his “relations of seduction” turned upside down from adolescence, “I know that it really played a role”

It is his victory The Voice in 2016 which launched the career of Slimane. Since then, the 35-year-old singer has continued to seduce the public. And if he seems as comfortable in the recording studios as on stage, the native of Montfermeil actually hides complexes inherited from his adolescence. He also spoke on the subject by revealing how his youth had changed his relationship with women.

Slimane is, this Friday, November 1, on stage at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes to the 26th NRJ Music Awards ceremonywhich is broadcast live on TF 1 and NRJ. The artist will perform My lovea song he presented to the Eurovision audience last May.

Slimane confides in his complexes

Guest by Nathalie Lévy on the set of the show As an aside broadcast on Canal+, Slimane looked back on his adolescence and the difficulties he experienced. If he is full of confidence and radiant on stage, it is a self-conscious Slimane that we discovered in this interview. “At the time of The Voice, I wasn’t finished in my head”he explains by way of preamble.

“I was 26 years old, I still had too many doubts about myselftoo many things to sort out for people to suddenly have an opinion on me. I didn't even know who I was. And this weight thing is something that follows me and will follow me until I think very, very old. It was something that traumatized me. As a child, it was complicated for me”revealed the representative of France at Eurovision.

Slimane's difficult adolescence

Adolescent, Slimane a Indeed suffered from gynecomastiaan enlargement of breast glandular tissue in men that results in the appearance of mammary glands “too accentuated”. “With my long eyelashes and the beginnings of my breasts, I looked like a girl”he reveals. And teenagers can be cruel sometimes. The singer explains in this regard that he was the victim of numerous humiliations in his youth. “It’s something that really disturbed me in my way of understanding my virility as a boy.

The singer shared an anecdote that marked him. “I have a memory at the swimming pool, where one day, a 20 or 22-year-old said to me: ‘But this isn’t the girls’ locker room here.’ And these are things that mark you and that manage, I believe a little in your relationship with others. I know that it really played a role in my becoming a singer. on my seduction reportsabout love, about the couple. It played a big role…”

Slimane learned to love himself

But the self-conscious teenager who was the victim of mockery has grown up. In the columns of StubbornSlimane explained that he had evolved and learned to love your body to the point of posing shirtless on the cover of his album Chronicles of a Cupid. “I see myself in The Voice, weighing twenty kilos less than what I have to do today and still arguing with the stylist for not being in a t-shirt on stage. I've come a long way”.

A change that he owes to the love of those close to him and the arrival of his daughter. “I have a family that helps me a lot. My parents are really there, my sisters too, my brother the same. I'm trying to be there for my daughter as much as possible right now, because I think it starts pretty quickly, to give everything I can give her.”