In an article published this Thursday, May 2, the weekly magazine returns to the “secret story” which pushed the gypsy singer to “simulate his suicide”, leading to his gunshot wound on April 22 in Biscarrosse (Landes).
Behind his smile, which never seems to leave him, his laughing eyes and his joyful demeanor, hide suffering and despair which led him on April 22 to commit a dramatic gesture. Ten days after his gunshot wound, which occurred in his caravan at a Traveler reception area in Biscarrosse when he wanted to “faking suicide” For “scare your wife”Kendji Girac and his partner Soraya are on the front page of the latest issue Paris Match this Thursday, May 2.
The beginning of a vast questioning
The weekly magazine looks back at the reasons behind the winner of season 3 The Voice to try to end his life, and contextualizes the state of mind in which he could have found himself before the tragedy.
Paris Match date September 10, 2023 “the beginning of a vast reconsideration for Kendji”. Since he won the telecrochet on TF1, ten years earlier, this is his first slump: no commitments, no tour on the horizon, nor an album project “in preparation for”.
Plenty of time to think about the reasons for his anxieties and the loneliness he can feel: the repeated absences of his family from his concerts, the frequent arguments with his wife Soraya, a Swiss of Portuguese origin who has never was accepted by the singer’s gypsy family, his lifestyle in contradiction with the desires of the latter, to whom he promised to settle down for the schooling needs of their daughter, Eva Alba.
Need for freedom
But the sacrifice is enormous for someone who has always lived and found happiness on the roads with his family and who remains torn between his nomadic life, his need for freedom, the demands of his job and the desire for a sedentary life. for his daughter. This is where the fall into a “whirlwind that he did not feel coming”. He then takes refuge in drugs; cocaine and alcohol to forget family pressure, the promise made to his wife and daughter and the anxiety of settling down.
Yet everyone who knew the artist paints the same portrait of a young man “kind” And “polite” has “to be wise”, which exudes the joy of living. The events of April 12 will prove them wrong. And his wife Soraya did not digest them. “In deep anger”the young woman would have left the Biscarrosse camp the day after the tragedy and without even visiting Kendji in the hospital, to return home to Switzerland with their daughter.
“She finds him irresponsible, endangering the life of their daughter”, who slept in the caravan, tells one of their relatives to Paris Match. “I don’t think she wants to have an explanation with him at the moment.“. While waiting to try to pick up the pieces with his partner, Kendji Girac will have to devote himself to his rehabilitation. Seriously injured in the chest, the singer is preparing for a long convalescence.
