This dates back to 2003. While she was a student at Paris-Dauphine University, Sofia Essaidi took part in the 3rd season of “Star Academy”. Studious pupil, this native of Casablanca connects the performances during the prime and climbs to the semi-finals while the viewers decide to crown Elodie Frégé.
Invited this October 30 in “A Sunday in the countryside”, the new program of Frédéric Lopez on France 2, the 38-year-old artist returned to the after Star Ac, an artistic moment which was difficult to negotiate. However, she had the honor of joining the musical of Kamel Ouali, the dance teacher met at Star Ac, who offered her the main role in the musical “Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt”.
But it was after this superb show, when she tried to make a solo career, that things got complicated. “It means making songs that are rather accessible, easy, formatted. And I have a hard time at that moment, I’m lost. I manage, I can say it, really, to feel a depression inside. It is really the depression of the artist misunderstood, not heard”, she confided to Frédéric Lopez.
This malaise leads him into a depression: “I’m in pain, I’m crying at home but on the other hand, in front of people, I have a smile and that’s exhausting. I really fell into a painful depression. Until the moment I said, ‘it’ It’s no longer possible to live like that’. I can’t live a whole life like that, stressing myself out, putting pressure on myself to be the best. (…) I could cry for a week because I didn’t hadn’t succeeded in a casting that I wanted and then be in an ultimate joy… I had to find a happy medium, a balance to support the joys and the disappointments and to be less dependent on the outside“, she confided. A poignant witness.