Elodie Frégé's concern before A Day with Balavoine: “Do I have the vocal abilities to sing that?”

Many artists met a few months ago in Biarritz to pay tribute, under the direction of Nach (Anna Chedid), to Daniel Balavoine. But for Elodie Frégé, participating in this show to be seen on Friday at 9:05 p.m. on France 3 was not so simple at first. Explanations.

After George Brassens in Sète then Jacques Brel in Roubaix, it is the turn of Daniel Balavoine to be honored by France 3. In A day with Balavoine, to be seen tomorrow evening on the channel, Nach (Anna Chedid) and the production of the show invited around twenty artists to Biarritz, where the famous interpreter of My son, my battledied in January 1986 following a helicopter accident on the sidelines of the Paris-Dakar.

Elodie Frégé's concern for the show on Balavoine

Among the artists invited to pay tribute to Daniel Balavoine is Elodie Frégé. Met during the filming of the show last June, the singer admitted that she had hesitated before trying out the repertoire of the man who had an impressive vocal range. “I was very happy that Nach called me because I find her brilliant and luminous. She is a complete artist (…) I participated in the first two shows but when she told me Balavoine, I said to myself: “Do I have the vocal abilities to sing Balavoine?” It’s still very, very difficult?“, admitted Elodie Frégé. After a moment of doubt, she came up with the idea of ​​covering a lesser-known hit by the singer: Lady Marlene. “It comes from a somewhat concept album, which I don't really know, around the Berlin Wall. But this song, in fact, was played a lot at my house and at my parents' house. I think that a of my sisters listened to it a lot, I felt in the melody and in the chords, the possible harmonies and I said to myself that I could sing it.. An opinion that Nach also shared while preparing the show. “Life is crazy. Nach told me that it was the song she had written in front of my name”added Elodie Frégé.

Elodie Frégé's beautiful tribute to Daniel Balavoine

Elodie Frégé also did not hide, during our meeting, her admiration for Daniel Balavoine. “His Music is already a good part of what passed through my eardrums and my emotions when I was young or a teenager. And one of my first emotions as a young woman was when he played the character of Johnny Rockfort In Starmania! I think it was one of the first times I really saw him act and sing.”slipped the singer who later discovered the other titles of Daniel Balavoine. “For me, he is a humanist, a rebel and a man with heart.”added the one who will sing Lady Marlene in duet with Martin Luminet.