Izia Higelin was born from the love between musician Jacques Higelin and dancer Aziza Zakine. Last of the family, she follows the same artistic path as her father and her half-brother Arthur H since she decides to get into music. At the age of 13, she wrote her first song and a year later, she made her first scene in Calvi.
Since her debut, the French singer has released five albums: Izia (2005), So Much Trouble (2011), La Vague (2015), Citadelle (2019) and La Vitesse (2022). A career crowned with success for the young prodigy who won three awards at the Victoires de la Musique. She was honored for Stage Revelation (2010) and twice for Rock Album (in 2010 and 2012). Today, the young artist shares her time with a second passion: cinema.
Izia Higelin took her first steps on the big screen in the film Mauvaise fille in 2012. A first film directed by Patrick Mille for which she won the César for best female hope and the Golden Star for female revelation the following year. . Since then, the pretty brunette has had a string of successful films.
The public finds her in Samba alongside Omar Sy and Charlotte Gainsbourg, as well as in the film Rodin with Vincent Lindon. In her film career, Izia Higelin also made appearances in A people and its king, Debout sur la montagne, Petite nature and Far from the ring road. In 2023, she will also star in the film Sur les chemins noirs. But, it is on another ground that the thirty-year-old artist stood out in public…
This summer of 2023, singer Izia Higelin is touring festivals in France. The opportunity for the interpreter of the tube My heart to meet his audience. But, during her visit to Nuits Guitares in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, on July 6, she invited the crowd to an imaginary lynching of Emmanuel Macron, in the form of a “giant human piñata”.
A controversial speech where she imagined them “all present here with huge bats with nails at the end”, before throwing this imaginary figure “into a Bengal fire of bonfire, living flesh and blood”. Controversial words which earned him the opening of an investigation and the cancellation of a concert in Marcq-en-Barœul on July 13, as indicated by Le Parisien.
A controversy that could cost Izia Higelin other musical performances, questioned by the cities in which it was scheduled. In order to clarify the situation, the mother of the family returned to her statements in an interview published in Ouest-France on July 11, 2023. “I am very sorry that this was misinterpreted, decontextualized. At no time obviously did I wanted to incite violence or hatred. It’s a story, an improvised and surreal link between two titles that talks about everything and nothing and that should not be taken at face value.