the group Alvan & Ahez will represent France in Turin with the song “Fulenn”, entirely in Breton

The Rennes group won the victory during the broadcast Eurovision France, you decide on France 2, with a title mixing traditional songs and electronic music.

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We can tell them Gourc’hemennoù, congratulations in Breton. The Alvan Group & Ahez will represent France in the Eurovision final scheduled for May 14 in Turin (Italy), after winning the Eurovision France show, it’s you who decide, broadcast on France 2 on Saturday March 5 with their title Fulenn.

In total, twelve songs were in competition, but the piece by the Breton group won the votes of the jury, but also of the viewers, with 222 points, ahead of Pauline Chagne and the group Soa. Melane of electro and Breton music, Fulenn, which means both “young lady” and “Sparks” in Breton, is the result of the meeting between the group Ahez, composed of Marine, Sterenn D. and Sterenn L. and Alvan, a musician specializing in electronic music.

The piece, recalling shumof the Ukrainian group Go_A, in the running for Eurovision in Rotterdam in May 2021, is intended as an anthem “feminist” and to “women’s freedom”, explains France 3 Brittany. This is the second time that France has been represented in the international competition by a song in Breton: in 1996, Dan Ar Braz and L’Héritage des Celtes sang Diwanit Bugale in Oslo (Norway).

Alvan & Ahez will have the heavy task of taking over from Barbara Pravi. The Frenchwoman, winner of a music victory for the revelation of the year, came second in the final of Eurovision Rotterdam in 2021, with her title Here is.


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