Three years after the phenomenal success of Liberté chérie, Calogero released a new album, Center Ville *. A concerned record that tells our time in a positive way. Interview with a modest and sympathetic singer, to listen to on Friday January 15 in La Chanson secrète, at 9:05 p.m. on TF1.
Télé Star: Funny time to release an album, right?
Calogero : It’s a funny moment for everyone. When we said non-essential culture, it pained me a lot. Culture is anything but non-essential. She changed my life, at least the music. I am happy that people have access to my music and that of others to lift the heart.
Hence the song that opens the album, It was better after. Like a shot of hope, an injunction to act while avoiding procrastination!
Because I am an optimist. I have four children, who are between 16 and 4 years old, I trust them. If we put the energy into saying that everything will be fine, everything will be better. This song is an invitation to take the first step with someone you want to kiss, a boss who you want to ask for a raise …
Have you already done it?
Yes, I arrived from my province at 18, I fell in love with Paris. You had to have the means to afford the life I dreamed of. I am the son of Italian worker immigrants. I started out living in a maid’s room, then a double, then a studio. Success did not come suddenly. I worked.
The young boy of the title The one below, in love with a girl who is not of her social class, is that a bit like you?
He looks like me. It’s happened to us all to put on our favorite pants or our best dress and get screwed. I was very much in love and for four years she did not want me. I think I made music to wow him. I positivized this rejection and I ended up not having it. (He smiles. )
The song titled Perhaps is a hymn that enjoins women to fulfill themselves. Are you a feminist?
I have my share of feminism. I don’t differentiate between men and women. I have three daughters and a boy. I educate them in the same way, so that they are independent in the same way. To see her, you have to study, be passionate about your job and make sure you have a choice.
You also dare a song called The weather, like Léo Ferré. How do you manage the passage of time?
As I can. Music keeps a lot. I believe a lot in the soul of a child who never dies when you are a musician. From the moment we are well in our life, we accept ourselves and we age well.
*Warner
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