Portrait of the week in 50’Inside, Zazie returned to her childhood, spent without television as her parents wanted, and her very late discovery of Claude François.
Back to basics Zazie ! His new album Wing-P is in stores and available on all legal download platforms. An eleventh opus always very personal in which she evokes without embarrassment her daily hassles. First single from the disc, let it shine, describes in particular her neighborhood problems, having pushed her to move a few months ago. Ahead of a tour expected for next summer, the singer-songwriter will resume her role as coach in The Voice alongside Amel Bent, Vianney as well as Bigflo and Oli. Asked about her ability to unearth talent, the musician confided in her great sensitivity and several childhood memories.
His “High Emotional Potential“ at school
Received in 50’Inside by her friend Nikos Aliagas, the 58-year-old artist first said that, when she was younger, she didn’t think her perceptual abilities were an asset at all: “I think that if it existed at the time, I would have been diagnosed hyperactive HPE ie High Emotional Potential and a whole bunch of stuff like that“, admits Zazie, acknowledging that her faculties were very developed.”I was two years ahead, which I didn’t perceive either, but at school, it’s huge“, she believes. And to occupy herself, no television set on the horizon, only books and music. A distance with other kids of her age which kept her away from the latest trends of the moment, including a certain Claude Francois…
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“To pretend“to be accepted by others
Zazie remembers this period very well: “We didn’t have TV at home, by choice of my parents, I found after that it was a very good choice. But we row, we pretend to know, ‘ah yes you saw Cloclo, ah yeah great’“, admits the one who naively thought that the music lover born in Egypt lent his name to a brand of household products. “I thought it was a washing powder anyway, it’s not reasonable ‘Cloclo washes whiter’ what. Then I learn that it was a singer, that I didn’t know at all“, explains the Parisian, laughing at this “quirky life, limit with a feeling of shame of not quite belonging to this environment“.
