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By Guillaume Loison

Lââm holds her breath under her platinum pink hairdo with assorted braided headband and heavy make up. She is sitting next to a tall elegant lady who has a malicious look in her sparkling eyes and who calmly sips her cocktail. This Afro-American is Bettye LaVette attired completely in black.

A star of Soul music for the past forty years. She is now in Paris on stage for the first time at the Jazz Club Lionel Hampton. "When I heard she was coming here I rushed to the opening night of her show. A journalist had told me two years ago about Bettye" the future Cinderella of the Luc Plamondon musical tells us. "I fell under her spell as soon as I heard her singing". The energy displayed on stage by this worldly black diva definitely conquered the young singer. Bettye LaVette is a model to her, "a reference, just like Tina Turner or Aretha Franklin. Bettye LaVette has a voice, has style and has a way of moving her incredible silhouette on stage. She is a queen but few people are aware of it".

Bettye relates with humour: "it's a complete mystery to me since my beginnings. The people who know me like me enormously but I'm still poor" as she breaks into laughter. Nevertheless Bettye believes that International consecration will come one day "as only time determines talent. I've never felt so good. I mustn't loose my energy now after collecting so many fans everywhere all these years". Energy, the common denominator between these two women. "I don't yet know Lââm's music but I love the enthusiasm she exudes".

"We immediately understood each other, Bettye has now inspired me to do an entire Soul album." Lââm