It’s been a little over 30 years now that Marianne James has made a name for herself in the musical world, first on stage as a singer and then on TV. New star, Wonders and France has an unbelievable talent… Marianne James loves to highlight new artists today. Nudges that she probably would have liked to have had when she was younger, she who lived a few years of hardship.
In the new magazine of TV 7 days published on November 1, 2021, she confided in his beginnings … in the street ! Indeed, from 15 to 23 years old with her sister Pascale Gandolfi, Marianne James produced in the metro, on the Beaubourg esplanade or in the streets of Avignon. A much more complicated exercise than singing in front of thousands of people on a real stage. “The hardest part is the street, without comparison. Between the people who don’t listen, the unhappy traders, the cops who sometimes intervene, and the other groups who want the place …“, she listed. Still, Marianne James does not regret having had to go through this.”If you know how to get by, you’ve won it all“, she philosophized.
This is not the first time that the outspoken artist has spoken about his somewhat precarious past. In 2016 already, she told for Humanity : “I really sang lyrical in the street, like a sort of diva of the poor or a diva of the sidewalks. I did jazz, classical, musicology college, street theater …Marianne James, who managed to carve out her place in show business despite criticism over her weight, finally managed to get off the streets in 1989 when she was chosen for play Maria Ulrika Von Glott, a German singer and nutty in her show The Ultima Recital. A show which subsequently won the Molière for best musical performance.