That's what the French call their music awards: "Les victoires de la musique", and the award show was on television last night.
I've got a few interesting bits to share, but thought I'd start with the song that won the Victoire for the "Best Original Song" of the year -- this is a category that's voted on by the public. Four songs were nominated, and there was a phone in vote all evening.
Now, I've waited a long time for Christophe Willem's album to turn up on iTunes -- for those who don't know of him, he was the winner of the 4th edition of "Nouvelle Star", the French version of "Pop Idol". I love his voice, I love his music (at least a couple of the songs on the album were written by one of my favourite singers/song-writers, Zazie, including "Double Je", which took the prize for "Best Original Song".
Thanks to YouTube, I can show you his performance last night:
(Did I mention I also love his gold shoes? I love them...)
Excellent to see Michael Jackson is still getting work overseas. Sad to see he lost the other glove, though.
Posted by: Tadams | March 14, 2008 at 02:40 AM