Interview between Roch Voisine and his sons: “It wasn’t always easy to have these two lives” – Roch Voisine

Rather discreet by nature, Roch Voisine will open, for a rare time, the doors of his privacy in a new documentary, Roch Voisine: The ascentsitting at the same time for the first time in front of the cameras with his sons, Kilian and Alix-Élouan.

The singer will return, among other things, with them to certain notable moments of the Rochmania, which characterized a large part of his career, and the separation between the father of the family that he was at home and the stage artist, to which he always held dearly.

“I always told my boys that they could play the media game when they were ready to deal with the aftermath,” he said in an interview with the QMI Agency.

“I find that we use children a little to gain publicity under the pretext that we are proud… Everyone is proud of their children. I still think that this is not the place,” continued the singer-songwriter who has always taken care to preserve the anonymity of his children to protect them, even if it means excluding them from class photos.

“I think they quickly differentiated between Dad and Roch Voisine. Dad doesn’t shave, he has a baseball cap on his head with glasses and he dresses a little shabby. For me, it was not always easy to be in front of the children and to have these two lives, but the life that was important was the one with them,” he mentions in particular in the documentary which will be released this Sunday evening on TVA.

During this 90-minute meeting which will bring together a host of archive images, interviews and performances, the singer will discuss the impacts of fame with some of his friends and colleagues, including Garou, Ludovick Bourgeois and Béatrice Martin (Cœur de pirate).

He will also return to where the idea of ​​a career in music began to germinate in him; at his residence at the University of Ottawa, where he studied kinanthropology and for which he played hockey in the mid-1980s.

“We went to college, to the stairs where I played when I had a gap in my schedule. It had been 35 years, 40 years since I had been there. For me, it was an exercise that was very interesting to do,” he told the QMI Agency.

Without forgetting that viewers will finally discover who the real Hélène is.

“I am considered hearing impaired”

Roch Voisine recently revealed to the magazine Closer that his hearing had been affected, in January 2024, following streptococcus A.

In Roch Voisine: The ascenthe also explains that he had already had hearing problems in recent years due in particular to the stage equipment of the time and the shrill screams to which they were exposed every evening.

“I am considered hard of hearing,” he confides in the documentary, revealing that he has been wearing hearing aids for 6-7 years now.

“At the time, there were returns to the stages. We could hear the screams of the spectators very loudly. Every night, we blew our ears,” he adds, explaining that his streptococcus in the ear had eaten away part of his skull, requiring a major operation as well as the postponement of his tour which should be continue until the end of 2025.

Created by Jean-François Blais, Isabelle Viviers and Yves Lefebvre, the documentary Roch Voisine: The ascent will be presented this Sunday on TVA and TVA+, starting at 8:30 p.m.