Sixteen years ago, Magalie Vaé won the fifth season of the star Academy. But the boulevard promised by the show on the music industry quickly turned into an impassable path. The 35-year-old singer was only entitled to two solo albums before falling back into oblivion. This failure was very difficult to take. But the birth of her daughter Elia, now 10, changed everything and made her see things differently: “To have an I love you every night before going to bed, to have an I love you when you get up every morning, it’s the boost of the day. It’s to tell you that the worst bullshit can fall on your face, she’s there, she supports you“.
Support, Magalie Vaé needed it at one time. Targeted by harsh criticism about his career on social networks, the interpreter of I fought mentioned one of them, particularly violent, on the set of The luxury moment 2.0 : “Some even said that maybe I had to die to sell as many albums as the other winnersshe said in front of Jordan de Luxe. At the time, it hurt me a lot. […] You better die to sell albums ’cause that’s the only way you can do it.”
If these words touched her a lot at the time, to the point of “weep“Sometimes, Magalie Vaé confessed that they no longer had an impact on her thanks to her daughter:”She changed my life, she made me skip some things that were important at the time and now aren’t.“Becoming a mother has turned Magalie Vaé’s priorities upside down. The opinions of each other on her physique or on her career in music no longer affect her, unless they are “constructive” and allow an exchange: “Since [ma fille] is here, […] I do not care. Before, I took time to answer. Now I don’t care!“Isn’t ignorance the greatest of contempt? Of course it is.