ItShe will be doubtless be the last French-speaking pop artist to benefit from such an aura on stage, in the press, in the heart of a public gained in its cause and sharing with her a taste for a singular, sensual, literary orand mystic universe, where the restraint and the desire, life and death, love and melancholy, solitude and division are some of the paradoxes which make up her up …
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Whether we like or not her repertory or not, the longevity of her career undoubtedly deserves to be greetedacknowledged. Since 1984, until the release of her 11th studio album (“Désobéissance” on September 28th, 2018), she has remained one of the most sold artistartists in French-speaking Europe and the Eastern Europe, exceeding 30 million albums sold, the holder of thea record of the number of discs of diamonddiamond discs and having positioned her singles on the first place of various rankings many times. She undoubtedly remains thea unique interpreter of her status to present (in a landscape taking the easy way out) on stage spectacular shows on stage, with texts chiselledchiseled by double senses, by alliterationsalliteration and multiple artistic and literary references. We shall quote (and it is still the case inon her latest album) the presence of Charles Baudelaire's text (" Flowers of Evil " on the title " Au lecteur "), but it would be unfair to only quote him among all of her productions. We shall evoke exhaustively Primo Levi, Apollinaire, Nietzche, Malraux, Poe, Rimbaud, Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, the list is still long, but this gives an overview of the references of her texts …