Lhe traffic jam occurs more readily on weekends, but this week, it’s a Tuesday that the coincidence of calendars and tours offers us three concerts on the same day. With three characters illustrating the diversity of French-speaking song, between monument, telluric independence and young energy. Adamo, Ruiz, Pravi: three tracks for the evening of November 26.
1 The infatigable Savior Adam
A year ago we thought that the career of the most sympathetic and dynamic Belgian songwriter alive was over. Pulmonary edema forced Salvatore Adamo to cancel several concerts, including that of January 2024 at the Pin Galant in Mérignac. This was without taking into account the resilience of the man, his passion for writing, composition and the stage where less than two hours of concert is not possible. “Before, I did triple backflips, now it’s doubles… but always discreetly,” he confided to us in May 2023 at the release of “In French please!” », adaptation of pop standards (Elton John, Neil Young, Pearl Jam…) under the leadership of Stephan Eicher.
These pieces but also his “classics” will be at the heart of the evening of this Tuesday, November 26. We may also hear new songs from an unreleased double album that he is preparing to release in 2025, or even titles in Spanish from an opus that he has also just completed. Tireless, we tell you.
2 The flamboyant Olivia Ruiz
After dancing and then literary adventures via two hugely successful novels, the “Chocolate Woman” returned to us this year with “The Retort” where she takes it up a notch again in the song that makes you dance, feel and think. Violence against women, the environment, the pain of forced exile, men, love: Olivia Ruiz knows how to sing them with solemnity, sensuality, sorority in climates of Hispanic pop with electro textures. Nice renewal after six years of musical absence.
On stage, the artist always sings and dances on a volcano, into which we dive with pleasure. The young girl a little lost in the castle of “Star Academy” (season 1) is far from the prime time formatting factory. But already, she was wearing a Têtes stiffes t-shirt. We bet she kept it.
3 The assertive Barbara Pravi
She could be a little sister to Olivia Ruiz, minus the southern swinger. Barbara Pravi, with a powerful voice, is a contemporary Piaf. After an agreed-upon first pop album, the singer spotted in the musical “Un été 44” who then represented France at Eurovision in 2021 with “Voilà! » where she finished second, freed herself from her production team and charted her course.
“La pieva”, an album released in September, illustrates this new freedom, more personal, more touching. And this voice… also dazzling in the latest Claude Lelouch (“Finally”) currently in cinemas.
Adamo in Mérignac (Pin galant, 8:30 p.m.), 28 euros. Olivia Ruiz in Mérignac (Krakatoa, 8:30 p.m., Chéri in the first part), €30.70. Barbara Pravi in Cenon (Rocher de Palmer, 8:30 p.m., Melissende in the first part), 39 euros.
