Ten years to the day after the passing of the law on same-sex marriage, let’s look back at the fight of artists for freedom, before and after the Taubira law of 2013.
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The gentle, the good, the fair Gaël Faye does not often have this vehemence in his tone, nor this cruel way of sinking the heads of the opponents he is addressing under water. But he didn’t write those words, “You will end up alone and defeated”. This title, which he recorded in 2020, is a poem by Christiane Taubira, and it is timely to hear it today. Because on April 23, 2013, the law was passed opening marriage between people of the same sex in France – a law promulgated on May 17, 2013.
And ten years to the day, after the historic vote of the National Assembly, this song sounds like a victory song on that too: same-sex marriage has been enshrined in law, and no political force can imagine questioning it.
In the second episode of These songs that make the news airing this weekend, you hear excerpts from:
- Gael Faye, Alone and defeated, 2020
- O’Dett, The Tsoin-tsoin, 1936
- Charpini and Brancato, I’m a singer, I’m a singer, 1944
- Charles Aznavour, As they say, 1972
- Lara Fabian, The difference, 1987
- Michel Sardou, The Privilege, 1990
- Zazie, Adam & Yves, 2002
- Lynda Lemay, The two men, 2002
- Angela, your queen, 2018
- Eddy de Pretto, kids, 2017
- Gael Faye, Alone and defeated, 2020
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And you can also find on this link the podcast Behind our voices, with the writing and composition secrets of eight major artists of the French scene, Laurent Voulzy, Julien Clerc, Bénabar, Dominique A, Carla Bruni, Emily Loizeau, Juliette and Gaëtan Roussel.
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