At 28, Barbara Pravi will represent France at the Eurovision Song Contest which will be held from May 18, 2021 in Rotterdam. With her style and her vocalizations which are reminiscent of a certain Edith Piaf, the young woman intends to pay tribute to French song with her title Here, performed on piano-voice. In the columns of Release, from Friday April 16, 2021, the pretty brunette confided in her career and in particular the trials that forged it. Thus, the artist returned to the disease which forced her to have an abortion three times.
She was only 17 when she first became pregnant while taking a birth control pill. An event she recounts in her title Flesh. After having been the target of derogatory comments from the medical profession “which confuses warning and pillorying”, Barbara Pravi terminates a second pregnancy, then a third. The beautiful brunette explained to our colleagues have hyperfertility, a disease that is not yet recognized by medicine and which explains her numerous pregnancies. To these tragedies were added the violence inflicted on him by his companion at the time. So when he hits her too hard and her head hits the edge of the bed, she finally dares to leave him.
“I learned not to get fucked anymore”
“I forced myself to leave and not to think backwards. To no longer wonder what I had done to make this happen to me”, she declared. From now on, the young woman intends to impose herself and not to let go. “I learned not to get fucked anymore. Psychological violence, perpetual degradation, it is used to dominate “, she said. As for his participation in Eurovision, which is presented as a “Half-singer” entrusted to 20 minutes to have “The funk, serious”. And for good reason.
Approached several times by the production of The Voice, the young woman has always declined the invitations: “I was so aware of the issues, of what it represents, of the media coverage…”. The former waitress of a Parisian bar recalled: “I spent my first salary to produce a music video for a song I made with my coffee buddies”. Spotted by the Capitol record company in 2015, she released her first sign Not grow up in 2017 before doing the first parts of the tour of Florent Pagny. The rest we know …
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