After picturing the French President being lynched during a performance, Jacques Higelin's daughter finds herself in the center of a dispute.
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| Izïa Higelin |
Izia the rocker, who is just 32 years old but has a career spanning more than 15 years, is entire, ambitious, feminist, and sensitive. She has bypassed all the phases in order to make an impact on stage and even in the movies.
Two music awards, a Cesar for Best Female Hope for Mauvaise Fille (2012), and five albums under her belt already represent quite a journey for one of our most prolific musicians. However, she recently went on stage in an uncontrollable rage and invoked Emmanuel Macron's public lynching, sparking an investigation.
However, what did she think? We had never seen Izia take a position so vehemently against a government or a leader, despite the fact that she is well known for her spontaneity, her outspokenness, and her dedication to the left. Most of the time, she expresses her rage in song or saves her comments for interviews.
She criticized the confinements, the curfew, the cultural sections of businesses that were deemed "non-essential," and the brutal arrest of rap producer Michel Zecler by the police during the Covid-19 outbreak. Last year, she told L'Éclaireur Fnac, "We were plagued with injustices, and I was enraged. I thought I was going to blow up.The explosion did occur, but it happened post-hoc, as if to settle an old score.
Iza the tornado is a genuine bundle of energy when she's on stage. According to her emotions and current events, the singer completely surrenders to the audience, engaging in improvisations, rants, hilarity, tears, and several digressions.
Even if it means over-revving or skidding, the supercharged vocalist views her shows as a series of encounters and performances. She had the image of Emmanuel Macron as a human piñata that had been crushed with a spiked bat in this situation.
She adopts a style from her late father, Jacques Higelin, a poet and acrobat who she frequently assisted behind the scenes and who passed away in 2018.
He was known for giving everything he had onstage. He backed the left, first François Mitterrand, then Ségolène Royal, and François Hollande, and spoke up for the underprivileged, the homeless, and the undocumented. Little Izia, the daughter of backup vocalist and dancer Aziza Zakine, grew up in a household that was heavily influenced by both music and politics.
She composed her first songs on the spot when she was just 7 years old, picked up the guitar at age 11, penned poems, formed her own band through chance meetings, and dropped out of school at age 15 after performing at the Printemps de Bourges.
She performed in the Paris Palais des Sports as Iggy Pop's opening act a year later, in 2007. Her career won't experience any more downtime between pop and rock thanks to his successful efforts into the film industry.
She appeared opposite Omar Sy in Samba (2014), as Camille Claudel in Jacques Doillon's Rodin (2017), and most recently with Jean Dujardin in Denis Imbert's Sur les chemins noirs (2023). She will soon be seen with Jean-Pierre Darroussin in Les Impatiences, where they investigate long-buried relatives and memories.
Meanwhile, the expenses of his extremely divisive diatribe might hurt his tour. Twelve shows were set until the end of August, followed by 20 shows in the fall, but the continuing inquiry may cause some communities to chill.
The concert set for Marcq-en-Baroeul (North) on Thursday, July 13, has already been postponed. According to the mayor of La Voix du Nord, LR Bernard Gérard, the singer's attendance would be "in contradiction with the values of gathering that prevail during our national holiday."
Source: Le Point