{"id":1052,"date":"2021-07-21T14:10:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T12:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pegase-21.com\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2021-09-13T11:08:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T09:08:13","slug":"n-7-dyhanna-shant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pegase-21.com\/index.php\/en\/2021\/07\/21\/n-7-dyhanna-shant\/","title":{"rendered":"n\u00b0 7 – Dyhanna SHANTI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mexico, Brazil, France, discover in this n \u00b0 7 of July the astonishing journey of Dyhanna, who through her training and her artistic experience, broadens her musical universe to genres as different as the French festive song, the Franco-Mexican rhythms , Irish music, jazz, traditional Polish music, baroque music, world music or prenatal singing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breathtaking !!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dyhanna SHANTI \/ \u00a9 <\/em>dy.shanti.music<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Mexico is your country of origin? In what city were you born and how was your childhood?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes. I was born in M\u00e9rida, Yucat\u00e1n, southern Mexico in 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had a somewhat hectic childhood … but happy thanks to my family’s support on the maternal side. My mom had me very young and it was not easy for her to deal with a toddler, her studies and her professional life. My biological father, also a musician, was always absent until the day he was gone for good. I was 4 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You have artist parents, what did they bring you?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I come from a family of musicians, from generation to generation. My mother, Katia, violinist and singer, is the daughter of Professor Juan-Alberto Bermejo Suaste, head of the string department at the School of Fine Arts in our hometown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    On the left: Mom around 14-15 years old – In the middle : Mom around 25-26 years old
    On the right : Mom and her friend Flavio in front of the Peon Contreras Theater Caf\u00e9
    \u00a9 dy.shanti.music<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Juan-Alberto had eleven brothers and sisters, most of them all amateur musicians who sang and played the guitar. He was the one who pushed his studies to become a school teacher while conducting many orchestras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Of the four children my grandparents had, it was my mother who fell in love with the violin. My uncles have had other backgrounds but they too sing and play guitar like real troubadours!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    My biological father, also a violinist, had a rather turbulent but brilliant career. Unfortunately, life was not easy and he was not there for his family. I have memories of him as happy as they are sad ..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    My parents met very young during orchestral sessions in M\u00e9rida. A love story that took the turns of a dramatic film. I never talk about it because it reminds me of a very painful time in my childhood. He left the family home when I was only four years old and my mother was becoming a mother for the second time with the arrival of my brother C\u00e9sar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Mom, my brother Cesar and me in 1992
    \u00a9 dy.shanti.music<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

    In any case, if I owe anything to anyone, it is undoubtedly to my mother and my grandparents for having transmitted to me the love for music and particularly for the violin that I wanted at all costs to learn. It was a need, like my life depended on it. A third lung? A second heart?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    At what age did you learn the violin? Who was your teacher?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    That’s a funny question because I feel like he’s always been a part of me. When I was about two years old, every time my dad played the violin in my presence, I wanted to take it (much like my daughter with me today!). He ended up buying me one my size from a craft market so I let him work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    My beginnings on the violin \/ \u00a9 dy.shanti.music<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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    My daughter Ariann’s debut \/ \u00a9 dy.shanti.music<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    It was later that I got a real little violin and started music school lessons when I was 5 or 6 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    My first teacher was my mom, then my own grandfather from 6 years old until I was 10\/11, in Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Merida School of Music: – End of year performance \/ \u00a9 dy.shanti.music<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    When I was 8, he took me to my first international competition in Mexico City. My first \u00ab\u00a0tall\u00a0\u00bb experience outside of my hometown and also my first time on a plane. Quite an event! I came in 6th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Back from the \u201cHermilio Novello\u201d International Violin Competition
    8 years in 1995 \u00a9 dy.shanti.music<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

    At 11 you left your country to go to Brazil? Why this country in particular?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Following the separation of my parents, my mother met, a few years later, the one who would later become my adoptive father, Bertrand Lecocq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    My mother wanted to learn French and pushed the doors of the Alliance Fran\u00e7aise, located in the \u00ab\u00a0Colonia Mexico\u00a0\u00bb district of M\u00e9rida, to register. It turns out that Bertrand was the director. Without going into the details of their budding love affair, he was due to leave Mexico to take a post in Brazil for a four-year contract. After a few months, he came back to ask my mother in marriage and the three of us left for Brazil, my mother, my brother then aged seven and me, eleven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    My brother C\u00e9sar and I at Pelourinho, Bahia, Brazil – 1999
    \u00a9 dy.shanti.music<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

    Everything happened really fast. We learned that we were going to leave Mexico to go to Brazil and then go to France to stay there!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    But this love for music, we have always managed to share it as a family, which has also allowed us to bond and expand our knowledge and musical tastes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      On the left, the announcement of the wedding shortly before our departure for Brazil
      and small musical moments with Maman and Papa Bertrand \/ \u00a9 dy.shanti.music<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      In your new country, did you go to school and continue to take music lessons?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Yes, I go to the private school \u201c2 de Julho\u201d in Salvador de Bahia. July 2 is the date of the city\u2019s independence in 1823<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      And I joined the IEM, (Institute of Musical Education) where I discovered the Suzuki method. It is a Japanese method implemented by violinist Shinichi Suzuki in the middle of the 20th century. The child starts learning music very early and the method is based on the principle of listening and repeating without knowing how to write music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Then I was enrolled in the music school of UFBA (Federal University of Bahia), which offered courses in musical training and classical violin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      On the left and in the middle: at the Institute of Musical Education
      On the right: at the School of Music of the Federal University of Bahia
      \u00a9 dy.shanti.music<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      I had individual lessons but also in groups and often parents were invited. It got us used to having an audience while learning a very varied repertoire. The degree of difficulty changed according to our pace and our motivation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Did you have to learn Portuguese?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Yes, in\u2026 two months before the start of the school year. Houuhouuy! Fortunately, Portuguese is a Latin language very similar to Spanish, my mother tongue. It’s a very happy and singing language and it helped me. It was a joy to learn it, it was like learning music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Three years later you arrive in France? Why France?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Remarried mom follows the chosen one of her heart, my step-dad, originally from the North of France, and after three and a half years in Brazil, we arrive and we settle in France, near Douai. I am fifteen and my brother Cesar eleven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      Arrival in France – June 2001 \/ \u00a9 dy shanti music<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

      Do<\/em><\/strong> you continue to take music lessons while pursuing high school and university studies?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      I continue yes, while learning French. But the method here was quite different. I had developed my musical ear a lot, but I had to get up to speed in music theory because it was higher at the Conservatory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      I first joined the flexible hours classes at the Coll\u00e8ge Albert Ch\u00e2telet in Douai (general lessons in the morning then musical afternoons at the Conservatory of the same city). Then I obtain a literary baccalaureate mention \u00ab\u00a0Arts and Music\u00a0\u00bb, then I opt for a BTS in trilingual Executive Assistant to secure an additional diploma while waiting to obtain those from the Conservatory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      I have always done double studies because it was inconceivable to stop the music which has always been my breath of fresh air. The parallel language studies, according to my parents, was to secure my future, and it was also in a way, the condition if I wanted to continue my music studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      So I arrived in License LEA (Foreign Languages Applied) at the University of Artois in Arras, believing that one day I could become a Spanish teacher, translator or interpreter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        Graduation ceremony at the University of Arras \/ \u00a9 dy shanti music<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

        I played on two fronts and for both I had to be efficient. I had some frustration because I was competing with other students who were only dedicated to music while I had my university job on top of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        I was trying to optimize the time working on the train or in the library next to the conservatory but it was never enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        To this, I added orchestral projects and concerts in Lille to live musical experiences. So I \u201ctraveled\u201d between Douai, Arras and Lille, my school bag on my left arm, my suitcase that I pulled with my right hand and my violin on my back, all in high heels for style !!! Always running so as not to miss the train or the bus … suddenly, I remained \u00ab\u00a0slim\u00a0\u00bb and sporty! (laughs …)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        But life has its mysteries … I validated my license in languages and obtained two gold medals at the Conservatory, but I pushed too hard! I’ve asked too much of my body in a very short time … and the price to pay will be severe tendonitis which made me stop playing the violin for two years !!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        With your musical background, you could consider a career as a musician and integrate you into the northerner musical landscape?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Well, I dreamed of it … but I was torn between studies and the concerts that I already gave a little to the right and to the left, with small groups or with orchestras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        Euro-2008 closing concert with the orchestra
        \u00ab\u00a0The Musicians of Europe\u00a0\u00bb – Geneva 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

        As for my musical background\u2026 Yes and no! I felt a bit lost and never up to the task after a mishap that made me lose confidence in myself. I didn’t feel out of place anywhere. Yet I felt that I had something to do and to give musically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        I didn’t really start off the way I would have liked, pushing the \u00ab\u00a0big door\u00a0\u00bb like the pros …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        And since I was stuck, I couldn’t exercise the music. I had to find a job. I was drawn to teaching and becoming a School Life Assistant seemed like a good solution while waiting for a job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        So I accompanied children with disabilities during their schooling. I started to offer musical moments. This is where I had a little revelation: I wanted to make music in schools, so that children, disabled or not, find their place, integrate into the group, experiment, exchange, discover each other’s abilities and have a good time together. I found that children with disabilities were quite sidelined and music allowed them to bond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        Music workshop for children’s books Lomme media library<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

        You reconnect with music by becoming a violin teacher and you get at the CFMI (Training Center for Intervening Musicians) the intervener diploma?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Yes, the coincidences of life …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        I needed to pick up the music somehow, to believe in myself again, to re-share my love for the violin and I agreed to do a replacement at a music school in Lille after almost two years of total cessation of the violin. I also wanted to get my voice back, which I had also lost …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Without being able to express myself through music, I no longer had a taste for anything. I took my courage in both hands and started lyric singing lessons to learn a bit of technique and for the pleasure of singing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        The CFMI Choir<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

        It was there that I started to meet people and first heard about CFMI training to become Musician Intervening. A phone call, an application file sent, admission tests accepted, I was ready for this new adventure while giving my violin lessons at the Faubourg des Musiques in Lille.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        And there, you make beautiful encounters?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Absolutely ! Thank you CFMI! I meet people and trainers great, incredible musicians and friendships that are still a part of my life today, near and far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        Leti (Laetitia Parisse) and Dy in Tandem (Valenciennes)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

        Let’s take a look at your encounters and your musical journey: \u00ab\u00a0Les P\u2019tits Oignons\u00a0\u00bb? When and how was this group born?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

        So, \u201cAux P’tits Oignons\u201d (APO) is above all a story of friends who set up a group for the pleasure of sharing festive moments together and in which I arrive when they begin to perform in the bars and restaurants in Lille.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Freshly arrived at CFMI, I meet Paul, the singer and guitarist of the group and his cousin R\u00e9mi, singer and accordionist. They invite me to rehearsals and the good atmosphere and festive music operate!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Who are the other musicians?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Paul and R\u00e9mi were the hard core of the training. Today, we are seven musicians and a sound technician: Paul and R\u00e9mi, Sam on percussion, Arnaud on keyboards, my brother C\u00e9sar on guitar and I on violin and vocals. Valentin joined us on bass and Fran\u00e7ois is on technique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        \u00ab\u00a0Aux P\u2019tits Oignons\u00a0\u00bb at \u00ab\u00a0F\u00eate de l\u2019Humain D\u2019abord\u00a0\u00bb (Human First Festival)
        \u00a9 aux.ptits.oignons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

        In the beginning we played without ceremony and little by little it became more and more serious. We were fortunate and happy to be able to participate in the F\u00eate de l’Humanit\u00e9, La F\u00eate de l’Humain D\u2019abord, the Festival des Enchanteurs, Tournai on the accordion, Les Belles Bretelles …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        \u00ab\u00a0Aux P\u2019tits Oignons\u00a0\u00bb \u2013 Festival des Enchanteurs (Enchanters Festival)
        \u00a9 Christophe Beaussart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

        How did you find your place in this typically \u201cFrench song\u201d formation? \u00ab\u00a0Les P\u2019tits Oignons\u00a0\u00bb is a festive, joyful, warm group, have you found any similarities with Mexican or Brazilian music?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Not quite. If I found my place in the band, I think it’s thanks to the fact that I like to improvise and bring my personal sounds. The violin can be festive but can also bring different tones and colors, softness, melancholy, some Mexican tones yes, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        But without falling too much into cliches, APO’s music remains first of all faithful to the \u00ab\u00a0guinguette\u00a0\u00bb sounds, in particular through the strong presence of the accordion. Everyone tries to add a personal touch. This is the wealth of the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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