This year's French choice (and controversy around it) is certainly no stranger to media attention at Eurovision. This Saturday's edition of daily “Aujourd'Hui en France” tells the story of Virginie Pouchain, who represented France in Athens, two years ago. “From Eurovision to hair dressing” is the title of the article, which says that the young singer is now working part time as a hair dresser in her native Ardèche which was already her job before Eurovision.
"She still is a local star", the journalist writes. "Here, people don't understand why I didn't record anything right after Eurovision", Virginie declares. "The bad result didn't affect me that much. Being anonymous again within a short time had no bad influence on me. I received some proposals, none of them appealed to me".Asked on Tellier's song in English, Virginie answers : "Eurovision was made to present each country's musical culture. But, as more than one half of the songs are performed in English, maybe it offers more chance to win".On another page of this Saturday's edition, "Aujourd'hui En France" gives the result of its survey on the language issue. 70% of the people who took part find it shocking to have a French song performed in English.
Currently,Virginie is workingtogether with guitarist Pascal Jania, preparing a special showcomprising songs of Francis Cabrel. More details on Virginie's websitehere.
