They are cooks, artists, politicians or simply committed citizens, and above all, Marseillais who will bring life and talk about the city of Marseille, in this new year. 20 minutes has chosen to highlight four personalities who, through their functions or their projects, will occupy the front of the media scene in 2022.
Sabrina Roubache, Macron’s eyes and ears
She is not really unknown to the general public. On paper, the producer behind the Marseille series on Netflix is a young regional advisor alongside Renaud Muselier, her first elected mandate. But fine connoisseurs of Marseille political life know that Sabrina Roubache, a close friend of the presidential couple, has become the eyes and ears of Emmanuel Macron when the President of the Republic wants to take the pulse of this city of Marseille that he says affectionate particular. Sabrina Roubache has also largely contributed to the preparation of the President’s visits in recent months, in particular to announce her plan for the second city in France. A strategic position in the perspective of the presidential election, knowing that the president has already announced a return to Marseille for the month of February. Sabrina Roubache recently took the presidency of the Marseille committee for the re-election of Emmanuel Macron.
Laetitia Visse, the butcher’s wife
An opening between two confinements, a book on the balls and a place on “The list” alongside the greatest. Like her city, Laëtitia Visse marked the culinary scene this year. With Alexandre Mazzia, three-starred chef in 2021, she offered the “Prize for the new gastronomic destination” to Marseille by placing in the top 200 of the 1000 best restaurants in the world. His speeches on harassment and violence in the kitchen world were noticed, like his book Balls, 10 ways to prepare them, published by Epure. The young chef has made a specialty of carnivorous cuisine, with a special mention for offal, without hesitating to pair them with seafood. And you have not finished hearing about her sausages, cabbages. stuffed and sausages in 2022.
Jul fills the Velodrome
It is undoubtedly a highlight of his career. Initially scheduled for 2020, postponed for the first time in 2021 due to the health crisis, should finally perform at the Vélodrome on June 4, 2022. The Marseille rapper, who will experience his first solo concert there in this mythical place of Marseille, will enter the very closed club of artists capable of filling the stadium of the Phocaean city. A date Jul is looking forward to.
“Yeah, the truth I long for, but with a force, he confided to 20 minutes in an interview published last summer. I remember the first time I went to the Vélodrome, it was for Sopra who invited me. When I got on the stage… I want to see that again. The waves of flashes, it’s nice. My show lasts two and a few hours. I don’t know if I’m going to last the two hours, I’m going to give my all. It’s like I’m playing in the Champions League final, I’m going to tear up the pitch. “A few weeks after the UFO, whose last album Independence hits the peaks of sales, Soprano, another emblematic artist of Marseille rap, will be back at the Vélodrome stadium, for two concerts on June 18 and 19.
Éric Akopian, Own from Marseille
With his association Clean My Calanques, Eric Akopian and his association have been surveying and cleaning the most beautiful places in Marseille for four years. During the bad weather of September, when tons of waste, left in the streets by the strike of the agents, had ended up at sea, Eric Akopian had mobilized in less than 24 hours more than 500 Marseillais, invited to contain the disaster. The young thirty-something should still be talked about in 2022, and not only as a “clean man”, as his talents are numerous.
Last December, he took part in the joyous election of Miss Cagole by offering the candidates a green quiz. To raise the mood, he heated the room with an a capella cover of Lose Yourself from Eminem and Organized Cleaner, clip shot at the Vélodrome and diversion of the hit of Jul and the Marseille rappers Organized band. He is currently preparing the organization of a music festival in Marseille, with the objective of “zero waste”. It would then be the first to manage to organize such an event without causing a mountain of rubbish.