{"id":25671,"date":"2024-03-11T10:36:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T14:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/?post_type=nouvelles&p=25671"},"modified":"2024-03-11T10:36:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T14:36:27","slug":"meet-rvf-spokesperson-le-flo-franco","status":"publish","type":"nouvelles","link":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/news\/meet-rvf-spokesperson-le-flo-franco\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet RVF spokesperson Le FLO FRANCO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Le FLO FRANCO, the franco-Ontarian hip hop artist, is on a <\/span>cross-country tour<\/span><\/a> for the month of the Francophonie, and he is also on a mission to spread positivity, resilience, and his love for the French language and culture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

FLO, which stands for Fiert\u00e9 Loyaut\u00e9 Originalit\u00e9, is one of this year\u2019s Rendez-Vous de la Francophonie spokespeople, alongside Franco-Manitoban comedian Micheline Marchildon. His unique blend of multicoloured urban pop\u00a0 resonates with thousands across Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n

Le FLO FRANCO was born in France to Haitian parents. He was raised in Ottawa, deeply immersed in the city\u2019s Haitian and Francophone communities. As a youth, artists like La Compagnie cr\u00e9ole, Michael Jackson, Puff Daddy, MA$E, and LMDS (Les Messagers du Son) inspired him and helped to shape his unique style. FLO started rapping in Ottawa\u2019s independent hip hop scene at the age of 14, going on to collaborate with rapper and educator Yao in the RenESSENCE duo in 2005.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

FLO released three EPs between 2012 and 2017 and his first full-length album, <\/span>Force inh\u00e9rente<\/span><\/i><\/a>, came out in <\/span><\/i>2019. 2022 saw the release of his second album,\u00a0 <\/span>Trajectoire divine<\/span><\/i><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sophia D\u00e9sir, coordinator of the Language Portal of Canada\u2019s <\/span>Our Languages blog, <\/span><\/i>interviewed FLO<\/span><\/a> about the role that languages play in his life and music for this year\u2019s RVF.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Check out <\/span>Danser avec toi<\/span><\/a>, which was voted the <\/span>\u201cchanson francophone de l\u2019ann\u00e9e\u201d at <\/span><\/i>Manie Musicale 2023<\/span><\/i><\/a>, for an excellent example of FLO\u2019s musical and lyrical artistry.<\/span><\/p>\n

Catherine Fisher, blogger<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21008,"parent":0,"template":"","categorie-de-nouvelle":[63],"class_list":["post-25671","nouvelles","type-nouvelles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categorie-de-nouvelle-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nouvelles\/25671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nouvelles"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/nouvelles"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categorie-de-nouvelle","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categorie-de-nouvelle?post=25671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}