23 years of career, five million albums sold, 2.5 million spectators on eight tours, nine NRJ Music Awards… and a record number of 55 covers of 7 Days TV ! These are the figures surrounding the career of Jenifer, guest on Saturday evening on the show “Quelle époque!” on France 2. The 42-year-old singer came to promote her latest record “Jukebox”, which is not ranked in the charts, in which she revisits the flagship hits of her first years of success. She will perform them on stage during her major “Jukebox Tour”, which will begin on January 16: “ I was reconciled by the team who accompanied me. I wanted to meet people in a small setting, in theaters, for this interactivity that I am constantly looking for ».
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“It was an experience”
During the show, Léa Salamé made him watch his very first TV performance again. In 1997, four years before “Star Academy”, the young Jenifer, then aged “ 14 and a half years old », appears on the set of the show “Graines de star” to perform “God gave me faith” by Ophélie Winter. Images that Jenifer had a hard time watching again today. “ I was uncomfortable, in my clothes, in my hairstyle… I love Ophélie Winter but I didn’t want to sing that song. At the same time, I didn’t really know what to suggest. I let myself be guided and it was an experience. I was happy to be there, without being fundamentally happy » she recalls, recalling that it was her family who pushed her to sign up for the casting of “Graines de star”: “ Music fit me a lot, it was my mother, my aunt, my uncle, everyone was involved in my life. And they did well to do it! I was a bit of a tomboy, I had done a few stupid things, I didn’t go to school very much… They signed me up, they sent me to Paris ».
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It is thanks to the “Star Academy” that Jenifer managed to fully embrace his desires for a career in music: “ I met friends, shared my passion with other people, met teachers… It helped me understand myself better, it served as a psychological center for me. I locked myself in a castle, I only had nice people around me, I got free lessons and everything else was outside so I was in a bubble “. And the interpreter of “Au soleil” recognizes that it was necessary to be “ strong and well surrounded » to face the “ crazy media tsunami » post-“Star Academy” : « I was lucky to have the education I had and the right people around me at the right time. I was totally carefree, and I became a mother at 20 so it suited me straight away. ».
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