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After a childhood and adolescence punctuated by Music, Virginie Benazeth moved to Paris where she frequented the rock scene before settling in Toulouse. There, she created the Blob which organized more than two hundred and thirty concerts in ten years.
“When I was little, in my room in Aveyron, I dreamed that I would meet the artists I listened to. Music was moments of disconnection, remembers Virginie Benazeth. And finally, with the Blob, my dreams came true.” Le Blob, this structure created in 2014 by Aveyronnaise, which organized concerts for ten years, in Toulouse.
Born in 1974 in Rodez, the child attended school in Saint-Éloi before joining that of Balsac in 1982, when the family moved to Capdenaguet. She enrolled at Kervallon college in Marcillac then at Sainte-Procule high school in Rodez. “Just a year,” she admits. “I was more with the clowns than with the workers.”
This is also the time when the teenager begins to go out. “My father took me to clubs at Plangeirou. It was the only place in Rodez that carried the rock scene.” A “rich life”, she admits. “But I felt really disconnected. I was very rock, in opposition to the fairly conservative Ruthenian environment.” And everything changed when, in August 1991, his father died following a ruptured aneurysm, the year he turned seventeen. “My mother [Vincenta] did not have a license. With my brother and my sister, we found ourselves a little isolated in our house in Capdenaguet.”
On the studies side, even if “school didn’t interest me”, she says, she nevertheless joined the Jeanne-d’Arc high school where she took her G3 commerce baccalaureate. A path in which she continues in BTS at Monteil high school. “I missed it by one point. They said to me, ‘Are you going to take it again?’ I said no!”
“In Paris, I lived my teenage dreams live”
It is then time for the young woman to leave Aveyron and stand out on her own two feet. “Rodez was sad for me. And everything reminded me of my father. I had to flee”, explains Virginie Benazeth who “goes to Paris thanks to the Aveyron residents of the capital”.
“I found a job as a commercial secretary, Porte Maillot, then in an accounting firm which managed the affairs of Aveyron residents in Paris.” And that’s the revelation. Or rather confirmation for the young woman who discovered the capital’s rock scene and attended numerous concerts. She whose heart has always been beating to the rhythm of this music, and also punk and other alternative music. “One night punk, the next day mods,” she smiles.
Ten years of Blob and future projects
The year 2006 marked Virginie Benazeth’s return to the South, to Toulouse, after twelve years spent in Paris. So here she is, living in the pink city, with her daughter Charlotte, born a few months earlier. “At the beginning, I no longer had my bearings, I was in panic,” she admits. What I missed was that we couldn’t dance.” But after a while, the young thirty-year-old was quick to meet people. “I devoted myself to my little one while creating a network in Toulouse. “And wants to mix again. “But there was no DJ set [un DJ qui mixe après les concerts]. So we created one. At the beginning at Ravelin, a bar in Saint-Cyprien, in 2014.” And it was that same year, with the help of her friend Mathias, that she created the Blob, which would punctuate Toulouse nights for ten years.
Virginia Benazeth
Ten intense years where, alone but with the support of friends and partners, she organized more than two hundred and thirty concerts. “It was a huge job to bring groups who are used to venues of 300 to 400 people like La Cigale, in Paris, to small venues in Toulouse, with entry costing five or six euros.”
A page was thus turned, on November 16, for the Aveyronnaise, currently a personal and professional development coach for the local mission, who today devotes herself to her activity as a photographer and to her courses at the Actor Studio from Toulouse.
“Today I want to put my energy elsewhere”
“At fifty years old, I keep what is important to me, what I want to develop. I have no regrets in having stopped the Blob. It allowed me to shake up the right hands and to have contacts. Today ‘Today, I want to put my energy elsewhere.’ But the young fifty-something hasn’t completely left the music world. “I continue to do DJ sets and host a radio show on Canal Sud*.” Always with this desire to “transmit happiness”. Through her photos that she should exhibit in 2025. Or on stage. “I dream of being on a movie set or playing in the theater,” she admits. “I’m going to start castings this year.”
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