EHer name is Loulia Esteves. She is 25 years old, grew up in Angoulême, spent her adolescence on the benches of Jules-Ferry college and Guez-de-Balzac high school. Friday evening, she will be on TV, in the semi-final of the show The Voice… but in Germany. It is in Berlin that the young woman has now set down her bags, there she studied music and there she decided to try her luck to give a new twist to her career.
Loulia Esteves is the daughter of Catherine Esteves, the boss of the Angoumois production and cartoon house Les films du Poisson rouge. “I worked with the Angoulême studio: I notably made the music for the Open Bar series, broadcast on Canal+,” explains the musician on the phone from Berlin, a few hours before the semi-final of The Voice.
“I chose to live in Berlin after my master's degree in music obtained there. It’s a place that suits me well, very culturally rich,” says Loulia Esteves, who wants to make a living from her music. “I'm giving a few concerts, it's still a little hard to get by. It pays the rent. The Voice is for me an opportunity to take a step forward.”
In The Voice, Angoumoisine first successfully passed the blind audition test. “I sang The Lady is a Tramp, by Frank Sinatra, offering a version in five languages,” explains the polyglot: in French, English, German, Korean and Finnish. She chose to work with the Finnish coach of the jury.
Friday November 22, for the TV evening dedicated to battles, she sang in French: “La vie en rose”, by Edith Piaf. Far from his musical universe. “On stage, I mostly offer RnB sounds, mixed with funk with jazz influences,” describes the twenty-something, ready for the semi-finals of The Voice, but a little tense. “Mixture of stress and excitement.”
Far from the lands of her childhood, Loulia Esteves keeps Angoulême in the back of her mind. She remembers that it was in Charente that she started singing. “And I came back to play for the music festival last year.”
The Voice Germany is broadcast on the ProSieben and SAT.1 channels, provided you have access to German channels. Otherwise, the show can be accessed via the Joyn streaming platform or by using a VPN.
Excerpts and performances are also available for free on YouTube. This is the case with Loulia Esteves’ performances.
