Marina Viotti; Philippa Katerina; Lucky Love ; Victor Le Masne. JEFF PACHOUD / AFP ; BERNAT ARMANGUE / AFP ; FRANCK CASTEL / MPP/SIPA ; ISABELLE SOURIMENT / HANS LUCAS VIA AFP ; BERTRAND GUAY / AFP ; JOEL SAGET / AFP JOEL SAGET / AFP
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The soundtrack for the year 2024 owes a lot to these four artists who set the tone for the Olympic Games: Marina Viotti, Philippe Katerine, Victor Le Masne and Lucky Love.
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From 2024, we will a priori remember the immense success of the Olympic Games rather than the super-G of Savoyard skier Michel Barnier. Games which were not only a story of sport, but of celebration and music. Meetings with four artists who ignited this summer with flames and excesses, and more.
Marina Viotti: Gothic Callas
At the opening ceremony, she sang the revolutionary “Ah, ça ira”, with the group Gojira. Daughter of the Swiss conductor Marcello Viotti, this former khâgneuse is as comfortable in death metal as with Mozart, in guttural howling as with Gounod. This year, she released her first solo album, “In Darkness Through the Light,” which mixes John Dowland (British composer and lutenist 1563-1626) and Metallica. Portrait of a Gothic Callas.
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Philippe Katerine: the blue man
Since at the Olympics, Earthlings saw him singing “Nu” or singing “Nu” naked, he has been venerated even in China, where the “blue man” of Paris has even become… a dessert. This year, the poetic Vendéen also published “Zouzou”, an album both mischievous and painful, which bears the name of his dog, and where the artist addresses (among others) his « verge » fifty-year-old. Portrait.
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Victor Le Masne: one-man band
Musical director of the Games, we owe him, among other things, the anthem of the competition, “Parade”, but also the arrangements of the crazy performance by Aya Nakamura, where Souchon and Aznavour mingled, “Djadja” and “Pookie ». Ancien drummer of the electropop duo Housse de racket, he has also collaborated with Juliette Armanet, Philippe Katerine and Bernard Lavilliers. He will be in concert at the Grand Rex, in Paris, on June 13, 2025. Portrait.
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Lucky Love : torrent de love
Born without a left arm, Lille singer Lucky Love was one of the stars of the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games. Former altar boy, ex–art student, this fanatic of Rimbaud and the photographer Richard Mapplethorpe, never ceases to delight us with his star power and its “ 1970s gay porn movie mustache ». Interview.
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