“I was in the hospital for a while”: Oli (The Voice) talks about the illness he suffered from as a child

Coach with his brother Bigflo in season 12 of The Voicewhose third episode of the battles will be broadcast this Saturday April 29, 2023 on TF1, Oli spoke about his health problems when he was little.

His fate could have been very different. Flagship faces of French rap, Bigflo and Oli are currently in concert throughout France with The Grand Tour. The two brothers are also coaches in the twelfth edition of The Voice broadcast on TF1 and whose decisive stage of the battles ends this Saturday, April 29, 2023. If everything succeeds, the duo from Toulouse has come a long way … and in particular Oli. Suffered from lung disease as a childBigflo’s little brother, now 27, returned to a painful episode some time ago in an interview on YouTube.

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“I had one lung smaller than the other”Oli revealed at the time. “There was one who was struggling. I was in the hospital for a while”, he said. When the journalist asked him what this disease was, the rapper did not know what to answer: “I never really knew in the end what I had, we never really talked about it”, admitted the 27-year-old artist. A chapter in the life of Olivio which apparently inspired the two brothers since they had spoken about it in their title The real life released in 2017: “At three years old with pipes in my nose, I said no to the cemetery / the reaper said to me: I’ll give you a chance if you break everything with your brother”. A difficult test for Oli but from which he draws his strength today.

Bigflo talks about his brother’s illness: “I remember seeing him as a child with pipes”

During the interview, Bigflo, whose real name is Florian, also took the opportunity to reveal a funny anecdote about his little brother: “I remember seeing him as a child with pipes and this guy he chose among all the instruments in the world that there was, the trumpet! That is to say the one where you really have to blow everything “, he joked. Today, Oli is in very good health, as he stated in the interview: “It’s alright, I play trumpet, I rap”. Reassuring news that delights fans of the duo.