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For nine years, Flore Benguigui was the singer and songwriter of L'Impératrice, the band that was a big hit at major festivals, including Coachella - and released a new album, “Pulsar”. But in September, just as a new tour was due to begin, she left the band, announcing on Instagram: “It was physically and psychologically impossible for me to carry on.”
In this all-male band, Flore Benguigui denounces an extremely hard environment, made up of ordinary sexism and repeated humiliations. In the end, she lost her main working tool: her voice. For a year and a half, she says, she was unable to perform her concerts normally. A form of playback, a veritable dread of artists...
But in the music industry, the pressure to produce quickly is very strong. The financial constraints are heavy. Even to the point of crushing the artists who make it possible.
Contacted, the five members of L'Impératrice, former partners of Flore Benguigui, replied by e-mail : “The situations described by Flore do not correspond to the facts. (...) There was never any control over what she said. (...) Since the 1st concert in 2015, the “live” treatment of the vocals has been a collectively validated artistic decision, which has never called into question her qualities as a singer, composer and performer, nor her place in the band.”