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More than 140 artists and music professionals call to defend the French scene


Singer Clara Luciani during the 35th Victoires de la Musique, February 15. Thibault Camus / AP

The world of music united in the face of the crisis. Many artists, radio stations and festivals call Sunday May 24 in the Sunday newspaper to the general mobilization to support the “French scene” music, hard hit by the health crisis.

“Broadcast more French and French works, whether techno, electro, songs, jazz, contemporary music and urban music … on the air and in the programming, it ensures a future for the artists of our country, ensuring them copyright income and allowing them to reach a large and curious audience ”, launch more than 140 signatories from this forum.

Clara Luciani, Jean-Michel Jarre or Laurent Voulzy

The artists included are Anggun, Blankass, Brigitte, Barbara Carlotti, Jean-Michel Jarre, Clara Luciani, MC Solaar and Laurent Voulzy. Jean-Noël Tronc, director general of the Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers (Sacem), is joined by the leaders of Radio France, Skyrock, Spotify, Deezer, Les Nuits de Fourvière or Eurockéennes.

For the entire French artistic scene, authors, composers, artists, DJs, technicians, and their publisher and producer partners, cthis situation implies a double economic penalty. With the disappearance of the important channel for the dissemination of their works, which is concerts, they suffer an instant loss of income. For artists, creators and publishers remunerated by copyright, this loss of income is long-term. “

“Because all of our creators and musicians are weakened, it is ultimately our cultural diversity itself that is threatened. Each destabilized talent, each young hope who can no longer launch out is a risk of concrete and lasting impoverishment for our musical landscape. It is urgent that we give all those who dream, the means to continue living. “

SACEM has already launched an emergency plan of 43 million euros (relief funds, exceptional advances, increase in aid to publishers) for its members. A website dedicated to this initiative, as well as a Facebook page.

The World with AFP

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