ALVAN and AHEZ. The Breton group Alvan & Ahez is the French flag bearer for the Eurovision Song Contest, the final of which will be held on Saturday May 14 in Turin, Italy.
[Mis à jour le 10 mai 2022 à 10h59] At Eurovision, does Brittany win you over? This is what the group Alvan & Ahez, which represents France in the Eurovision Song Contest, will try to prove, the final of which will take place in Torino, in Italy, on Saturday May 14th. It’s with the song Fulennwhich means “spark” and “young girl”, that they will carry the French hopes, a year after the second place won by Barabara Pravi and the title There.
“Fullen, it means spark and pretty girl in Breton, with for this last expression a slightly pejorative connotation, as if to say light girl, and we wanted to take this expression on the opposite foot and carry an emancipatory discourse for women. We sing the story of a young girl who goes dancing at nightfall around a bonfire, she takes everyone with her, pushing back the slanderous looks”, explains to AFP Marine Lavigne, one of the three young women in the group.
Alvan, Marine, Stereen D. and Stereen form the group Alvan & Ahez, a name borrowed from a figure from Breton mythology. “We met in a bar last summer, explained Alvan to Tele-Leisure. We discussed our respective musical universes. Alvan had already written a piece, and he was considering the possibility of adding Breton voices. We listened, and I hooked directly on what he was proposing. In the process, I called Sterenn Diridollou and Sterenn Le Guillou. We sing together at Breton festivals. We wrote lyrics, and that’s how it was born Fulenn.”