It all started very early for Sheila
. At the age of sixteen, the artist recorded her first single. From there, things come together for the queen of yé-yé
. “Beyond being brutal, I didn’t see anything. My parents signed a contract. I was in the studio, recording my first record. I think eight or ten days later I was doing TV. It happened so quickly (…) I learned on the job. The day I realized things was that I lost my freedom. It means a loss of freedom for me. It’s not synonymous with success (…) it’s mainly the fact that I could no longer go out on the street”she remembered during her appearance on RTL this Tuesday, October 10, 2023.
Sixty years later, success is still there and Sheila
decided to thank his fans by going to meet them as part of a special tour. Grateful to still be able to make a living from her passion, the 78 year old artist
made revelations about his state of health and his musical future. “I am privileged because I already have good health. I believe we can only do this if we have the energy to do it. I was born under both a complicated and wonderful star. Above all, I have a passion for what I do. As long as I could do it, I would continue to do it. I don’t see the time passing. I’m not even sixty years old in my head, obviously that helps.” she promised.
A necessary break
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But there is still a period when Sheila
decided to give up everything. During her concert at the Olympia in Paris in 1989, the singer sang “I came to tell you I’m going” in order to make the following announcement to its audience: “There are two difficult things to say: I love you and I’m leaving”.
From there, she retired for nine years. Moreover, Sheila finally revealed the reasons for this absence: “It was to find myself. I had arrived at a point in my life where I was lost. I can’t do things by halves. I can’t do things if there isn’t “eye. If there isn’t the heart, if there isn’t the emotion. A well-regulated machine bothers me. So I was first looking for myself, finding myself. Do writing, sculpture. Learn solitude (…) You discover that fame is nothing and as long as you are not a bargaining chip, you lose all your friends. That’s good to know it. I stopped and I understood. It’s good, we learn, we grow.”
As the saying goes, sometimes you have to “know how to leave in order to come back better”. Sheila understood this well.
J.G.