Bureau 233/ITV/TF1Luc Laversalle on the set of The Voice, on TF1, February 27, 2021.
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MEETING – “You change people’s lives”, attests Elisabeth Moreno. On the other side of the table, singer Luc Laservanne, tears in his eyes, answers him with a simple smile. “It is true that I managed to send a multitude of messages in just a few minutes”, rejoices the one who joined the show “The Voice” on February 27th.
“I managed to say that we can be happy and gay, happy and black, happy and overweight, happy and former homeless person”, he adds before confiding, in a burst of laughter: “It’s already been a hell of a CV ”.
This Friday, January 19, the Minister responsible for Gender Equality received in her ministry the artist Luc Laservanne, candidate for The Voice program and recently selected to participate in the “Battles” of the TV hook of the TF1 channel, under the colors of Marc Lavoine. The opportunity for her to show him her “admiration”. “You bring your stone to the building by showing your deepest vulnerability”, she confided to him at the end of their meeting. “You are magnificent and you are courageous”.
Originally from Cantal, this 30-year-old trombonist performed a beautiful cover of Germaine Sablon’s “Partisan song”. He also spoke of his homosexuality and confided that he had been kicked out of his mother’s home for being homosexual and lived on the streets for six years.
We were able to talk to him after his meeting. For The HuffPost, he looks back on the weeks that followed his appearance on the show and on the emotion that his testimony aroused.
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Three weeks after your performance in “The Voice”, how are you?
I’m fine. A lot has happened in a few weeks, it’s pretty crazy. I received more than 10,000 messages on Instagram following my appearance on the show: 50 years old who tell me they came out after hearing me, LGBT + young people abandoned by their families that I redirected to associations. I am proud to have reached so many people and I also wanted, with the help of my neighbor, to answer them one by one. I finished a few days ago.
You said that you lived on the streets after being kicked out of your mother’s house because of your homosexuality. Was it natural for you to confide in this way?
I would first like to say that at the start, I was not chosen for my story, but for my voice. It was later that I spoke about what had happened to me. Besides, I wondered a lot if I should say it or not (in production, editor’s note). I didn’t want to be selected out of pity or to be interested only in me in relation to this story. But I said to myself ‘too bad, I have to talk about it’.
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Why was this so important?
I wanted to raise awareness on these subjects and especially to prevent it from happening to other people. I wanted to show people that anyone can be kicked out of their parents’ house or end up on the streets one day. And if my post has generated positive things, that people have come out or assume their skin color more easily or that others have taken the necessary steps to get off the streets, that’s already a small victory. If it changes something that I’m talking about, I will do it everyday.
What’s the next step for The Voice for you?
I will soon be seen in the “Battles”. I can just tell you that there are going to be some crazy performances and that I am personally very happy with my performance.
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