Nicoletta (80 years old) lets loose her uninhibited opinion on Joey Starr: “It’s…

GQ France (DR) / TV5 Monde (DR)

By Elsa Girard-Basset | Web journalist

Back on the scene for the release of an event album retracing her entire career, Nicoletta shows that she has lost none of her outspokenness. And while she shares some of the anecdotes that she had kept secret until now, the octogenarian gave her opinion on a certain Joey Starr, with whom she seems not to have much in common at first glance. And yet…

A singer with impressive longevity, Nicoletta has known almost everything. The highs, the lows, the glory of the 1970s and the duets with the biggest names in French music. It is therefore quite natural that today, the woman who celebrated her 80th birthday on April 11 is offering herself a last stand with the album “Nicoletta: the complete”, a true must have which traces his entire career.

During this career, in fact, the artist of Italian origin has often surprised, and has regularly taken the opposite view of what was expected of her. This is how in 2013, she signed a song with Joey Starr, who one might have thought was the polar opposite. And from this collaboration was born a real mutual respect.

Nicoletta very complimentary to Joey Starr

Passing on the set of “TV5 Monde”, the interpreter of “Mamy Blue” spoke about her unexpected friendly relationship with the native of Saint-Denis:

It’s my friend. He is very pleasant to know in life, in private, with his friends. He is very well mannered, he is charming, he is not at all the boy we are used to hearing on TV. You don’t rap by being funny. He played the game of his work, now he has changed a lot, he acts more and more, he sings less and less. He is very busy.

Following her momentum, the singer did not hesitate to appeal to the rapper, in whom she definitely finds only good qualities:

He has one problem that is interesting: he cooks very well. I’m still waiting for him to invite me. So JoeyStarr, if you can hear me, I would love to try your Caribbean cuisine.

If Nicoletta’s words may be surprising at first glance, especially given the sulphurous past of the member of the NTM group, they have the merit of once again highlighting the song “The voice of the angels”, recorded by the two artists ago about ten years. For the curious among you, here it is below:

Regularly criticized for his volatile temperament, his legal convictions and his slip-ups, Joey Starr has the esteem and respect of Nicoletta, who saw in him a man clearly very different from the one the general public knows. An unexpected collaboration and friendship, which prove that anything can happen!