Calogero had a very successful year in 2024. The artist continued the exploitation of his album “AMOUR”, which sold 85,000 copies, while traveling the roads of France with his major tour, before announcing the arrival of his musical comedy on “Le Comte de Monte- Cristo.” That’s not all! Very inspired, the singer also unveiled his tenth album soberly titled “X”, containing duets with Soprano and his daughter Nina. It currently has just under 30,000 sales in almost two months. When his home has just been burglarized, Calogero went to RTL to talk about his career, he who has not only had successes, especially in his beginnings.
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“We were completely out of control all of a sudden”
When one of his first songs “De cendre et de terre” sounded, the former member of the Charts plunged back into his memories. “ I feel a release. It’s the end of the group, we stayed together for 10 years, we had success, from the second single it took off » recalls Calogero, who was then taken under the wing of a certain Pascal Obispo : « He is a bit like the artistic director of this album, and this is the first time that he will endorse a composer. At the time, in the eyes of people in the profession, I had a bit of leprosy “. For what ? “ It’s a bit like Robbie Williams when he left Take That. It was a group of girls! The boy bands arrived, we were musicians, we were overtaken. We were completely out all of a sudden » assures Calogero, who is then sidelined by the music industry: “ Nobody wanted to bet a kopeck on the Charts singer! ».
Fortunately, Pascal Obispo will save his career. “ He said, “I know this guy.” I knew him in the 90s, he wasn’t signed (to a record company). He is older than me but I was already known and he was not. He remembered me, he called my friend Delphine Benattar, my friend with whom I lived, and he said to her, “What the hell is he doing?” » confides today the interpreter of the “Departures Hall”, who is then “ completely in trouble » : « I didn’t have a penny anymore ». Calogero recalled his state of mind at the time, when he had hit rock bottom: “ I wasn’t up for it, I believed in it but I had doubts because I was starting to turn 28. I was told that I had to be the ideal son-in-law, the ideal boyfriend. It freaked me out a little “. And so it is Pascal Obispo who changed everything, seeing enormous potential in him: “ We met again, it had been 10 years since I had seen him again and he said to me “Ok let’s go, I’ll support you, do your songs” ».
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At the time, Pascal Obispo works for Patricia Kaas, but Calogero is omnipresent in the studio to make him listen to the songs from what will become his first solo album, “Amid the Others”. “ It was an extraordinary time because it was a bit like someone from my family putting me back on the path of my influences » rejoices the artist today, happy to have forged a strong bond with the public for more than 20 years.
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