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Zaz – Le nouvel album “Isa”
Zaz: “Isa”: Her new album almost didn’t come out!
For the release of her new album, the singer reconsiders her absence.
After three years of silence , Zaz, or rather Isa, is back . Because the 41-year-old singer returns with a fifth album that bears her name, finally her diminutive “Isa”. The one called Isabelle Geffroy in the city explains in the columns of Gala having chosen Zaz “as an artist’s name to protect me, to dissociate who I am from my public figure. A way, too, to protect myself from possible attacks . ” A kind of alter-ego which was very useful to him when success fell on him, as unexpected as it was triumphant, upon the release of his first single “Je J’aime” in 2010. Not enough perhaps, since the artist , known internationally, does not take the pressure well:Three years ago, I almost wanted Zaz to die “she confesses.
The musician has thus known, like many others before her, an episode of depression and exhaustion linked to celebrity : ” I was tired, exhausted. I had to go on tour again and, for the first time, I was says: ‘No, it is not possible!’ “. Close to burn-out, Zaz offered to rest after a nice meeting : ” I wanted to build with him, take time”. Calm and in love, the artist was ready to get back to work when “confinement arrived “! A shame that she finally experienced as an unexpected opportunity: ” the experience was ultimately very beneficial”.
Time, calm and hindsight: the best recipe for coming back to the forefront with a project that Zaz herself describes on her Twitter account as ” very intimate, gentle, nuanced and benevolent which I hope will help you. will accompany in your moments of life. ” In addition to the first single “Imagine” unveiled in September, there is a great collaboration with Till Lindemann of the group Rammstein.
Pauline Croze’s youthful looks
Thought, composed and recorded between confinements and restrictions linked to the health crisis, the new album “Après les heures grises”, by Pauline Croze, was released on October 8. The singer, on tour throughout France, returns to the music that punctuated her childhood and adolescence.
Where did you spend your childhood and in what environment?
I grew up in a pavilion in Villemomble, in the Parisian suburbs. Before becoming a psychoanalyst, my mother worked in an Italian tourist office (she had dual nationality). My father started his career as a professor of physics, then a consultant at the Ministry of National Education, where he tested the brand new CD-ROMs of educational software. Fan of cinema, he had a large film library in which we could draw what interested us. I was a pretty lonely child. I had very few friends and enjoyed drawing a lot. Rather very good student at the beginning of my schooling, I let myself go over the years. I still managed to get my baccalaureate by doing the bare minimum.
Did your parents listen to music?
At home there was music all day, especially on weekends. The style varied from room to room. In the living room, my parents liked the opera, Léo Ferré, but also Julien Clerc for my mother and Boby Lapointe for my father. My two older sisters had very opposite tastes. In their rooms, one loved to listen to French variety (Patrick Bruel and Mylène Farmer), the other rock with very sharp choices (Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa). I loved to navigate from one room to another, open to discovering all these different styles of music. Added to this was the radio, which I listened to every night to fall asleep and which gave me the possibility of always hearing new artists.
What’s your favorite childhood song?
The favorite song of my childhood is that of the TV movie Sandokan, which played in the Club Dorothée, interpreted by Joël Prevost. She had a very dynamic and elated side. We felt we were dealing with a hero. I would put the 45 on my channel and walk around the house singing it very enthusiastically. Performing a song for a child is a special exercise, and Joël Prévost did it really well. As a teenager, I remember listening to Strange Fruit, by Billie Holiday, and Stairway to Heaven, by Led Zeppelin, on repeat, whose vocal and melodic virtuosity fascinated me.
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