Joyce Jonathan won the final of “Cheng Feng”, plus grand telecrochet de China

PEOPLE – Joyce Jonathan, better known in China than in France? This Thursday, June 27, the French singer, who has moved away from the national spotlight since the birth of her daughter in 2020, won the final of Cheng Fengluck of Star Academy Chinese film watched by tens of millions of viewers.

« With the exposure of this show, my notoriety has changed a lot (in China, editor’s note)says the interpreter of It will be fine au Parisian. Fans are waiting for me downstairs from the hotel, it’s crazy. At the airport, the police ask me for autographs, the flight attendants recognize me, it’s funny. »

This Thursday, JJ, as she is nicknamed there, was the only European among the last twenty competitors; the public then named her as the big winner of this fifth season.

As in the Star Academy, Cheng Feng (or Ride the windwhich translates to “Surf the Wind”) is a reality TV show in which contestants take music lessons and rehearse to perform in live shows. The difference is that ” we are only women over thirty, who already have a professional background », Explains Joyce Jonathan to Parisian.

Back in France, Joyce Jonathan goes on tour

For four months, the French singer lived in “ pretty villas, in teams of two, three or four, with singing and dancing lessons every day “. And it hasn’t been easy. “ It’s extremely intense and exhausting. We work 22 hours a day, we sleep two hours a night. I’ve cried more than once from exhaustion, I’ve been sick right before a performance, I’ve seen white, I’ve thrown up ” she tells the daily.

Comfortable with Mandarin, she only sang one piece in French during the adventure: To the Champs Elysees by Joe Dassin, a song known to all Chinese people, she says. The time has come for her to pack her bags and return to French territory, where she is preparing to embark on a tour of around thirty dates this summer.

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