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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....
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.
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).
Jul 26, 2024 · Gojira, a popular French 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 that was popular during the...
Jul 26, 2024 · Gojira performed the French revolution song 'Ah! Ça Ira!' during the Paris Olympics opening ceremony - check it out here.
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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.
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Jul 26, 2024 · The members of the French metal band stood on platforms outside of the windows of a castle in the rain, as they performed a metal version of the the traditional song “Ah, Ça Ira!,” which dates back to the French Revolution.
