No one has forgotten her performance, divine and suspended, at Eurovision 2021. If the extraordinary destiny of “Voilà” in France and abroad has shone the spotlight on Barbara Pravi, the 31-year-old artist has many other assets to assert. While she will soon be on the bill for the film “Finalement” by Claude Lelouch, she unveils this Friday, September 6 her new album “La Pieva”, named after an ancestor who traveled the Balkans to sing her songs by the fireside and nourished the history of her family. It is the title “Bravo”, rock and powerful, which gave the trigger to the project, more frontal in its sounds and in its words. I think this album is quite multifaceted. I wanted songs that moved, I wanted to have fun! Since I had the experience of performing live, I was able to think about my music knowing that I was going to play it on stage. It changes everything because I know my energy on stage, I know what I like to do, how to talk to people, what I like to give them. So, I really made all the songs by imagining what they would sound like in concert. ” confides Barbara Pravi in an interview to be discovered soon on Purechartswhich will begin a vast tour throughout France on September 28, including three concerts at La Cigale and a date at the Olympia.
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“It’s a job that can easily make your head spin”
A bohemian life that sometimes leaves its mark. Placing herself under the spotlight, the singer of “Exister” shares her doubts as an artist in the fourth song of her album, entitled “Qui j’étais” and which has been elevated to the rank of new single. On a melody dotted with elegant strings that rises to a crescendo, Barbara Pravi wonders ” what is the use of shining », « to be a shooting star “, evoking ” extreme sensations » et « weeks spent away from [sa] maison “Too much, sometimes.” I regularly feel like I’m losing my footing, I often wonder what the point is. The meaning I give to my job is that of the connection with people. Everything around it, the light, the extreme light even, the success, I spend my time wondering if it’s not a bit artificial. And at the same time, it’s part of the game! It’s what we want to be heard but what we also want to escape ” explains the singer to our microphone, aware of ” no longer be a stranger ». « It’s a job that can easily make your head spin. ” she adds as she hums along to her song ” I don’t know who I am anymore / Remind me who I was before / I don’t know who I am anymore / How do I know where I’m going now ».
Watch the video clip “Who I was” by Barbara Pravi:
A relationship with glory and the quest for identity that Barbara Pravi stages in a clip worthy of a biopic in which she presents herself as a singing star in her last youth. Contemplating the (fictional) vestiges of her past, such as her meeting with Charles Aznavour or Dalida, the singer sees herself again, young and dashing, when she wandered around her luxury mansion among the works of art, to read her fan letters and invite friends to party. A word registers in her mind when evoking these memories that parade before her eyes: nostalgia…
