sanaa is one of the revelations of the 2022 season of The Voice Kids on TF1 which ended this Saturday, October 8 with the victory of Reynaud, 11 years old. The 14-year-old girl had blown away the jury composed of LouaneKendji Girac, Patrick Fiori and Julien Doré through his interpretation of Do not judge me by Camille Lellouche during the first prime on August 20th. A title that she did not choose at random because the young girl has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome from a bone disease that affected her at birth and was diagnosed when she was 8 years old. The lyrics of the song echo his experience: “I don’t want to be judged on my illness, but to be judged on my talent and to see who I really am.”
This Sunday, October 8, Sanaa was the guest of the portrait of the week of seven to eight on TF1. She even hummed a little excerpt from Camille Lellouche’s song. “This song by Camille Lellouche has a big place for me today because it’s the story of a person who says, ‘But, you don’t see what I have so why are you actually judging You don’t really know me.’ And in my life I’ve been criticized and judged a lot for my illness because it’s invisible. When people saw me, they said, ‘No, she’s not sick. It’s comedy, it’s not possible! She does this to miss class, it’s not that bad…'”she said facing Audrey Crespo-Mara.
I have to learn to live with it
The young girl also revealed the difficulties she encounters on a daily basis: “Writing is very painful for me. It hurts my hand a lot. I can’t do sports except swimming. Sports require support and I can easily hurt myself,” she expressed. And to add: “I don’t have a lot of balance, so I have to be careful when I walk, on the road, for example, if there are dips, I won’t necessarily see the dip. I fall, I sprain my ankle, it’s repeated fractures. I often had to go to the hospital, have casts, splints for just about every part of the body at home.
Aware that her illness will accompany her for a long time, Sanaa prefers to use it as a strength: “My difference is my strength because this disease will be there all the time, all my life, she let know. I can’t see it as a weakness. I have to learn to live with it. And even if there are negative sides, I said to myself that, precisely, it is part of me. I have to accept it. Might as well make it a strength rather than live it badly.”
Despite her illness, Sanaa dreams of living from her passion for music. “My childhood dream is to be able to perform and sing.” However, the idea of being a superstar does not cross his mind: “It’s not what matters to me the most, I don’t necessarily want to become a star. I just want to sing”she insisted.