Frédéric Lopez likes confidences by the fire or on a bale of straw… This Sunday, February 19, he received in particular in the country house of his program of France 2the actress Gwendoline Hamon, headliner of the detective series Cassandra broadcast on France 3 but also the singer Amir, revealed on TF1 during the 3th season of The Voice where he reached the final.
Today, at 37, the multi-award-winning artist and happy father of two little boys, Mikhaël and Or, wanted to talk about his childhood and the disability he was born with. The one who “always wanted to sing”, as he tells the host, explains the beginnings of his vocation: “Initially, in many ways: I could get on a table and dance, do a sketch, imitate someone, and sing. I was looking for acclaim, I was looking for love. I needed the gaze of the other, I adapted to the gaze of the other.
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Unfortunately, he has had an ear that hasn’t worked since birth. An atrophied organ. “The hearing disability bothered me much less than the aesthetic disability because I was born with what is called microtia, which is an ear that did not develop, which remained at the stage of the embryo. I was asymmetrical until the day I had surgery so that the ear takes on a more classic, more normal shape”he explains simply before adding: “So as not to be laughed at, I always had long hair until I was sixteen, seventeen, the age when I had my surgery. […] It was perhaps the only sore point of the insensitive boy that I was. The singer then clarifies his words: “When I say insensitive, it’s because it was difficult to destabilize me, to make me cry or to annoy me, unless someone attacked my ear. Today, I wonder if it was not an excuse to fight from time to time. he concludes with a smile.
But to overcome this complex, the artist admits having had a powerful ally in the person of his mother: “Very early, she made me understand that there was no problem, that there was no handicap, that it was normal“, he says, then, on reflection adds: “I think she needed it too, because her eldest son who was born different, damaged, initially, she considered it was her fault. My birth was dramatic for her from this point of view.” Absolute support from his mother, to whom he acknowledges owing him his incredible confidence and stubbornness: “She made me understand that I was more capable than the others, if I wanted to and if I gave myself the means.” A great life lesson !
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“That was perhaps the only sore point of the insensitive boy that I was.”Born with a visible hearing impairment, @Amir_Off talks about the impact it had on his childhood.” A Sunday in the countryside “to (re) see on https://t.co/PaFR6EjDAN ▶ https://t.co/9d9EybUa5jpic.twitter.com/oC0Mzn71C2
– France 2 (@France2tv) February 19, 2023