His text moved everyone. He participated in the success of the Mission Locale gala evening, on December 3, at L'Atelier à spectacle. Mirsa's song, It's over, is in line with the fight against violence against women which is part of the fights of Mina Daoudi, director of the Local Mission. Samir Belkhiri alias Mirsa when he is on stage tells the story of this singular text, written as a cry from the heart.
Under what circumstances did you write this song?
Mina Daoudi asked me to ensure the artistic coordination of the gala. To expand on the offer, I offered to write a piece and perform it. I locked myself in my studio in Saint-Lubin-des-Joncherets to write something melancholic on a very hard subject. This is how this text came to me, which puts the mother at the center of the subject.
Have you already addressed the theme of domestic violence in your works?
I have already written on this theme. The last piece I wrote on the subject talks about femicide but from the point of view of the author, of the man who killed his wife.
It is not finished, not finalized because from this point of view, I am on the edge. This requires very fine writing, weighing each word so as not to offend and above all not to give the feeling that we are excusing but rather to try to convince men that violence is unacceptable.
You work with Soprano who himself has just released an album and says he doesn't want to talk about women's points of view, in that you agree.
I frequently work with Soprano's manager and he asked me to open for his concerts. His album Emprise evokes this major theme in our society. And, it's true that women don't need to put themselves in their place to fight their fight.
Women are strong, often stronger than men. In the text for the Local Mission, I therefore chose to speak from the point of view of the child, of the son who speaks to his mother. In our country, the mother has a central place in the family, she is essential. Hence this text which combines suffering, tenderness, admiration and encouragement.
We come to another facet of domestic violence, the suffering of children, have you noticed it?
I worked a lot with young people at the Local Mission, in adolescent leisure centers, and at the college where I was an education assistant.
We sometimes come across very angry young people who turn their violence against themselves or against others because they experience violent situations at home.
Often, they have neither the words nor the listening skills that would allow them to get through it. It's up to adults to hear them, listen to them, reach out to them so that they don't feel abandoned.
Their dismay, I express it in the first words of my text: “And I don’t understand why the world is going so badly, why mom is crying…”.
Do you have other projects of this type in the works?
I would like to revisit my text Femicide to bring it to fruition.
But I also want to write on the theme of school bullying. It's a phenomenon that tends to multiply, which affects a lot of young people and which affects me a lot. I want to participate in the fight against this scourge with texts by giving keys to all these young people who must build a livable and more fraternal world.
