In the spring of Bourges, Tuesday evening, Mathieu Chedid shared the stage with Olivia Cadon, winner of a competition, this amateur singer totally unknown before, is the intruder of the news
An intruder in Mathieu Chédid’s concert named Olivia Cadon. This nurse from Châteauroux sang on the Bourges stage on Tuesday April 18 in the evening. For this inaugural concert of the 47th Printemps de Bourges festival, the singer M invited on stage this 32-year-old young woman, total stranger, total intruder. A young dark-haired woman with glasses, black shorts and a mustard top accompanied by M, himself on the yukulele. And so they sang” Navel”, in duet. But then who is this Olivia Cadon.
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How does she find herself singing like that on the Printemps de Bourges stage? Olivia Cadon is 32 years old. She was born in Châteauroux, high school in Châteauroux, studied nursing in Châteauroux before practicing her profession in general-purpose emergency medicine at the hospital in Châteauroux. Since she was a teenager, she loves M. She answered a contest that the artist launched since the beginning of his tour. Olivia Cadon took hours to record and edit a clip she sent. And a week ago: a phone call from the team to find the day Tuesday that she is not ready to forget.
” I did the soundchecks and I met M on stage at the end of the day. We were able to rehearse him, with his yukulele, in an intimate version, she explains.
“I admit I was stressed, but it was mostly adrenaline before I got on stage and then when I joined him and we started playing, it was gone!”
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“I didn’t feel that impressed by the public. They told me that they really appreciated my tone of voice“, resumes Olivia Cadon. Obviously you have to listen to this tone of voice which responds to the tone of Mr. Olivia Cadon is filmed on the telephone by her sisters who, moreover, we hear at one point in the crowd.
Obviously she had trouble closing her eyes. Wednesday morning, she found herself in the local press, neighbors, colleagues – even if many knew – saw her, she who nevertheless seems rather shy, it gives her ideas, perhaps even career desires . Oh it’s a big word but obviously it wakes things up in her.
“I’ve always liked to sing. I learned everything on my own in my corner from my room.”
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“Afterwards I had the opportunity, it was very exceptional, to do small concerts for village festivals, notes Olivia Cadon . It makes me want to make more music, to invest myself more and to try to share it all around me, especially my own music.” Olivia Cadon writes love songs, songs that tell her life that she composes with her guitar. And who knows there may be one soon that will tell this incredible evening and the title I think it is found everything: it’s crazy… i’ve been saying it all day it’s crazy“. It’s a good title, isn’t it? Olivia Cadon may remember this name, you will also inflate her Instagram account a little because for the moment, Wednesday April 20 in the evening, she only has 140 followers.
Le Printemps de Bourges continues until April 23, 2023