Sheila is in the spotlight this January 6 with the broadcast of a documentary on France 3 on the occasion of her sixty-year career. The singer confided in France inter this Friday to discuss her debut, and the support of her parents in a complicated time.
France 3 broadcasts this Friday, January 6 the documentary Sheila, all those lives in which the singer of The Magi celebrates 60 years of career. She comments on television archives from 1962 to today, personal films, she talks about her personal life, looks back on her career made up of ups and downs… Testimonials complete the set, including those of Michel Drucker, Jean- Marie Périer, François Cluzet, André Manoukian or even the American songwriter of spacer, Nile Rodgers! guest of It’s up to you this week, she had talked about her marriage to Ringo, “one of the most dramatic days” of his life. “I am a romantic person, I dreamed of having something pretty (…) And when you see my face, you understand very well that I am in despair. It was anything but what I wanted. I’m afraid of the crowd (…) it’s not a good memory“.
“I made a child’s dream come true”
If there had been so many people, it was because the producer Claude Carrere had given the time and place of the event on RTL, the same day. And Sheila to judge her producer who made her start when she was still a minor: “Humanly, he was toxic. He hurt me, it was he who made the rumor like i was a man“, she recalled. Annie Chancel, her real name, mentioned this January 6 for France inter her debut precisely, when she was only 16 years old, and that the majority was at the time at 21 years old. “I realized the dream of a child and my parents helped me with that and that’s what I’ll be grateful to them all my life“, she begins.
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“It was not a reasonable job for a girl of my age”
Before continuing:At the time in the 1960s, it was all the same to say to oneself, a school principal who came to see saying ‘Listen my daughter is going to stop school because she decides to become a singer’, my mother still sent to say that I was going to become a prostitute because it was not a reasonable job for a girl of my age, so you just have to put things in context and my parents were very avant-garde, to let me do it, to let me go in my desires, in my madness, and to believe in it“, concludes Sheila, always grateful.
