Calogero committed crimes and reveals what helped him avoid falling into drugs

Guest on the show As an aside on Canal+ this Tuesday, November 5, Calogero spoke about his complicated adolescence and revealed how he got back on the right path with the help of his older brother.

On October 25, Calogero unveiled his tenth album entitled X. On track six, the eponymous song from this new record evokes the difficulties he went through during his schooling. “You will do nothing with your ten fingers”, “The ink has bled so much on my notebooks, red like dotted zeros”he sings about his academic failure which left him “scars”. Guest on the show As an aside presented by Nathalie Levy on Canal+ this Tuesday, November 5, Calogero confided in this title which is close to his heart. “Regarding the song Xit’s not because we don’t get 10 at school that we can’t get good grades in life afterward”, he assured before giving the story of his sometimes complicated adolescence.

Calogero confides in his complicated adolescence

“I was a difficult student, it was not a gift to have me in the class”Calogero admitted to Nathalie Levy. “Academic failure is a fact, but I was still the type to put myself at the back of the class and [à être] a little dissipated”he confessed. “Afterwards, there is inevitably a crossroads, we start to do stupid things”he continued before mentioning the crimes he regrets having committed: “I started stealing the entire Cure collection. At one point my older brother came to pick me up because I got caught stealing the records.”

This discussion with his brother which pushed Calogero to get back on the right path

Ultimately, it was with the help of his older brother that Calogero got back on the right path. “My brother François told me: ‘What do you want to do? What are you looking for?’ And that, it was a very important day. That was exactly what I needed to be told.”reported the interpreter ofWeightless before congratulating oneself on not having “flipped to the other side” thanks to his passion for Music: “Then there are drugs, there are more serious things. And fortunately, there was music.”