In August 2019 came out Versus, an album of duets with Vitaa and Slimane. Carried by the tubes Before you, Not beautiful or I give it to you, it made an unexpected hit – it was reissued in 2020 – with a total of 850,000 copies sold! As 2022 marks the end of their collaboration, with final tour dates, they have made some secrets.
Asked by The voice of the North , Vitaa – who was recently forced to stay at home on oxygen due to Covid – and Slimane reacted to their impending artistic separation. “It’s the end of a lot of things, but it’s also the beginning of other things together, we are in studios together to help each other on our respective albums, and then there is this tour which will last until end of 2022 [elle pourrait être perturbée par la nouvelle grossesse de la chanteuse, NDLR]. We always knew there would be an end“, says the singer of 32 years.”We don’t have the feeling of separating, we stay in the studio together, we write, etc. People will have to get used to the idea of Vitaa without Slimane and vice versa“, adds her colleague.
This success, the duo – rewarded with a victory of Music in the category best original song for It comes and goes – savor it to the end since, by the way, they weren’t very excited about the project! “We live it like amazed children, because we know how rare such success is in our profession. To think that we almost missed it … At the start, we weren’t very keen on a duo album, for agenda issues“, confided Vitaa to the newspaper The Parisian, in January 2020.
A sign that it may be time to take another step, Slimane indicated on his Instagram account that he needed a break. The singer discovered by the general public thanks to the show The voice on TF1 has also removed all the publications from its page, as if to start from zero … No doubt that its fans and those who discovered it thanks to its collaboration with Vitaa will be there for the future.