Flagship singer for Yéyé years, Sheila will celebrate her 80th birthday next August. With sixty years of career in the clock, she always looks resolutely forward, evidenced by her 28th album released on April 4 and named “In the future”.
At the age of 18, in 1963, Sheila released her very first tube, “the school is over”. Today at almost 80 years old (August 25), the singer does not delight in her memories. His 28th album, released on April 4, also bears the evocative title of “In the Future”.
“I am someone who goes ahead, I live in front, not behind,” said Sheila on BFMTV. Seen as the last icon of the 1960s still alive, the singer is indeed often brought back in this past by the media. But Sheila prefers to hang on to the future and “learn to repair her heart yourself, whenever he is tearing himself apart”, as she sings in the title “Dilemma”.
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A tribute to Simone Veil
In this new album, the singer also pays tribute to the icon of the Women’s Rights Simone Veil. Even if the inequalities persist, Sheila reinforces in particular against sexism in the music industry and against ageism. After 40 years, women women disappear from labels and the media, points to the sixties icon on RTL: “Julien Clerc or Alain Souchon, men, we praise their careers, we pass their albums … But why we, women, we are not there? We made the same careers as guys”.
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Faith and religion
“In the future”, which contains twelve titles mixing pop, rock and electro, also evokes spirituality with the title “and God in all of this”. “Religion is a complicated subject, I believe in everything, explains Sheila to a Belgian daily life. Faith is what brings us together. Religion is what divides us”.
For the singer, “we have a higher force inside us”. A force she calls “a little white soul”, also a title of the album.
“A little white soul that saves me the worst,” sings Sheila with resilience that seems endless, like a guardian angel who would take care of her. This resilience could be called love, another central theme of this 28th album (“Les Amouvres” or “les vaga”).
Always full of energy, the tireless singer will launch herself in a tour of six dates in France in September, without forgetting a passage by Switzerland this summer at the Venoge Festival.
Radio subject: Yves Zahno
Adaptation web: mh
Sheila, “In the future” (New Chance). Published on April 4, 2025.
In concert at the Venoge Festival on August 14, 2025.
