“My life has changed”, the emotional singer shares this event which changed everything at home

Like every week or almost, Frédéric Lopez arranged to meet three personalities in the field at the Moulin de Madame de Bransles, in the Paris region, to share an intimate moment with them far from the Parisian tumult. It is also and above all the opportunity for them to confide much more easily than they could usually do, as was recently the case for Emmanuel Moire who opened his heart to speak with humility of the way in which he had managed to overcoming the death of his twin brother. Sunday December 22, after the broadcast of a best-of last week, the star host of France 2 received the comedian Nora Hamzawi and the novelist Valérie Perrinas well as the singer Calogero.

The interpreter of Facing the sea took advantage of this escapade to discuss the release of his new album entitled Xwhose first extract revealed during the summer had largely divided its audience, as we noted on music lovers' forums or on social networks. Written in collaboration with Paul Ecole, with whom he has become an accomplice for several years, Hoshi or even Carla Bruni, this disc does not – for the moment – give rise to a new tour. Calogero has in no way mentioned this possibility for the coming months with Frédéric Lopez. On the other hand, for him and the viewers, he agreed to go back in time.

A tumultuous adolescence

Indeed, the ex-companion of Marie Bastide and father of four children remembered the beginnings of his career as a singer and musician. It was at the very end of the 1980s, in 1987 to be precise. There, Calogero had set up the group The Chartswith whom he released no less than five records in ten years, before its various members decided to go solo. Calogero is the one who has become the most popular and we can no longer count the number of hits he has to his credit, since As free as me in 2002, until Departures hall with Marie Poulain in 2023, without forgetting Yalla, One day in the wrong place or even If only I could miss him et Weightless.

Shortly before making himself known with the Charts, the man who was still only a teenager was failing at school. “I no longer wanted to go to school, there was only one thing left that fascinated me: history. I looked at historical friezes”he explained, before recounting how he experienced his first years of study in secondary school: “In sixth or fifth grade, a middle school principal told my parents 'Your son will do nothing with his life‘”. After which, he opted for a technical career and decided to become an electrician. Calogero then made it known that he had changed his mind to plumbing by listening to the songs of the group Depeche Mode which inspired him to make the noise of pipes. Improbable!

Calogero surrounded by his children to celebrate Christmas

But it was shortly after he stole records from a store that everything changed. Caught red-handed, the artist suffered his father's wrath. “What are you looking for?”his brother had also asked him. Although no one spoke to him again upon his return home at the time, he explained in front of the camera of the Two : “My life changed, I started my group a week later. I felt I had to find myself. I wanted to show them that I was going to do something with my life“he specified immediately, before concluding: “Two weeks later, he was very proud because we made our first songs”.

These revelations come even though Calogero has decided to celebrate Christmas early with his children. He has in fact just published a video on YouTube bringing together the siblings around him, in other words Nina, Romy, Pio et Ritato present a new version of his title And harmony which appears on his latest opus. The magic happens at dawn on December 25…

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