For Ben Mazué, success is at the rendezvous! Long remained in the shadows, the singer and author finally finds a place in the light to match his talent, he who often signs moving texts and melodies. His last album, Heavenis a small musical pearl, in which he alternates between spoken and sung parts.
But if his texts are often gripping, it is because they have been inspired by a difficult part of his life in recent years: his divorce with the mother of his two children, Milan and Axel, 10 and 8 years old. After more than ten years of living together, the singer and his companion have decided to separate after trying the last chance solution: a family departure to Reunion.
“In the end, we also took our demons in our luggage and they grew once there“, he confides this week in Paris Match. The singer and his wife then resigned themselves to separating, a break which gave the magnificent album which made its success. “Breakup is not always a failure“, he said recently to the Belgian newspaper The eveningit will have at least allowed him to put evils to music for a superb record.
Also author for his friend Grand Corps Malade, for Jérémy Frérot or for the singer Apple, he still managed not to keep bad memories of Reunion Island, even if he had a difficult time there. “I believe there are no particular reasons to love a placehe explains to Paris Match. I love paris. I can see what’s wrong with this town, but that doesn’t stop me from loving it. I feel the same for Reunion.“
If all goes well, today, in the career of Ben Mazué, the singer must therefore strive to rebuild a love life and ask himself rather existential questions. “I’m 41 years old. For many people, the midlife crisis is waking up one morning realizing that we’ve done everything we’ve been expected to do for years and it’s time for a change. Me, I feel like my midlife crisis lasted my whole life!“, he concludes.