On November 22, 2024, Jenifer came out Jukebox 2002-2012his 10th album, offering new versions of his greatest hits.
For the occasion, the singer was invited on France Inter. She spoke about a song that deeply moved her, Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton. A piece that echoes a traumatic event that she experienced.
Jenifer speaks on Frédéric Pommier's microphone
Since his victory during the very first edition of the Star Academy in 2002, Jenifer was able to convince the public to follow her with many tubes. Recently, his new album Jukebox greatly pleases his long-time fans because they can rediscover old songs revisited by the artist. On Friday November 29, 2024, she was invited on France Inter, in the show It's a songhosted by Frédéric Pommier.
Jenifer spoke about a song by Eric Clapton that she particularly likes: Tears in Heaven. This piece refers to the mourning experienced by the singer following the death of his son in an accident in 1991. Jenifer, mother of three childrentried to understand what one might feel in such moments. “This is a subject that I understood later, and even more so when I became a mother. I have three sons. I dared to imagine putting myself in his place if I lost one of my children. Will I manage to survive? I don't know” she said.
Jenifer: “externalizing pain” and “accompanying grief”
Jenifer regularly listens to this song in order to “to externalize pain” et “to accompany sorrow”. “In a way, it served as an outlet for certain things I was experiencing. It's very intimate what I'm going to say, but I've already experienced miscarriages, for example.. Listening to this song, I had the impression to have lost a loved one“, she confides.
In reality, Jenifer thinks that if her connection with this song is so strong, it's because she lived this type of experience. “Sometimes it comes back to me, it was very intense pain. The song has this power to console me. Ultimately, there is something more terrible than what I experienced. It allows me to find myself, not to forget“.
A traumatic event for Jenifer
On his X account (formerly Twitter), Frédéric Pommier wrote that he was moved by Jenifer's confidences. He didn't expect it but more surprisingly, the singer herself didn't expect to make such revelations.
Fortunately, the 42-year-old artist was able to experience the happiness of being a mother, three timessince she had her first child, Aaron (21 years old), with Maxim Nucci, her second, Joseph (10 years old), with the actor Thierry Neuvic and her last, Juvanni (3 years old), with her current companion Ambroise Fieschi. Jenifer still clarified that she had written a song about her miscarriages but that she had never dared to sing it publicly.
