Happy, she is today. However, when Mentissa wins The Voice Kids in Belgium in 2014, she can’t imagine for a single second the complicated period she will have to face… Like all artists, Vianney’s protege (she was a finalist for season 10 in the adult version in France: editor’s note) thought that her victory was going to open all the doors to her but she quickly realized that “after” The Voice was an unnamed galley. At the microphone of RTL this Wednesday, February 1, the artist, now 23, spoke about this difficult period.
“I know what it’s like after. You win you’re on top you say to yourself ‘come on, let’s go great career’ and in fact not”, she confides, still touched by the galleys of the past. Indeed, even after her victory, Mentissa is never contacted by record companies and others: “There’s nothing at all, nothing happens, nobody calls you, you don’t know why and so you say to yourself ‘the problem is me’ especially at 14 years old”. The young artist also regrets not having been accompanied during this period: “You’re a child and nobody explains to you that everything is fine and just that in music it’s not easy”.
Ill-being and abandonment after The Voice for Mentissa
By evoking his “after” The Voice, Vianney’s protege especially wanted to warn future candidates, especially the youngest. “It’s not because you win a show that you will have a career”, she warns before continuing: “You don’t have an explanation and your mum doesn’t know either because she’s not in the music business and then you say to yourself ‘I’m very bad actually'”. Mentissa recognizes it, this difficult moment traumatized her all the more since she was only 14 years old when notoriety turned her life upside down.
In addition to feeling neglected, the ex-candidate of The Voice also struggled with her image as she revealed on Daily this Monday, January 30. Questioned by Yann Barthès on the question, Mentissa pointed to the social networks where “we finally have the impression that we have to look like a standard guy physically” and who played a lot on his discomfort, physically speaking.
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