The identities of the performers on the Opening Ceremonies have been a intently guarded secret main as much as Friday’s spectacle alongside the Seine, however the French newspaper Le Parisien revealed just a few of the acts booked by the ceremony’s musical director Victor Le Masne.
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Who is Gojira, the metal band performing at the Olympics Opening Ceremonies?
Shaped by brothers Joe and Mario Duplantier within the southwestern French commune of Ondres in 1996 below the identify Godzilla, the group modified its identify to Gojira, the Japanese identify for the fictional monster that debuted on the massive display screen 70 years in the past, in 2001 attributable to copyright live shows. Gojira launched its first album, “Terra Incognita,” the identical yr.
Gojira has since obtained three Grammy Award nominations. In 2017, Rolling Stone journal named the band’s 2005 album “From Mars to Sirius” the 97th best metallic album of all time. Two of the songs on the album featured “themes of marine-mammal preservation.”
“An instantaneous hit of their native France, the band quickly grew to become spokespeople for environmental causes and Joe grew to become the nation’s first bona fide guitar hero in a long time,” Rolling Stone reported.
Le Parisien reported that Gojira, which holds the report for the loudest live performance at Stade de France, would carry out with Franco-Swiss opera singer Marina Viotti.
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