Founder and leader of the Toulouse group Djé Balèti, Jérémy Couraut confides in his year.
Singer, composer and founding member of the Djé Balèti trio, Jérémy Couraut draws his inspiration from his origins and his many travels. Born of a Cuban father and a Sicilian and Tunisian mother, he has developed, over the years, a music with multiple mixtures. Somewhere between Afro rhythms and Occitan language, the Toulouse group offers its audience “frenzied balls” (“Balèti” in Occitan). The founder Jérémy Couraut confides on his year in the Journal Toulousain.
If you had to sum up your year in one word …
Jérémy Couraut. Contradiction !
The news that struck you the most, outside of Covid?
JC The back and forth of government directives that give the impression that the ministers and the president are playing “Jacques a dit” with us.
Which disappearance touched you the most?
JC Freedom. Given that the motto of our country is in three words and that the other two are already badly handled, the disappearance of the first is not reassuring.
What are you afraid of for the future?
JC The government’s habit of ignoring the reactions of the people.
What makes you optimistic?
JC The fact that things cannot always turn for the worse. There is certainly a balance between shadow and light.
The good habit you have taken this year?
JC As a good habit, I have somewhat dropped out of social networks which tend to make me jealous or conceited. And for the bad, I tend to like people less in general.
Man or Woman of the Year?
JC Catarina Segurana is a mythological character from Nissart (from Nice, Editor’s note). She has the super power to ward off the overly rational and cynical world with her huge buttocks to safeguard the enchantment. I only very recently understood the power of the symbol that it embodies.
What song have you listened to the most this year?
JC “Chaman” of the De la Crau group.
Movie of the year?
JC “Alice under the stars” by Chloé Mazio.
The book of the year?
JC “La religion carnavalesque” by Dominique Pauvert at Lo Chamin De Sent-jaume.
What joke that made you laugh this year?
JC One tiny bite and I’ll set you free. (Tintin: the blue lotus, by Hergé, Editor’s note)
What can we wish you for the future?
JC Let the world stop taking inspiration from the most awful anticipation films to create its present. It is vital to invent a future that pleases us and that places the well-being of all living things at the center of our concerns.
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