Certainly, Dua Lipa appreciates Belgian artists. After being successful with Fever in duet with Angèleanother artist from the Flat Country caught the eye of the British artist. It is about Pierre de Maere. Indeed, both recently recorded the hit These walls in French. A song available from last November 8 on all legal download platforms. Guest of France Inter, this November 26, the 23-year-old young man returned to his meteoric rise but also mentioned, in front of Léa Salamé, the genesis of this surprising collaboration.
It must be said that the interpreter of One day I will marry an angel East fan of the 29 year old young woman and has been listening to it assiduously for almost ten years. But if he found himself in the studio facing her, it's not at his request. Thus, on the microphone of public radio, he says: “I didn't do anything at all. Dua Lipa and her team, through the Warner label, wrote to me. It happened very quickly, a month and a half, two months ago” tells the sacred artist “Male Revelation” at the Victoires de la Musique in 2023.
Then, Pierre de Maere continues: “Dua Lipa wanted to sing in French. She absolutely wanted to imagine her title These Walls in French because she loves France, your beautiful country“But how did she get to him?”She asked for a list of French-speaking artists. Warner, very chicly, proposed my profile which she liked and so, I was suggested to write a verse and do my part. She listened, she said: 'I take it, I love it, you have to do it'“.
Pierre de Maere: impossible but true
When the good news is announced, Pierre de Maere found it hard to believe it. As he confides to the host of “Quelle époque” on France 2, he says: “Until it happens I don't believe it. I'm waiting for the moment in the studio to be truly euphoric“. Once in the studio, the Belgian can hardly believe his ears: “The moment the craziest thing is hearing him sing, in French, lyrics that I had written two weeks before, at home, in my apartment“. Finally, the usually very discreet one let go when he saw this “icon” behind the microphone: “I didn't let anything show, obviously, but I couldn't take it anymore. It was great“.
Moreover, on his social networks, Pierre de Maere has immortalized this moment on video. He is seen alongside Dua Lipa helping her with her French. “For one afternoon I became Dua Lipa's French teacher” he declared. A moment that he is clearly not ready to forget: “This release is part of events that I had not anticipated in this life” he wrote, still overwhelmed by this unique collaboration.
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