At 9:07 p.m., Friday February 10, the music of the opening credits of the 38e edition of the Victoires de la Musique, composed by Jean-Claude Petit and played since the first music industry awards ceremony in November 1985. Then, it was the first performance played live on the main stage of La Seine musicale, in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine), the program broadcast on the public television channels France 2 and TV5 Monde and radio France Inter, I play music, interpreted by the singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Calogero, president of this edition, and his group.
And already a great fatigue in the face of this mania of musical programs to accumulate shots that do not last more than a few seconds, mixed with roller coaster movements of the cameras, towards the public, the stage. Fault which will return on many occasions during the musical sequences of the evening.
More than three hours later, at 12:20 a.m., the last of the eight Victories submitted to a vote, that of the album, is announced for Multitude, of Stromae, his third disc released on March 4, 2022. He had previously been crowned best male artist, in competition with the duo Biflo & Oli and the trio Grand Corps Malade, Ben Mazué and Gaël Faye. At 37, Stromae, singer-songwriter and producer born in Etterbeek, near Brussels, adds two new trophies to the five Victories he has received since 2011.
800 voters
Other of his Belgian comrades who appeared in the final list of nominations – drawn up by a college of 800 voters this year, performers, musicians, authors and composers, members of phonographic companies (independents and majors), artists’ agents, producers… – will have been rewarded. The singer Angèle thus received the Victory of the female artist, where Apple and Izïa were named, in addition to that of the most streamed album of an artist for her album Ninety-Fivemarketed on December 3, 2021. This last category, which is not subject to a vote, also earned Boss by rapper Ninho the Victory for the most streamed album by an artist. Angèle had already received three Victories since 2019.
The third representative of this Belgian presence, the singer Pierre de Maere, whom our colleague Stéphane Davet hailed in a recent article as being the “a new figure in the Belgian pool of urban pop, programming with panache the staging and sound of his narcissism”. Winner of the male revelation, he had performed before receiving this award the song One day I will marry an angel, who made him known, during one of the few successful sequences of the show. In a setting of flowery pink arches, facing a small assembly on benches, and smoke on the ground drawing like clouds, a sympathetic nod to the wedding ceremonies that we see in many comedies or American series .
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