Barbara Pravi is in mourning: the 28-year-old singer announced this Saturday April 2 on her Instagram account the death of her grandmother. She had Alzheimer’s disease. It is quite naturally that the young woman paid tribute to him by revealing a snapshot of them reunited at the time when the disease still gave her grandmother a little respite: “I think that’s the last time I was able to speak to you a little ‘normally’. I had just released my very first record, you had cried a lot, you had taken my head and pressed my forehead against yours saying ‘thank you, thank you, thank you’. […] It was five years ago. Since then, I’ve done a lot of things Grandma, a lot of things that I’ve never been able to tell you because you don’t understand anymore.“
In his last album We don’t lock up the birdsfor which she is currently on tour, Barbara Pravi dedicated a song to her grandmother, The Ritournelle. In the four minutes of the song, the one who defended France at Eurovision in 2021 addresses the theme of Alzheimer’s disease. It is through these notes and these words that she pays homage to her grandmother when she walks the stage during a concert.