On September 16, 2022, Christophe Willem returned to the music scene with his new album “Panorama”. A new project, with the air of “bet” for the winner of season 4 of “The New Star”. Indeed, on September 28, 2017, the one nicknamed “The Turtle” will experience a huge failure with his project. “Rio”. After only 40,000 sales, the 39-year-old artist will question everything. Starting with his own career. A difficult period that he decided to evoke in the columns of the Parisian September 15, 2022.
With our colleagues, Christophe Willem explains: “I experienced this failure as a rejection of what I was. I felt like the ugly duckling”, he told our colleagues. “I found myself in my college yard, stigmatized, singled out”. Demons from the past that have long played on his mind. “And I wondered if it was worth making yet another album… I even considered not coming back to Les Enfoirés. I lived with the shame of being a finished artist”he admitted.
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Christophe Willem affected, but still the spirit of a warrior
In the end, the winner of season 4 of “The New Star” worked for a long time. And was able to offer a new project to his community. “Panorama” was born on September 16, 2022 and is a great success. But perhaps the artist’s fans can thank Amel Bent for this new album.
Indeed, invited with Christophe Willem in the show “Like at home” on RFM this Wednesday, April 5, the interpreter of “My philosophy” made some revelations. “Christophe is one of the artists who have been there for some time, almost 20 years I think. And it’s not easy over time, we know that, and we can easily lose hope. One day he said to me ‘I’ I have a plan B, I’m going to open a restaurant in São Paulo'”she recalled.
Something to surprise the set of the show. “Yes Yes !”then assures Christophe Willem hilarious before Amel Bent takes the floor again: “I swear. And I’m like, ‘Did you hear yourself sing?’ For me, he is one of the most beautiful voices in France of his generation. For me, it was violent to think that he no longer wanted to sing, to stop.”.
Amel Bent did everything to keep it going
“But he was… he didn’t say it desperately or anything. It was thoughtful, ‘that’s it, I’m going to move on.’ she confided, still moved by evoking this difficult period for her friend. But for the coach of “The Voice”it was inconceivable that “La Tortue” would end his career.
“I said to myself that it was not possible. I cannot let a friend think for a second that there could be a plan B with such talent”, she continues, lifted when she thinks back to the words of the artist. For the 37-year-old singer, there was “no plan B possible, it will be plan A” and she fought to make it happen. Fans of Christophe Willem can therefore greatly thank her.
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