“It was madness! If Angèle, SCH or even Bigflo and Oli are regulars on the big festival stages, this was not the case for star seeds, Carbonne and Jethro. The Montpellierain and the child of the country had the chance to open, Friday and Saturday, the festival pink At Meett From toulouse. “It was too heavy, I didn’t want to leave”, swung at 20 minutes Jethro, barely off stage. “We had a great time, it was crazy,” continued Carbonne.
The two artists have entered the big leagues. And this, thanks to an intense competition. It all started on June 14 with a call for applications for the Tremplin du Rose. After complex selections among 500 applicants and a successful final, on July 18, the two rappers win the day. The key: to perform in front of 30,000 people who came for the Toulouse festival which counted 90,000 entries over three days.
“As a family with my brothers”
And it was Carbonne who launched the festivities on Friday. The dark-haired man with a mustache from Montpellier was nervous “but as usual before going on stage”, no more no less. On the set, it’s “in family with my brothers”, just to stand together, said the young 26-year-old artist all the same.
The public in the front row, very Toulouse, played the game and was surrounded on the sounds of an EP baptized Under the downpour. After a successful passage of almost forty-five minutes, Carbonne took refuge in the silence of his dressing room: “When I left, I was relieved. It was done. The sound system was amazing as was the audience. They were all super nice.” “It’s also cool to see the other artists and to see their world, how they are preparing… To be with them what”, added the one who is already quite successful and had already taken the stage at the Zenith of Montpellier.
“A dream come true”
For his part, shirt open and with the impression of “having taken all the drugs in the world”, Jethro was still struggling to believe in this “dream that is being fulfilled”: “it is the objective of a lifetime. The vision of the scene like that is something we’ve had in mind for years. “The former gospel singer who turned to rap while growing up asked for more:” I scratched minutes on stage so I didn’t want to leave. »
Jethro had given himself every chance to accomplish “his dream” and found himself facing 30,000 people on Saturday. And the public responded again: “From the first sounds, we feel the public. He was with us and it was really fun. “In the audience of the rapper, precisely, his friends, his family and… his college music teacher. Significant support for the 25-year-old Toulousain: “I was really afraid of forgetting something, that it wouldn’t be fluid. Finally everything went well. I quickly got caught up in the game”, admits the rapper who “prepares new sounds to come back even hotter on the stage”. And Jethro to let go: “Now that I’ve tasted this, I don’t want to stop. »