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Maison

Emilio Piano ft. Lucie

Music of the Week, October 24, 2025

Maison

Emilio Piano ft. Lucie

This week’s wonderful music pick was suggested by subscriber and Solari collaborator Anna, and it is a real treasure of a song.

Composed by Paris-born Emilio Piano and sung by 15-year-old Lucie, the song has gone viral ever since its first keystrokes were heard in February of this year. Lucie is an enthusiastic musical teenager who in 2023 reached the finals of the French The Voice Kids talent show. She had approached Emilio while he played the piano in a shopping center and asked him to play “Voilà,” a song we have previously featured in Music of the Week. They seem to have struck a mutual chord.

Emilio Piano, whose full name is Emil Jean Joachim Reinert, has gone from being a fully trained classical pianist to a global phenomenon with over 35 million followers. “Maison” is his first original song, both in lyrics and music—and what a stunning ballad it’s become.

In Anna’s words: “I smiled at the beauty of it, and tears swiftly followed, before I even translated the words. Such talented individuals—the control, the timing, the pauses and soaring highs and lows—it’s utterly captivating. I felt compelled to share it with you.”

Thank you for doing so!

 

Lyrics in English:

Where do we go?
When we have no home to return to?
Flowers beneath concrete,
Mother, tell me,
Where do we go?

Will we ever really know?
Or are we just pretending all the time?
Where does the heart go when it’s lost
In doubts and winter frost?

Why do the days all look alike?
Do we eventually see what we’ve built?
Mother, tell me

Beyond,
The storm, there lies
Love, love, love
When the sky opens up
Everything becomes calm again
And all is well

Where does it go?
Happiness, that fragile thread
When it wavers and breaks
Mother, tell me,
Where does it go?

Why does the world seem so vast
When we grow just a little taller than before?
What becomes of the dreams that flee
And the memories we forget?
Will I always have these questions?
Perhaps I’ll turn them into songs.

Mother, tell me
Beyond,
The storm there lies
Love, love, love
When the sky opens up
Everything becomes calm again
And all is well

Links

Emilio Piano (Homepage)

Lucie on Tiktok

One of Emilio’s ad hoc (maybe) encounters in a public place (Warsaw airport)

Related at Solari

Music of the Week: April 5, 2024: Emma Kok – Voilà


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