Manon Lisa

In agreement with W Live, 1 January 2025. Manon Lisa tells her friends that music is over.

Yet it is her whole life. From her rock band in the south at 16 to the Parisian studios, where for several years she wrote and composed for Céline Dion, Maëlle and The Avener.

It is on becoming a mother in 2023 that everything changes. Creating for others no longer makes sense, to the point of wanting to stop altogether.

But one morning in April 2025, the pen starts to itch. She sets about rewriting Youssoupha's Dieu est grande. He addresses his daughter; she chooses to address her son. How do you raise a little boy in 2025? How do you make him understand that his sensitivity matters, that all women are counting on him?

She posts the video without a second thought. The views keep coming in, and Youssoupha himself praises the text. So, throughout the year, Manon Lisa rewrites iconic songs with a feminist and committed angle: harassment, fascism, ecology, grief… Her community reaches 750,000 followers.

Among these texts, Le Petit Pêcheur particularly resonates: an ode to idleness, 50 million views within a few months.

It is the last song her father listens to before he dies. He, usually so reserved, tells her he loves this text, that it makes sense. That she should go for it.

So Manon Lisa releases Le Petit Pêcheur on 11 February 2026. The response from the public is immediate and heralds a follow-up full of songs, concerts and encounters.