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Jul 26, 2024 · July 26, 2024. Gojira, a leading French heavy metal band, became the first hard rock act to perform in an Olympic Games opening ceremony when it did a metal version of “ Ah! Ça Ira ,” a song...
Aug 3, 2024 · “Ah! Ça Ira” is the name of the song performed by Gojira, and came to popularity during the French Revolution. The key phrase comes from American polymath Benjamin Franklin, who was known to say the phrase as, "It'll all work out" during the American Revolutionary War.
Everything started in 1996 in a garage in the southwest France, in a small town of Bayonne, where brothers Duplantier, Joe (vocals, guitars) and Mario (drums) founded a band with two friends, Christian Andreu (lead guitar) and Alexandre Cornillon (bass).
Performing at La Conciergerie – a palace and former prison on the River Seine – Gojira played French Revolution-era song Ah! Ça Ira alongside experimental opera singer Marina Viotti as part of a segment celebrating a landmark moment in the country’s history.
Jul 26, 2024 · French heavy metal band Gojira was the talk of Friday’s Olympics Opening Ceremonies for the band’s headbanging reenactment of the French Revolution featuring opera singer Marina Viotti....
Jul 26, 2024 · You could say Gojira started a new French revolution at the 2024 Paris Summer Games. As the first-ever heavy metal band to perform at an Olympic Opening Ceremony, the head-bangin' quartet...
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Jun 2, 2021 · Modest but self-possessed, Joe takes the lead and is first to answer questions directed at them both, while Mario shades in the colour of forgotten details. The pair formed Godzilla in France in 1996, when Joe was 19 and Mario was just 14.
