Clinging to a crane with her grand piano, the singer Santa will offer an extraordinary performance this Friday in Brussels. Famous for her ardor on stage alongside her group Hyphen Hyphen, she will perform songs from her first EP solo.
Why perform on stage when you can do it suspended from a crane 45 meters high? Santa, the singer of the French group Hyphen Hyphen, will take off, accompanied by her grand piano, on the evening of July 14 on the Place de la Bourse in Brussels. For about twenty minutes, she will deliver a vertiginous concert and will perform the titles of her first EP in solo and in French, 999.
I’m really excited, because we’ve been preparing for this exceptional show for months, I can’t wait to give it, says the artist. Propose this concert in height, with all the passion that drives me, it can only be beautiful.” This unique show has been in the making for nine months, since the idea suddenly germinated in Santa’s mind. “I hate the phone, I’m very shy. During a slightly too long phone call that annoyed me, I drew this performance, remembers the singer. It could have remained in the drawing state, if I had not seen a possible madness in it.”
The sketch now becomes reality and already comes to life during rehearsals in the air. “It’s an elevation. I’m approaching a form of absolute that I particularly like. And it’s fun too, it’s a completely new sensation.” Because the service is part of the cascade. Santa and his grand piano will be craned 45 meters above the ground, before landing to meet the public. “Just because you’re in the air doesn’t mean you shouldn’t come down to earth sometimes, especially as an artist”says Santa.
The musician promises many surprises and artifices throughout the show, and above all a grand finale with a rain of popcorn on the Brussels square. A nice nod to salty popcornthe flagship title of his EP 999 released last September. She delivers variety songs in French, more intimate than those embodied in English with her electronic pop rock band Hyphen Hyphen.
Her aerial concert will be an opportunity for her to perform her titles, as well as an exclusive, for the first time in Belgium this Friday July 14 at 9.30 p.m., as part of the inauguration of Plaisirs d’été, festivities organized in Brussels until August 6. “My heart beats faster in Belgium, it’s a country I love”, delivers the artist. And that his French fans are reassured, the show will be entirely filmed.
This solitary parenthesis does not take Santa away from Hyphen Hyphen, with whom she is currently touring Europe to promote their third album. That’s life, released last January. The day before their show in the air, the group will perform at the Vieilles Charrues festival. “It’s ping-pong, I’m having fun, rejoices the musician. These are two aspects of me that come together quite nicely: on the one hand intimacy, on the other electric energy.”
Friday 14 July at 9.30 p.m., Place de la Bourse in Brussels, as part of the inauguration of Plaisirs d’été.
