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C. Hatty · 07/23/2026

Autour de Lucie: A pop ballad does not seek the deceased in heaven, but in the gaze

Paris - 23 July 2026: Sometimes an unassuming title is enough to open up an entire landscape. "Quelque part" - meaning: somewhere - is the title of the ballad that Franceinfo once again highlights in its summer series on female voices in the new French chanson and pop scene. Autour de Lucie does not sketch a heaven with fixed coordinates. Rather, the afterlife remains a vague, painfully close zone: a place where a loved one might be, yet remains unreachable.Singer Valérie Leulliot begins after a first day without the deceased. ...

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