“Who gives you the right to make the rules? What's wrong with you? ” intoned the fake Freddie Mercury singer, wearing black glasses and a white outfit, before removing his jacket and finishing the song shirtless.
“Being alive is not always joyful, but it is always incredible”
The thirty-year-old's first album, scheduled for fall, will be called “I Don't Care If It Burns.” Like a business card or a profession of faith. “That's a little bit like how I see life through the spectrum of what I've experienced, what you might call trials,” he analyzes. “I have a love for the living that is monstrous and too bad if it burns.”
To extend the sports metaphor, its course resembles a 110-meter hurdle, where the obstacles to be overcome are countless. There's this missing left arm that earned the northern French native taunts and bullying at school, the artificial paradises that plunged him into hell for a while, or his HIV status that he evokes in his songs. “I think being alive is not always joyful, but it is always incredible. We must remember this. That's what this album is for,” he philosophizes.
As a desire for revenge on the blows of fate, Lucky Love – Luc Bruyère for marital status – had a thousand lives between dance, modeling, theater (the play “The Elephant Man”, with French stars JoeyStarr and Béatrice Dalle), cinema (the French film “La Vie d'Adèle” by Abdellatif Kechiche), without forgetting the performances on the stages of Madame Arthur, a famous Parisian transvestite cabaret.
Dubbed by Lana Del Rey
So much so that we had to choose, not to have fun. “Now it's clear: music finally allows me to put together everything I know how to do, which is to act in my videos, as well as write my songs, dance in my videos, dance on stage.”
In the blink of an eye, the singer was scheduled a few days ago at Rock en Seine, a festival on the outskirts of Paris, the day after the visit of Lana Del Rey, who fell under the spell, as evidenced by the American's social networks. megastar “My great luck is that Lucky Love became Lucky Love because of a great artist named Lana Del Rey, who really liked my music and helped me a lot since she promoted my music,” he says.
With a nice snowball effect, since other international stars, pop or screen, such as the singer Sam Smith or the actress Jennifer Coolidge, followed in the footsteps of the musician to praise his merits on the networks. “So in the United States, I feel really celebrated. Paris became my home because this is where I started to dream. I think Los Angeles will become my home because that's where I want to continue to dream.”
LA will host the Olympics and Paralympics in 2028, but it's already a reality for the singer who recorded his upcoming album there. “There is nothing like the city of dreams: we went to make the album there also because I wanted to work with American teams. I've always had a big desire for pop, and I think Los Angeles allows for that.”