what you might want to find out about this thirty ninth ceremony | EUROtoday

This 12 months, we will see faces as assorted as these of Zaho de Sagazan (within the lead with 5 nominations), Aya Nakamura, Jain, Étienne Daho, Gazo, Vianney or Véronique Sanson. The public had the chance to vote for “the best original song” till February 8 at 8 p.m. The artists involved by the nomination might be invited to carry out on stage. However, rapper SDM, nominated on this class, expressed his refusal to sing on stage and was subsequently disqualified. This incident recalled the wrath that the organizing committee had beforehand suffered.

Boycott then rebirth

In 2018, Nicola Sirkis of the group Indochine described the Victoires de la Musique as a “masquerade”. A scarcity of parity in addition to an under-representation of the rap and R&B genres had additionally been criticized, with city music virtually by no means being named in the primary classes. After the coronation of Pierre de Maere for the male revelation in February 2023, towards the rapper Tiakola, SDM known as for a boycott of the present on the networks, denouncing “a lack of respect” in direction of “the artists of the rap planet”.