Twenty years since she won the star Academy. Nolwenn Leroy is back with a brand new album, The Run. The opportunity to look back on two decades of career, his difficult choices and those who built his image. Too often a victim of sexism, the young artist she was inherited an image of “diva”, as she confided during an interview with Paris Match, in the Thursday, November 4, 2021 issue.
“The chick who was giggling in front of the cameras, it wasn’t me! I was terribly first degree”, she believes. Far from complying with all the requirements of promotions, Nolwenn Leroy still remembers this magazine’s proposal. Interview for a lightly dressed shoot. “I refused and it was normal, but a girl who asserts herself is always considered boring! I was 19, I couldn’t start my journey by doing anything … “, she recalls.
All these experiences and the over-media coverage forged the artist she is today. Nolwenn Leroy has always preferred to work as a family, with her mother as the sole advisor. This image of “a little cold winner of the Star Ac ‘”finally faded. “It’s been almost ten years since, in people’s minds, I was the winner of the Star Ac ‘. I never thought I could do anything stronger than that. My Celtic record swept everything away (…) No artist would release such a record telling himself that he is going to sell millions of them“, she recalls.
Today, Nolwenn Leroy tries to remain discreet about her private life, when it comes to her husband and their son Marin (4 years old). “This is also why my report to the press is complicated: I do not have much to give sulfurous“, she admits.
Find the full interview with Nolwenn Leroy in the latest issue of Paris Match.