Sheila
can be proud of her journey. Put in the spotlight when she was only sixteenthe singer
He now has a sixty-year career under his belt. To celebrate, the star has started a tour and will release a double CD called “Sheila, Live in Brussels”.
Asked how she managed to persist over time despite almost a decade of hiatus, Sheila
told : “I am privileged because I already have good health. I believe that we can do this only if we have the energy to do it. I was born both under a complicated star, at the same time wonderful. Above all, I have a passion for what I do. As long as I could do it, I would continue to do it. I don’t see the time passing. I’m not even sixty years old in my head, obviously that help”.
A strength to survive
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Besides the hard blows from his friends, Sheila
experienced a tragedy that transformed her forever: the death of his son
. Indeed, Ludovic Chancel died of an overdose in 2017 caused by the massive absorption of cocaine and benzodiazepine. A few months after her disappearance, the 78-year-old singer confided to Paris Match: “He is the most beautiful thing I have had in my life […]. But I’m still a little angry with him for leaving me all alone.”
During his interview with RTL, Sheila revealed how she managed to get back on track despite this loss from which she will never recover. “You know, I went to the other side and came back. I think any drama or any experience or anything that you face in life. Those are things that make you grow. At the time of disappearance of my son, I can tell you that I did not reason like that. First of all for me he is there. But I know that I had something to learn from that, that his path is not the mine“, she declared at first.
More peaceful, Sheila added: “We are obliged to respect everyone’s life and everyone’s choice. I’m not saying that I don’t suffer from it. That would be completely lying. I had to endure that. Either you fall or you stay standing, me I decided not to fall in relation to my family, my friends, my parents.” “An artist must take responsibility for what he must do (…) I did it for him and for my parents. You have to sing, you have to continue”, she concluded. A strength that echoes other parents in the same sad situation.
J.G.