The dream turned into a real nightmare for Chris Keller. Former G-Squad vocalist, one of boy band the most famous in France in the 90s, he confided, Saturday May 7, 2022, on the set of TPMP People, about his financial troubles. While his fortune was estimated at several million francs, he lost everything. “I haveI wanted to invest in a recording studio. And I completely screwed up. It didn’t work at all”he confessed to journalist Matthieu Delormeau.
“I am a passionate investor. I have no return on investment at all in what I undertake in my life. When I buy, it’s only passion. I am a very bad manager” he continued.
A very bad manager
Resigned to this more than critical situation, he admits having thought about working for a major DIY store. He finally managed to find a new project, still in music. “At the last moment, someone called me: ‘Are you interested in being in a band?’ I got into private parties, weddings, bar mitzvahs” he said on the show. What to save him.
For those who don’t remember or who weren’t born yet, G-Squad marked an entire generation. Of No girl in the worldPassing by Touched in the heart up to the inevitable tube crazy about you, the group with a very romantic style has been a real success. In particular, he took advantage of the overflowing interest of the whole world for the boy band, a brand new phenomenon at the time. Unfortunately for the band, like all fads, this quickly fell into oblivion. Some former members of these boy band, including Chris Keller, attempted a comeback in 2015, with the creation of the Génération Boys Band. The objective being to play on the effect of nostalgia. But the success did not live up to expectations.