Calogero weighs in on the attitude of certain singers at his beginnings in A Sunday in the Country

Guest alongside comedian Nora Hamzawi and novelist Valérie Perrin in A Sunday in the countryside this Sunday, December 22, Calogero spoke about his complicated solo debut in Music.

A welcome breath of fresh air for Calogero. While the Ile-de-France home of the 53-year-old singer was burglarized on the night of Friday 13 to Saturday 14 December 2024 (with several tens of thousands of euros of stolen goods), the artist will be able to relax during a country weekend with Frédéric Lopez in A Sunday in the countryside, alongside comedian Nora Hamzawi and novelist Valérie Perrin. This Sunday, December 22, Calogero will talk in particular about his beginnings in music, within the successful group Les Charts, with his brother Gioacchino. He was then 16 years old. The years go by but the songs gradually become too much “cottony“ for the artist, fan of The Cure and Depeche Mode. “Bored“, Calogero then decided to go solo in 1997.

“I was a little depressed” : Calogero evokes his slump in his early days, in A Sunday in the countryside

Problem, having been part “of a group of kittens“complicates Calogero’s task.”In France, it was pejorative for people in the profession. No one believed in me anymore. For some singers, I had leprosy. Singers that I won't mention, who had won Victoires de la Musique, didn't say hello to me. It was very difficult“, he confides to Frédéric Lopez on his Sunday show. Among the othershis first album produced by Pascal Obispo, will however enjoy real success: “It was he who put me back on track with my influences. He couldn't stand me being in the shadows. I was a little depressed. I hid it from my parents, from my friends. I met someone very important in this industry who, with his feet on his desk, told me that the image I had and where I came from, we could never get over it.“

“I don't blame anyone, but…” : Calogero tackles (with class) the music world in A Sunday in the countryside

Album after album, success grew for Calogero who ended up winning a prestigious Victoire de la Musique, that of male performer of the year, in 2004.I've never had any resentment and I don't blame anyone but I remember exactly who looked down on me and who remained faithful and polite“, concludes the singer. Class.