They are seventeen, aged eight to ten and all elected to the Dijon children’s municipal council. They wrote a song in homage to Joséphine Baker, two months after her entry into the Pantheon. A hymn to tolerance and against racism of which they have just shot the clip which will be screened next June.
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That afternoon, in Chenôve near Dijon, elected officials gathered to shoot a clip. These elected officials are those of the children’s municipal council of the Burgundian capital. They are between eight and ten years old and have chosen to pay a musical tribute to Joséphine Baker, who entered the Panthéon on November 30th. They wrote a song called We are all the sameand were shooting the music video this week.
“Making a song and remembering it isn’t very hard, but afterwards, the playback is a bit difficult, because it goes fast and you, sometimes, you can’t keep going.“. Audrey, she knows this song by heart, but in front of the camera, it’s something else entirely. who made her celebrity in France between the two wars, nor to her role in the Resistance, but to the tireless anti-racist activist and adoptive mother of twelve children, her famous “rainbow tribe” like her Called him.
“She is a lady who has traveled the world and adopted children from all over the world.“, says Zoe. “She fought against racism and for me she is a very good person“, adds Louison. “She understood that religions were not different“, completes Yacine. All take turns in front of the green screen to make the clip. Green screen where will be then embedded in the editing, images that are linked to the life of Joséphine Baker, and some film extracts. Once finished, their clip will be screened during the plenary session of the municipal children’s council of Dijon, on June 22.
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