Madame Monsieur / Clara Yse

MADAME MONSIEUR
She's luminous, empathetic, distinguished, filled with heightened emotions and inner chaos. He is a studio rat, an explorer, an adventurer, a stickler for approval and a sickly perfectionist. They both share the same drive for curiosity, high standards, aesthetic profusion and creativity.

It's almost fifteen years now since EmiIie Satt and Jean-Karl Lucas patented the French pop duo. Called Madame Monsieur, they released two EPs, Malibu (2013) and Tandem (2016), and supported Ibrahim Maalouf on his tour in 2016. Their debut album, VU D'ICI, was released in April 2018. At the same time, they took part in the Destination Eurovision show on France 2 and won with the song Mercy, inspired by the birth of a little girl on the humanitarian boat of the NGO SOS Méditerranée. With the same song, the duo represented France at Eurovision 2018 (Lisbon), coming 13th. This was followed by compositions for other artists such as Slimane, Bilal Hassani, Hatik, Kery James, Nawel Ben Kraïem and Stacey Kent... In their third album, Madame Monsieur reveals an inextricable connection between the intimate and the outside world, the place of the individual in the midst of an extraordinary event.

CLARA YSÉ
Horses of fire, syncopation with the fairies. It is said that the poem was originally a song. Like all mythologies, this one has become untraceable.
And yet, listening to Clara Ysé, with her words as a cavalcade, her verses as prophecy, her voice as it arcs from shadow to light, it's as if the poem were incarnate.

The singer-poet and her prodigious musicians lead us through a forest of unclassifiable symbols, borrowing and synthesising a variety of rhythms and myths. French chanson, epic polyphony, fusion, the singer balances between worlds, on the edge of words, and unites them in a powerful, spellbinding and generous show.

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