The two friends made themselves known to the general public by participating, as a duo, in the tele-hook show “The Voice” on TF1, in 2014. Coached by Mika, the boys were knocked out in the quarter-finals but did not have not lost everything… far from it! They already have their fans and their first album “Fréro Delavega”, already written and composed before their participation, is a hit with 500,000 sales. From the show, moreover, they have excellent memories, as they confided to the microphone of Karine Ferri on RFM: “The Voice was really a springboard to make the album known. We had the opportunity to speak in front of millions of people, in extraordinary conditions. We wanted to reach as many people as possible. We thought that if we made at least one appearance, it would already be great!”
Propelled, they then released “Des ombres et des lumière” in 2015, which sold 300,000 copies. However, after more than three years of success, tours and friendship, the duo broke up. Much to the surprise of the fans! A decision taken by Florian Delavega as he explains in the podcast “Virage”, which is interested in life changes, under the leadership of Pauline Maria. Today, five years after the group’s dissolution, Florian lets go: “We were starting to feel the Fréro Delavega phenomenon, we were doing our two Olympias and there I started to have tension. It took me almost six months to come to terms with how I felt.”
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“There was a tension… it was very complicated”
The artist tried to repress his anxieties: “I felt something in me, I felt a malaise, something that was tormenting me except that I was sweeping it away. I didn’t have a relationship with me then like I have today.” As a bonus, his complicity with Jérémy was only a shadow: “There was a tension, it was not the period when we were most connected with Jérémy. It was very complicated.” he explained.
It was during a stay in Peru that he decided to free himself and talk to his sidekick: “The day I told him ‘Jérémy, I think we’re going to stop, I actually want more, I need to stop’, there was a pain I think that was obvious to him. And then afterwards, there was a kind of great liberation when we accepted that and told our whole team. Afterwards, it was a total kiff, we had a year of farewell tour basically and it was the best tour of my life”, he confides to the interviewer. On the other hand, on the private side, the decision struggled to be accepted: “The family, they were the first to be disappointed because they too were living a crazy story. Our families also united, they saw each other, there was always very friendly stuff that happened between our two families, it was great. It’s true that the fact that I quit was ‘oh why is he breaking the mood, we were having fun there’”. Florian Delavega does not regret this decision, quite the contrary… he even claims to have remained on very good terms with his ex-duettist.
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