“I know rejection. It doesn't scare me. I'm an artist. I sing.”

Lucky Love is the stage name of Luc Bruyère, born in Lille in 1993. Actor, dancer, former performer in the famous Parisian cabaret Madame Arthur, now a singer. Tonight, August 28, he performed his play again. masculinitya melancholic pop ballad about gender and body norms, which my abilityPlace de la Concorde, during the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games led by Thomas Jolly.

You suffer from agenesis, the congenital absence of your left arm. Is that the reason for your presence at a ceremony for disabled athletes?

No. When I was asked to sing at this ceremony, my first reaction was to say no. I did not want to be a flag bearer. Simply because I do not feel disabled. I was born without my arm. Since I have never known anything else, I have no feeling of lack. Only the feeling of living in another body.

Finally, after having a lot of discussions with Thomas Jolly, I realised that they wanted to make this ceremony a ceremony on a par with the opening of the Olympic Games on 26 July. No less important and, above all, inclusive. They did not wait for the Paralympics to include them. That made me want to be there. All the more, to sing my own song, Masculinity.

Why this title?

This piece, released in spring 2023, has had an incredible response around the world. The idea of ​​masculinity is not the same in North America, Asia, Europe… But it has unified something, especially on social media. There, I modified the text to include everyone, especially female athletes. The most important thing for me was that no one felt excluded during the ceremony.

For me, that's the power of pop music: to bring people together. I love the idea that music is imbued with ideas and can be both a personal and a political object. safe place.

A performance of the opening ceremony on July 26 particularly shocked the audience. They saw it as a parody of the Lord's Supper and it sparked a wave of hatred on the Internet. How do you assess these reactions?

I wasn't surprised, although I must admit it still made me sad. Actually, I'm angry because I'm not surprised. What really makes me angry is the fact that we're not even surprised.

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