La Grande Sophie enters the literary scene with the release of her book Every day, Suzanne. In this epistolary story, the singer looks back on her career by speaking to a person named Suzanne, a nod to her eponymous song. “You always have to follow your dreamsshe confides. Besides, this book talks a lot about that, about my determination since childhood to sing…” A story that also talks about getting older and the impact it has within the music industry. “We leave very little room for women approaching fifty in my profession, and that’s what made me want to rewrite my character Suzanne, to describe my time”explains La Grande Sophie.
“I’m enjoying the years that pass very well, but I’m having a hard time being pointed out to me, since everything is fine and we can live it peacefully.”
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A career which was marked by great collaborations, which La Grande Sophie recalls in her book. She has in fact composed notably for Françoise Hardy and Sylvie Vartan. But she also had the opportunity to meet celebrities she admired like Catherine Deneuve or Lee Hazlewood (author of These Boots Are Made for Walkin“), and whose admiration was shared. The singer remembers these meetings as having “much enriched”. “It’s a very unstable profession. So when we are comforted [dans ce qu’on fait]it’s nice”she admits.
The one who feels between 5 and 90 years old, divided between childish enthusiasm and great wisdom, says she discovered “great freshness” to have taken up writing and to have been confronted with the world of publishing. The singer therefore proves once again that approaching fifty can be synonymous with renewal…
Every day, Suzanne (Phebus), available now in bookstores.
The adaptation of Every day, Suzanne on stage on tour in 2025 in Aix-en-Provence on January 17, in Argentré-du-Plessis on January 24, L’ Ilse-Adam on January 25, and April 10 in Paris.
It was during the 2022 presidential campaign that the Le Birgit cabaret created by the duo Le Birgit Ensemble, composed of Julie Bertin and Jade Herbulot. A show that adapts to current events since the duo strives to caricature the politics of the moment, bringing back to life the art of the singers or the irony of the Guignols de l’info, formerly on Canal+. “When we started this story of Birgit Kabarett, we wanted to reclaim this tradition of satire which we lack, among other things, to de-dramatize our relationship with politics”explains Jade Herbulot at the microphone of Tout Public.
“On stage and in the public, we are a bit like the people at the bottom, those of civil society, who start to chew on the powerful.”
And indeed, Julie Bertin and Jade Herbulot have material, given the rich news of recent years. They are thus on their sixth opus. “We started five years ago, and very quickly, we wanted to make it an annual event”recalls Julie Bertin. A satirical relationship to current events which seems necessary for the two women in the face of the flurry of information that we are all faced with. “We often say that we are drowned in the news because there is now television, social networks… There was therefore the need to see things a little more clearly and to allow ourselves to mock and the caricature, to push the cursors a little, and to have fun with it”says Jade Herbulot.
“Le Birgit Kabarett” plays until January 19 at the TGP (Saint-Denis) and January 23 and 24 at the Théâtre Châtillon.
On the music side, Yann Bertrand presents the latest album from the Scottish rock group Franz Ferdinand released this Friday, The Human Fear.
A program with the participation of Yann Bertrand and Thierry Fiorile, journalists in the culture department of franceinfo.
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