Last night in New York… Zaho de Sagazan, on an American tour, sang at the “Music Hall of Williamsburg”, in Brooklyn, which was “sold out” (full)
When she sang “The Lightning Symphony,” her most famous song, the crowd began singing along. So she shut up, held out the microphone to the audience. Then, at the end of the concert, she got off the stage to dance in the audience, for several minutes, as much to have fun as to say goodbye…
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The Zaho de Sagazan concert was sold out.
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“Zaho de Sagazan, sold out”, could we read last night on the facade of the very trendy “Music Hall of Williamsburg”, in the heart of hipster Brooklyn, where the concert was sold out. There, we would have thought we were in a village hall somewhere in France, or at an electro ball on July 14th. Zaho spoke English as best he could, with a delicious French accent, to tell anecdotes about his life, already long despite his 24 years, his work and his dramas. “I am a very intense, very dramatic person,” she says to announce her song “The Last of the Journeys.”
Soon in San Francisco then Los Angeles
She switches laughingly from French to English but the audience, very French-speaking, understands, laughs with her and helps her find her words. She who often says she has not yet known love, nevertheless confides that she fell in love with all her musicians, “for one day”, in turn, going from one to the other… She shares her joys and sorrows of a child when “she cried a lot”, until the day she started to cry on a piano and that’s when she realized that “her tears were not necessarily a weakness, they could become a quality.”
Zaho de Sagazan on stage at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, New York.
© Eva Sakellarides
A delicious, refreshing evening for her audience, but also for her and her musicians, clearly happy to be there. “I love the stage so much,” she tells us after the concert, sipping a glass of champagne, in the backstage above the stage, where friends can pass by to give her a kiss, a rare luxury in New York concert halls usually barricaded by security…
This American tour, which earned him a long laudatory article in the “New York Times”, continues on December 19 in San Francisco at the “The Independent” concert hall, then on December 20 at the “Fonda Theater” in Los Angeles. .
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