It's a song and a manifesto. This Wednesday, on the occasion of International Women's Day, Barbara Pravi revealed the song Lève-toi, which she performs with Tunisian singer Emel Mathlouthi.

"Get up, do not look at the world that collapses without doing anything, thinking only of your mouth, without moving, without arming yourself with conscience. Do not allow violence, rejection of the other and ignorance to take hold. Let our voices together rise and our hands united finally raise us, "calls the French artist at the beginning of the song. She declines her appeal to various interlocutors in the following stanzas: "Arise, son", "Rise sister"... And to plead: "Honor your mothers, your daughters. Honor your sisters, their lives. They who have paid for all the too high price of silence, of forgetfulness. Don't let history erase us. »



The beautiful text of this song is partly taken from the manifesto for women's rights, also entitled Lève-toi, published in 5,000 copies by Julliard editions and put on sale this Thursday. Barbara Pravi signed all the words and illustrations in the book, while Aref Al-Haidari delivered the Arabic translation. All rights will be donated to La Collective, a shelter and help for women in Arles whose singer is the godmother.

"His lips hum for those who no longer have a voice"

"In a chorus, like a melody of the soul, she will tell you that we do not lock up birds. Her lips hum for those who no longer have a voice. Those who, somewhere, are terrorized, writes Moroccan author Huriya Asmahan about Barbara Pravi in the preface. Her dream is not a crazy hope that she has put in the mouths of the stars. One day, these stars will say that his fight was not in vain. »

On Instagram, the French author, composer and performer described this project as "the greatest of madness". Since 2018, every 8-March, she has taken the habit of proposing a creation (the feminine rewriting of Kid by Eddy de Pretto, two volumes of "Prayers"...) to celebrate International Women's Day. "Let's get up, together, every March 8, yes, but every day, every second," Pravi said in her story.

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