Slimane is a fulfilled dad. The birth of his daughter Esmeralda did him a lot of good as a man. “It pushed me to think about how I live my job and to do things differently. For nearly seven years, I’ve chained album, tour, album, tour… There, I’m very happy to release a new album, but I’m not going to embark on a tour too quickly. I want to take care of my daughter, recharge my batteries and take the time to appreciate what is happening to me“, he confided to the daily newspaper 20 minutes.
This birth was also a test for the one who has just released an opus entitled Chronicles of a Cupid. “when you see your 1.6 kg baby fighting for two months to gain weight and trying to breathe, it calms you down. Basically, I can torture myself for not much. There, it allowed me to take a step back“, he claimed. From an artistic point of view, he also matured thanks to her and this fight.
Everything is better since she’s been here
“She changed everything: the man I am, the artist I am, what I want to leave… She changed my view of love. It’s thanks to her that the album exists: I realized that love wasn’t just ‘amorous’ love, that there were plenty of other forms of love that could totally feed when I had left them aside. The love I feel for my mother, my sisters, my daughter, my friends, deserved to find its golden letters in my life“, he explained with great sincerity.
Last September 3 on RFM, Vitaa’s great friend was already talking about the subject: “I thought I knew what it was to love. But I realized that this love is so immense, so unique… I thank her because the world no longer has the same taste or the same flavor. Everything is better since she’s been here“. He also added this : “I share many things with her. But I’m not super protective at all, I let her live her life.” As a reminder, the former winner of The Voicein parallel with his confessions about his daughter, always remains very discreet about his love life.