France: France Télévisions and Barbara Pravi hold a joint press conference

France: France Télévisions and Barbara Pravi hold a joint press conference
Monday, 19 April 2021

  • The French national broadcaster, France Televisions, along with the country's Eurovision 2021 hopeful, Barbara Pravi, held earlier today a joint press conference shedding more light on this year's participation.  

    Barbara Pravi will be representing France in this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam with her song "Voila" after winning the national final. While in current time she is one of the favorites to win the competition, place 2nd in the betting odds, Barbara held along with France Televisions a press conference letting people to get to know her a little more further. 

    During the press conference the French hopeful expressed her excitement on getting on the Eurovision stage in Rotterdam and enthuciasm for representing France. In addition the French delegation outlined that their primary objective is to win the whole contest and they would be delighted to host next year's competition. Further on they made public that a a documentary about Barbara’s journey, directed by Gianluca Materrese, will be released soon. 

     

    2021 Spokesperson unveiled

    The French broadcaster took the opportunity to unveil this year's Eurovision spokesperson revealing that the Junior Eurovision 2019 representative, Carla, will be the person presenting the French points. 

    One of the highlight moments was when last year's Junior Eurovision 2020 winner, Valentina, appeared on a video message sending her wishes for best luck to the French representative. 

    Among others , Barbara, revealed that her favorite location in Paris is the area she lives in, around Monmarte, while her favorite ESC song is Portugal's 2017 entry “Amar pelos dois”, a cover of which she'll be releasing soon. 

    Representing France with her emotional ballad "Voila" Barbara released recently an acoustiv version of her entry: 

    Representing France Barbara will compete directly in the Grand Final on May 22, 2021 while the country will be voting in the second semi final along with the UK and Spain. 

     

    A few words for Barbara Pravi 

    Barbara Piévic , said Barbara Pravi , is a singer-songwriter French , born on in Paris . Her stage name is Barbara Pravi, but her real last name is Pievic, in Serbian Пјевић (Pjević). She grew up in a family of artists, surrounded by books and music. Pravi is a Serbian word derived from prava meaning "Authentic", in homage to his paternal grandfather of Serbian origin.

    In January 2016, she performed On m'appelle Heidi  , the French version of the credits of the film Heidi , a 2015 adaptation, released in France in 2016, of two famous children's novels. 

    She released her first single Pas grandir in 2017 6  ; it will be included in her first EP, eponymous, released in 2017. That same year, she obtained her first role as an actress in a TV movie La Sainte famille , directed by Marion Sarraut and broadcast in December 2019 on France 2. 

    In February 2020, she released a new 5-track EP "Reviens pour Winter" of which she is the author, composer and co-director. For these songs, she collaborated with Stan Neff, Lili Poe, Vincha , November Ultra and Wladimir Pariente  .

    Along with writing and composing her own songs, she writes for many other artists such as Yannick Noah , Julie Zenatti , Chimène Badi , Jaden Smith , Angelina , etc. Barbara Pravi and Igit have together more than 135 million views on YouTube with their compositions for Kids.

    In 2019 and 2020, she co-wrote with Igit the songs Bim Bam Toi and J'imagine presented at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019 and 2020 respectively . Bim Bam Toi , peroforemd by Carla , finished fifth in ranking  and J'Imagine , played by Valentina , who eventually won the 2020 competition with 200 points.  in the lead with both the professional jury and the public vote .

     

    News Source: ESCXTRA

    Image: Eurovsion.tv