“Forgive me if I preferred to destroy myself, even if it meant risking damaging my empire,” he sings in this track, available on YouTube and streaming platforms since Friday.
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A big comeback in music. Shot at the end of April in the Landes after a marital dispute under the influence of alcohol and cocaine, the singer Kendji Girac released, Thursday August 29, at midnight, a new song dedicated to his audience, If onlywhich he went to get “deep in his heart”.
The song is available on YouTube and streaming platforms. “On stage I left my smile, my smile, my smile. Captain abandoned, without a ship, without a ship, without a ship”he sings. “Forgive me if I preferred to destroy myself, even if it meant risking damaging my empire.”
The song was written by Vianney and composed by Renaud Rebillaud and Vianney, it is stated on his Instagram account. “I am very moved to announce that I am finally back, I missed it”, Kendji Girac specifies in a video posted Thursday, on the same network. “I took the time to work on a beautiful song, to search deep in my heart, to want to say what I wanted to say, from the depths of my soul.”
“I made this song just for you, it’s the first time I’ve addressed you informally in this song because you’re my audience who’ve been there for ten years. I had to make a song just for you.”he confides.
Kendji Girac was hospitalized on April 22 near Bordeaux for a serious gunshot wound to the chest. According to tests, he was heavily intoxicated, with more than 2.5 grams per liter of blood, and had consumed cocaine during an evening and a night of partying, during which he had notably gone to the casino with friends.
The 27-year-old singer had initially claimed that he had wanted “fake suicide”“after a marital dispute before changing his version of events. The procedure was closed without further action. “If only I had known how to tell you, without having to write it on my skin.”sings Kendji, in what could sound like a reference to his injury. “From our years, I have kept your smile (…) the one that warmed me in the worst”he confides again.