Named Monday night, rapper, 39, and singer, 29, competing in the artist category, album, song and audiovisual creation, which will be presented on 11 February.
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Orelsan and Clara Luciani dominate the nominations of the 37 are Grammy, revealed Monday, January 11 evening. Trophies will be awarded at a ceremony a month later, on 11 February. The rapper, 39, and singer, 29, competing in the artist category (male and female), album, song and audiovisual creation.
In this last category, Clara Luciani is vying with the clip Rest while qu’Orelsan is named for ever watch it in person, the documentary series event on his career, proof that this type of media – broadcast in its case on the Amazon Prime Video platform – is a check box in an artistic career. “We see that the perception of the music-image changes hitch, it will short formats of a minute and a half on social networks to longer creations, as have Orelsan, Angela or Bigflo and Oli” analyzes the president of Victories, Stéphane Espinosa.
The two artists are closely followed by Juliette Armanet and Fire! Chatterton, cited respectively in three categories. But to summarize the debates, Orelsan appears as indispensable to the period between late 2021 and early 2022, surfing on its success with audiences and critics.
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Civilization, released in November (the same day as the album of the British Adele 30), is the biggest selling album in France in 2021 (more than 335,000 copies), according to the ranking of the National Union of phonographic publishing (SNEP).
The album fits perfectly at the time. The title The gasoline odor is becoming the soundtrack of the excesses that bristle debates about the presidential campaign. And his art of social chronicle still illuminates Manifesto bravura seven minutes on an event that goes wrong, the beautiful film writing.
The album is not a statement acid, but it is crossed, as Orelsan recently told Agence France-Presse, a big question: “What are you going to pass your children? Civilization is the society around me and what I can bring. “Orelsan will he better than in 2018, when he won three victories during the same ceremony? The artist in any case lie the titles of his previous albums – Lost in advance (2009) and The Feast is over (2017) -, reaching a wide audience, beyond the circle of rap
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Heart, released in June 2021, Clara Luciani, for its part, signed a great album to celebrate the decontainment which then drew for summer 2021 (11 th of sales in 2021 with over 155,000 copies). Not to mention some strong messages. “I never wanted to choose between serious and dancing, it was already the case with Grenada [tube previous album, became a feminist anthem],” she then developed. The author, composer and performer always emphasizes that “need to dance to exorcise.”
The ceremony of the 37 are Grammys will be held at The musical Seine, in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine) and will be broadcast live on France 2 and France Inter. This event is scheduled so that artists of contemporary music are concerned again by sanitary restrictions, including a ban concerts up until the end of January. “It’s especially great for complicated developing artists, who do not have the opportunity to present on stage, said Stephane Espinosa. It is important that the victories are held, especially for them, for they have a first TV. “With the revelations categories (male and female), the public will discover artists like black dog, Myd, Empress or Silly Boy Blue.
In 2021, the victories had spent in Queens categories Benjamin Biolay (lined with trophies of the male artist and album for Grand Prix) and Apple (Female Artist).