« La Pieva ». Barbara Pravi knew this before writing the songs, and that is what she would name her second album. The Pievaor “the singer” in Serbian. A name given to his ancestor in 1750, a Gypsy woman who wandered in the mountains between Bosnia and Serbia, and whose passage was not missed by the villagers. The Pieva will subsequently become Piévic (“child of a singer”), the real surname of Barbara Pravi.
The Pieva is no longer a legend today. It has become an album. That of a woman who, like any good singer, experienced a lack of inspiration after the success of her hit “Voilà” – listened to more than 135 million times and thanks to which she will rank second at Eurovision in 2021 – and her first album We don’t lock up birds. “I thought I would never be able to write again. I didn’t even know what music I wanted to make,” the 31-year-old told 20 Minutes.
READ ALSO Thomas de Pourquery: “I feel like I’m coming out” So the singer takes up this word “Pieva”, explained by her grandfather at the beginning of his career 10 years ago, and uses it as a starting point for her second album. Unable to explain her origins to the world’s TVs during Eurovision, she takes the road to Serbia in 2023 accompanied by her 91-year-old grandfather to reach the village where part of her family still lives. And The Pieva is born. The album, but above all […] Read more
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