After two singles since his victory at the star Academy in November 2022, the 23-year-old singer returns this Friday with a luminous first album with pop and folk sounds. The opportunity to find the light again, after several months of discretion?
A first big step in Anisha Jo’s career. The winner of the 2022 promotion of the star Academy unveils his first album this Friday, November 3 Lighton the eve of the start of the new season of TF1’s musical telecast.
Quite reserved about the evolution of her projects since her victory, unlike the other finalists of the star Academythe 23-year-old singer began the release of this album with two singles, You shine And Autumn. She returns with a disc of 13 tracks with pop and folk sounds, designed to be “universal”.
Imagined from the title The Lightwritten in English by Anisha Jo before the adventure star Academy, this album sets “several types of lights” to music, according to the singer. “There is the light which gives us courage, the hope to move forward, the light which each person carries within themselves to make others happy and the light which takes us out of the shadows and which presents itself to us as the star Academy introduced herself to me,” explains Anisha Jo.
“I was in the shadows of my room, they came to get me and put me in front of the stage to sing I’m sick from the first night and I was literally in the spotlight,” she continues.
Supported by Camélia Jordana
The album Light was also born from a challenge for Anisha Jo: the desire to write texts in French. Until then, the singer born in Madagascar only wrote pieces in English and a few poems in the language of Molière, one of which gave birth to her single Autumn, released at the end of September.
“When I knew I was going to make an album, I didn’t yet have any songs written in French so at that time, there were a lot of song proposals, but for me, it was really important to bring my pen to this album,” she explains.
To help with this challenge, the winner of the star Academy surrounded herself with authors and composers Antoine Graugnard (Claudio Capéo, Arcadian) and Jean-Etienne Maillard (Zaz, Christophe Willem, Bon Entendeur, BigFlo and Oli) but also renowned French artists like Camélia Jordana.
The singer who had already co-written Anisha Jo’s song From up therewith Vitaa during her time in the star Academyrenews its collaboration with the young artist on the song My letter.
“I was very touched that she thought of me for a song and I wanted us to work together again. We started from scratch and I came up with the idea of writing a letter to my audience. We finished together a first verse, then a chorus… And that gave birth to the song Ma Lettre”, details Anisha Jo.
A nod to Madagascar
In this disc, Anisha Jo also pays musical homage to her Malagasy roots with the title Irerywritten in his native language several years before his participation in the star Academy.
“This song talks about the loneliness when you have to leave your country to try to succeed in life. At the end, I also say a kind of prayer for my Malagasy compatriots, who supported me a lot in France and Madagascar” , says Anisha Jo.
“The song has a bit of the typical sound of Madagascar, with guitar, an acoustic side. And it was really important for me to have it in the album,” assures the singer.
With this album, Anisha Jo also wishes to move away from the register of vocal songs with which she made herself known during the star Academy. The 23-year-old artist here explores more of the “pop, rock and folk” genres with which she started out in music.
“Since the release of Star Academy I have been identified with great songs in voice but in reality I started singing with rock songs from the 70s and 80s”, assures Anisha Jo.
Thanks to his audience
Lights is also an opportunity for Anisha Jo to thank her audience in music, loyal since her beginnings at the star Academy in November 2022 as well as all the people who worked with her on this album. The singer dedicates a song to them, THANKSthe final track of the album, written after a showcase last December.
“After this showcase, I was touched by the love of the public who came to see us and once on the bus I took out my phone to write. It came very naturally,” says the artist.
But once in the studio, Anisha Jo encountered some difficulties recording the title. “I was so emotional that at one point I had to stop singing because my throat was tight,” she confides. The singer then comes up with an idea: leave the studio and return home to record the song alone in her room.
“I was with my microphone at home. I turned everything off and I went back to this period where I was known to no one and I was making songs by myself in my room. I recorded it in one take directly. It was the right one,” recalls Anisha Jo.
If the singer is quite discreet in the promotion of Light on social networks, she will nevertheless have the opportunity to defend this new album on stage and to directly thank her audience, with a very first concert date planned at the Café de la danse in Paris, on December 1st.
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