivien on February 15. “I read the text to my nine-year-old child who said to me “I find it sad and beautiful”, the definition of melancholy. I started playing a melody with my guitar, humming the words with him,” he recalls with emotion. “In Didier’s words, I read everything I wanted to express about this wave of violence of October 7 and after. We have been living with horror for a year.” At first, he confides, he only thought of singing it as a duet but of finding a performer. “As it wasn’t easy, we decided to do it together. In the studio, I took my guitar, I sang and Didier Barbelivien put his voice on it. It wasn’t calculation, just the result of emotion. »
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As soon as the song was published on social networks and You Tube, people’s reaction touched him: “They give me the most beautiful response. Beyond the positive comments, I only have thumbs up. They are affected. It’s a song that seeks to soothe, to do good. » “It’s very hard today to say something without being put away in a drawer. The world I leave to my boy worries me,” he still judges.
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“Dancing in the Desert”
