Dominique and Barbara, committed to culture and openness to others

Dominique Duplande-Ychou, marraine de Barbara Derathé pour le Fil Rouge de Midi Libre.

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Dominique Duplande-Ychou has a motto: “highlight the cultural richness of our region, capable of satisfying everyone's desires, as well as the local artists who make us dream. We need it so much, but it's a real marathon! Director of development for the company Medi'Art, which notably publishes L'Art-Vues, ​​the cultural magazine of the Occitanie – Pyrénées Méditerranée region, she strives to favor human relations and rsquo;openness to others since the beginning of his career as a lawyer then in fashion and at the service of different institutions in Paris. In 2007, she met Barbara Derathé, then a very young lyrical artist. "I was sensitive to his journey. She’s quite an astonishing girl, confides Dominique Duplande-Ychou with emotion. For her work, her will, her baroque talent and her success, I wanted to promote her.

"When you have a voice, you have to make it heard" 

Barbara Derathé is delighted to have been spotted like this. "I come from a family of artists. Art is part of my education and my culture. Becoming a soprano is a long journey that requires a lot of resilience and work, questioning but also self-confidence" confides the 34-year-old young woman.

She is also president of the Montpellier branch of Young Europeans, a transpartisan NGO born in the 1990s which defends a more democratic and, ultimately, federal Europe. "I’have always been committed. I can’t imagine my journey as an artist any other way. When you have a voice, literally, you have to make it heard.