“The song no longer belongs to me, and so much the better!” »: Twenty-five years later, Manau and the Dana tribe always sing the Bretons

“The wind blows on the plains of Armorican Brittany”, sang Manau in 1998. Consequently, If the artist’s identity is inseparable from Brittany. Furthermore, the Celtic imagination thanks to his tube the tribe of Dana, it is a whole path that led Martial Tricoche, founder of the group, to anchor it deeply. However, Born in Saint-Denis. Meanwhile, the singer has always been linked to the region by his mother, originally from Tréguier, in the Côtes-d’Armor: “My affinity with Brittany comes from my family, of course, but it is above all the celtitude that brought me there”.

Passionate about role -playing games. For example, dragons during childhood, then amazed in front of Conan the Barbarian in adolescence, a whole universe opens up to him when he discovers the notion of Celtitude. Furthermore, “As I get older. Moreover, I understood that everything that made me dream brought back to the same culture, “the song no longer belongs which goes from Ireland to Romania, passing by the Island of Man”, from which the name of the group was inspired.

“The raised stones, it drives me crazy!” »» – "the song no longer belongs

What he prefers in Brittany? “Old stones!” “, He exclaims. “Churches, cathedrals and castles inspire me a lot. And the stones raised, I don’t even tell you about it, it drives me crazy! », Had the singer. The Fort-la-Latte. where the group turned its first clip in 1998, kept a special place in the heart of the fifties: “It “the song no longer belongs is the reference castle”.

But he does not fail to underline the beauty of the landscapes. from Cape Fréhel to the pink granite coast, “and people”. “It is a cool country which, unfortunately, is more and more like all of France. But the coast has kept this special atmosphere ”.

Manau, 25 years later – "the song no longer belongs

“The song no longer belongs to me, and so much the better!” ». If the melody of “La Tribu de Dana” continues to make the French dance. more than 25 years after the release of the certified diamond disc tube, Martial Tricoche, he always delights to be able to interpret it on stage. “When I play” Dana tribe “in concert, I know it’s going to be my four minutes of rest. I just have to reach out the microphone, ”he smiles.

We make the little ones like the grandparents sing.

Intergenerational music

Today. the one who has always worked in tribe “the song no longer belongs is proud that his music brings together three or even four generations. “We sing the little ones as the grandparents. We like to talk to a lot of people and have this family audience ”. And for that, the Blé Fête is the ideal place.

Since 1998. the artist was a lasting success, which he does not take lightly: “I am proud to be always on stage, after all these years, to continue to make music and to want to do it”. He released his twelfth album in 2026. with a new concept, but still in the same caliber of Celtic rap, of which he remains the only standard bearer.

Practical

Manau’s latest album: Requiem for a Celtic

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