Jann Halexander – Staying in habit
Included in the album consolatio (exit May 2021)
9 years ago, on the chain France 3, Jann Halexander affirmed that we do not do career with good feelings’. The artist, who celebrated 17 years of career on October 5 at the Théâtre Michel in Paris, joined the cultural movement ‘theaters open’ in January 2021 and given concerts with public in the context of claims against the closing policy. Cultural places.
Prolific directory singer, he proposes to stay in habit ‘the first excerpt from his new album’ Consolatio ‘whose exit is scheduled for May (distributed by Lalouline Publishing). The clip, directed by Monique Hottier, stages two couples, a homosexual and the other heterosexual, which tear, worn by the daily routine. Available, among others, on YouTube where it displays thousands of views and many comments, this short film clip recalls the singer’s commitments that signed in 2019 a forum against the penalty of homosexuality in Gabon, relayed by several media.
Along with the artist in the clip, the Gabonese lyric singer Christna Leonie and the Congolese writer-Vietnamese Berthrand Nguyen Matoko, who we owe the novel ‘Le Flamant Noir’ (Editions L’Harmattan, 2004), first Francophone African novel to evoke the LGBT question, and also dancer-choreographer of the famous Congolese singer Abéti Masikini (1954-1994).
The text ‘Itonda’ in the introduction of the clip is recited by the writer Leonard Makosso-Akendengué (‘our brother and friend the chameleon’, 2016, Editions the involved), by the way father of the singer. It is in Myène language, one of the many gabon bantuages. ‘Itonda’ means ‘love’.
Text & Music: Jann Halexander
Arrangements: Sebastyen Defiolle
