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Inspired by her first album “La Symphonie des éclairs”, singer Zaho de Sagazan, cited in five categories, took first place in the nominations for the Victoires de la Musique 2024 on Monday.
France Télévisions – cultural editorial department
Published on September 1, 2024 4:06 p.m
Reading time: 3 min. Zaho de Sagazan at the Longchamps racecourse in Paris, June 24, 2023. (DENIS TRASFI / MAXPPP)
She is the revelation of the Victoires de la Musique even before they take place on February 9th. With five nominations, Zaho de Sagazan is at the forefront of the race and arouses curiosity about his career, his world and his personality. The 24-year-old singer, winner of the Francis Lemarque Prize for Revelation and the Joséphine Prize in 2023, began music at the age of 13. Bathed in French diversity, she fell under the spell of Jacques Brel and Barbara. Growing up, she developed a passion for 1980s electronic music, from Krautrock, a German progressive, experimental and psychedelic rock, to synthwave. Sounds that fill Berlin’s clubs with an electro atmosphere.
During his childhood in Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique), Zaho de Sagazan practiced dance intensively, up to seven hours a week. A frenetic rhythm that we find in his stage performances. She began her musical career, like many young artists, by posting song cover videos on Instagram starting in 2015. Zaho de Sagazan also contained some original compositions.
First album, first success
From 2019, Zaho de Sagazan takes part in numerous festivals such as Printemps de Bourges, Rock en Seine, VIP, Nuits de Fourvière or Franco Folies de La Rochelle. She continues her performances on stage before the release of her first album entitled on March 31, 2023 The Symphony of Lightning. The album was certified gold in December 2023 after reaching the threshold of 50,000 copies sold.
On his only album with pop, rock and electronic influences, Zaho de Sagazan talks about his complexes and his doubts. The hypersensitive singer talks about her feelings in her lyrics. “Who goes there, sadness? You won’t have me tonight. I have finally found wisdom and now full strength. What audacity to let me believe that I’m just a poor puppet. Manipulated by your disgusting hands of desperation.she sings, breaking down each word by its title sadness.
She also speaks about violent, sometimes toxic loves, in an androgynous voice The sleepers. “These people are very good speakers. The seducer, the teaser, the seducer. Maybe you cried for hours. Monsieur will attribute mistakes to you. The one who never does it anyway.. Zaho de Sagazan likes to take refuge in the darkness that permeates the cover of his album. “When I close my eyes, I can forget what is around me and enter my world. When I sit at the piano in the dark with my eyes closed, I can write more beautiful songs.” she said last October on the set of C to you.
The success scares the 24-year-old young woman a little : “It can be great, but it can also be a poison and you have to deal with it well”she agreed C to you. “I’m gradually discovering this profession.” A talent that even seduced Nicolas Ghesquière, artistic director of women’s fashion at Louis Vuitton. We heard Zaho de Sagazan’s music playing in front of a conquered Pharrell Williams on the guest bench during the Spring-Summer 2024 collection last October.
On the way to victory
Whatever happens on February 9, the day the 2024 Victoires de la Musique trophies are presented, the artist with the peroxidized hair is already one of the big winners. “It completely blew me away and so many nominations are a kind of congratulations, not just to me but to my entire team.”welcomed the artist to AFP.
The Saint-Nazaire native is nominated in the categories “female revelation”, “stage revelation”, “album”, “original song” and “audiovisual creation” (clip). “I really like making people dance, but I don’t know how to make happy songs“, she summarized after her performance on a small stage at Rock en Seine, a festival on the outskirts of Paris, in August 2022.
Zaho de Sagazan will return to Rock en Seine in 2024, but this time on a big stage. The Zénith de Paris in March 2024 is now already sold out. “It’s great to see this album come so far on stage while we were at Point Ephémère a year and a half ago [petite salle parisienne]”, she is happy. Zaho de Sagazan “is extraordinary, his album is crazy“describes Vincent Frèrebeau, president of Victoires, whom he met before the nominations were announced. “Many will probably say : We’ll do it like Zaho. But she is exceptional and maybe not everyone is at her level.”, the manager continues. A success that will not end for Zaho de Sagazan, who begins with covers of classic French songs.
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