Strong woman on stage, Sheila shared in the podcast Old branch how music kept her from sinking when she had to face the death of her son.
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“Sheila helps me, if I’m alone I fall apart.” On June 29, in the podcast Old branch, Annie Chancel, better known as Sheila, took precedence over her artistic double to an open heart interview. The singer spoke about her career, but also her personal journey and his relationship to this character that she created herself, which has often been, by her own admission, a “refuge”. “Sheila is not crying. I found out that in reality, I took refuge behind the singer that I am“, she explained.
Tribute in music
Faced with one of the worst trials of his life, the tragic death of her son, Ludovic Chancel, it is again this facet of his personality that helped her not to sink. “Losing a child is not in the order of things. The fact of singing, of having this notoriety, this name, it is important for me, because I’m hanging on to that“, she continued, before bringing up the song Amble Horse from his latest album, From elsewhere, dedicated to Ludovic. For the singer, when composing this new opus, “it was impossible to evoke [sa] life without talking about him “. However, Sheila quickly felt that a simple song would not be enough to express all her emotions.
“Pure poetry”
She then contacted Christian Siméon, a playwright, to ask him to write for her. “We laughed, we cried, I told him, I showed him pictures. I needed it to be like I was writing. I wrote seven books, but in the songs, I do not feel well, I have doubts “, she confided. From this collaboration was born “a text beyond beauty, pure poetry”. At the same time, for the music, the artist called on Philippe Rombi, composer for the cinema. “The two things together, it’s beyond the song, it’s pure emotion“, she estimated.
A message for “every mom”
The recording, on the other hand, was much more complex, and Sheila had to go through it several times to achieve her ends. But in the end, the artist is happy with the result, with this song which allows him to convey a message which goes beyond its own history : “Amble horse is very personal to me, but I think every mom that has been through what I have been through, the unbearable, the improbable and the unlivable, will be found. “
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