It's cult. In 2007, Julien Doré won the fifth season of La Nouvelle Star. However, it started badly for the singer in the talent show. At the castings in Marseille, he presented himself with his ukulele, but the jurors asked him to sing without his instrument. “I only have one ukulele song planned,” he replied to the jurors. « I'm going to ask you to leave with your ukulele »Marianne James asked him.
Behind the scenes, Virginie Efira, who presented the programhad convinced him to represent himself before the jurorswithout his ukulele. He had done it, enough to allow him to win his place in the competition. The rest is historic.
“I always wondered, if you hadn't gone back in front of the jury, where would you be, would you be a singer today? »wanted to know Laurent Delahousse who received Julien Doré in 8:30 p.m. SundaySunday November 10, 2024. “That’s a question I sometimes dream about at night”replied the singer. And to return to his feeling when Marianne James asked him to leave: “I don't feel upset at all about being rejected from the casting at this time, but II'm a little ashamed of myself. »
Julien Doré: “I was stressed, terrified”
“I’m ashamed of not knowing how to answer: “Of course, I’m putting down my instrument.” I had nothing coming to me. I was stressed, terrified, obviously, as one can be in front of cameras and I was ashamed when I walked through the door”continued Julien Doré. “Fortunately, Virginie, through her words, reassures me. There's something that clicks, I think of a song, À la favor de l'ombre, from Tété, and I say to myself: “I think I can do a verse and a chorus.” » It worked.
Julien Doré then stood out from the other candidates with covers of songs in his own way, which marked the history of the program, such as his version of Hi Lolita. Which he covers once again in his new album Imposteur. A title that he did not choose at random.
“We can feel like an impostor sometimes”he explained. “Sometimes when we experience happy things, we feel like the world is so bad that we can't allow ourselves to experience the pretty things. This is something that worries me a lot, especially for new generations and for my little boy. As for this word, placed on the music, it's one of the first words that I read in some articles at the time of La Nouvelle Star which questioned this candidate that I was. » He proved that he was not an impostor, with the career he had after the show.
