Since its recognition at the Victoires de la Musique at the start of the year, Zaho de Sagazan has become a phenomenon.
The singer spoke to Audrey Crespo-Mara this Sunday in “Sept à Huit”.
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Seven to eight
A mischievous air tinged with melancholy, this is how we could summarize Zaho de Sagazan. She’s also a singular voice, the kind that gives you goosebumps, like at the Cannes Film Festival last May where her ethereal, barefoot, tearful cover of David Bowie’s “Modern Love” instantly became a hymn. However, nothing predestined the 24-year-old singer to such success. Except perhaps for having grown up in a family where music reigned supreme. With a stage, a large mattress in the middle of the living room where, with her three big sisters and her twin, she could sing and dance.
“I had a mother who was a teacher, who loved children and who knew that children needed to express themselves, and a father who was a painter (…) It was a very noisy family, there were always people there at home. It was very lively. My father invited us to be original by imposing his originality on us. We had a truck to bring the family of seven and it was of all colors (…) At home too. , everything was crazy, there is not a wall of the same color”she confides to Audrey Crespo-Mara in the video at the top of this article, replay of the “Portrait of the week” from the TF1 show “Sept à Huit” this Sunday.
I’m just waiting for one thing: to fall in love.
Zaho de Sagazan
Delighted to have a house that is unlike anyone else’s, Zaho is just as original as her first name, found after a family onomatopoeia competition. “Everyone had a very original first name”she said. Despite this carefree and light-hearted childhood, the departure of her three older sisters from home, when she was 13, plunged her into infinite sadness: “I lost my sisters, finally, it was such a big tragedy in my head and I am discovering adolescence above all, with a sensitivity which will be exacerbated at that moment”. The young girl she was then gained a lot of kilos. “15 in a year and a half”, she specifies. “It’s becoming a drama, I don’t recognize myself. I have emotions that are way too strong in my chest. I have a feeling of storm in my heart that I can’t handle and that needs to explode”.
It is the discovery of the piano that will reconcile the teenager with her sadness. “I realize that crying on my piano is much more interesting than crying in front of my mother or on my pillow (…) Finding the words will change everything because I will say to myself: ‘finally, I’m going to be understood,'” she says. And like a snub, “Tristesse” is one of the titles from her first album, “La symphonie des éclairs”, where she asserts: “Sadness, get out from there”. Love is also at the heart of his songs, and yet Zaho has never met it yet. “It’s true (…) At 15, I had confidence in only one thing, it was in music, so I wasn’t very open to anything else. And at the same time, I didn’t “Just one thing is to fall in love. I feel like I’m made for that.”she says. Zaho even sees herself becoming a great lover: “I have infinite love to give. I want to have lots of love just as I want to have lots of friends. I am very greedy for experiences”.
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In the meantime, friendship takes all the space. “There is such a beautiful simplicity in friendship. I have friends that I love from the depths of my being and what’s more, I have the chance to work with them (…) I don’t know who I will be without my friends I don’t even know what I will do and why I will be here without friends. proclaims the one who knows what it means to devote time to others. Because during her studies, when she had to find a small job to earn money, she naturally turned to the profession of care assistant: “It was one of the most beautiful experiences of my life. These are often very old people. For me, it is one of the most beautiful jobs in the world. It is a job which represents kindness in its purest form, that is to say, you give without expecting too much in return, because you are paid a pittance and no one applauds you.. Or the opposite of her profession where she believes that we are “much too considered”. “When I look at a care assistant, I tell myself that there is no reason why I should be more considered than her because it is a total gift of self”she emphasizes.
As a result, Zaho learned not to “to show off”as she says. “That’s the problem with this environment, there are too many pedants. You save no one. You obviously do good, that’s the power of music, but there are plenty of people who do good too”she concludes, determined to continue to bring a little happiness and companionship to elderly people by performing in nursing homes. “It does me as much good as it does them,” she smiled.
