Rosemary Phillips brings Joséphine Baker’s “Dans mon jardin” up to date

70 years ago, the queen of the music hall, Joséphine Baker, celebrated in song the rainbow village she had created at the Château de Milandes in Dordogne. It was there that this free and committed woman, a great resistance fighter during the Second World War, adopted twelve children, of all colors and all faiths. This was his rainbow tribe. A humanist ideal and a commitment against racism that the former magazine leader will live day by day.

Today, it is the jazz singer from Barbados, Rosemary Phillips who pays tribute to him by revisiting “Dans mon village”, the title performed by Joséphine Baker in 1953.It’s really about her, about her dream of creating an ideal village with all children from all corners of the world, from all cultures who could live together.” explains Rosemary Phillips.

For this project, Rosemary Phillips called on Eric Mouquet, a legend of the electro scene who settled in Dordogne. He is the creator of Deep Forest, one of the rare French groups to win a Grammy Award. Despite a busy schedule with the release of his latest album and tours, the composer accepted Rosemary’s idea to dust off Joséphine Baker’s standard “Dans mon village”. “There are rhythms that are a little funky, a little Barry White to have that American side. These are colors that came quite naturally. And then we come to rap.” explains the author. The rap serves the idea of ​​naming each of Joséphine Baker’s twelve children from all over the world like Akio, Jean-Claude, Brian, Marianne or even Moïse. They will be raised in the Chateau transformed into a veritable amusement park until their adoptive mother, riddled with debt, is evicted in 1969.