There is always this long silence ... This moment which opens the field of possibilities, these throats which are knotted and which give everything as if it were a question of life and death. The blind auditions test rarely experienced such an intense moment as during the passage of young Anthony, broadcast this Saturday evening during the second evening of this eighth season of "The Voice" (TF1, 9:05 pm).
By choosing the poignant song "Casting" by Christophe Maé, taken from his fifth album "The Artist's Life", a lament of a man in distress, the singer hit the nail on the head. The sequence is overwhelming. Once is not custom, the program, aware of having captured a rare moment, one of the strongest of all seasons of "The Voice", unveiled the recovery on social networks earlier this week.
Bingo is a historic record. Never has a service recorded more than 6.5 million views before it was even broadcast on the TF1 antenna. And to the attention of… Christophe Maé in person.
#TheVoice - Never has a song been made so much for a blind audition by #TheVoice His name is Anthony, he is 24 years old, and he appeared in blind auditions for his sister.
Never before has a song been made so much for a blind audition for #TheVoice ✌️His name is Antony, he is 24 years old, and he appeared in blind auditions for his sister. present in front of the coaches, he chose to resume a particular title: Casting by CHRISTOPHE MAEThe Voice resumes on Saturday on TF1 & MYTF1
Gepostet von The Voice: the most beautiful voice am Mittwoch, 15. Januar 2020"Lots of friends called me and said look, something is going on with one of your songs, it's crazy, says the artist whose schedule is shared at the moment between the concerts of the Enfoirés and the preparation of its next tour to the four corners of France from March. It was 8 am when I listened to it and I was seized ... necessarily. I was moved to tears, especially when we discover the whole story and he plays with his sister's guitar. "
"This song is mine"
How not to be? After Maria last week, Anthony arrives with another singular destiny. And music is his point of salvation, in which he puts everything. This student who dreams of becoming a school teacher, sank for many years.
“I started six or seven years ago after a drama in my life, my older sister Emmanuelle had a road accident. I was thirteen when she died, the world fell apart, she was my example, confides the candidate spotted among the 20,000 cast voices after sharing a video on the Internet. I drifted when I got back to high school, I was doing nothing, it was a difficult time for me. One day my father told me to stop your nonsense , I took my sister's guitar and I started to music. And if I sing the song of Christophe Maé, it is because this song is mine, it is the cry of a young man in distress. "
And therein lies the strength of this lament that strikes the heart like an uppercut. She speaks to everyone, while she is inspired by the story of Christophe Maé. "This song tells my life, it is very personal to me. When I sing ladies and gentlemen listen to me, that's what I had in mind when I passed between the tables of the restaurant in Corsica when I started, it's my story. I've had this title in mind for years. And I'm even going to go further, this song has been in me for years, but if I take it out in my fifth album, it's also a way to introduce myself once again, a new beginning… This is what it is to be an artist , you always have to start from scratch in front of your audience. "
"I watch The Voice as a family"
And like the four coaches in the program broadcast this Saturday, Christophe Maé was particularly surprised to see how much the candidate took hold of his words. "This is what is beautiful when the song becomes universal, when we see how this candidate appropriates it, moves the musician. This is what is magic with the fate of the songs, you can never know the life they can have. And there, I had never felt that with a recovery. It's crazy, because these words have become his. I would like to cross paths with this boy one day. "
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Christophe Maé continues: “I watch The Voice with my family and I am always touched by these candidates who play their lives during these auditions and I put myself in the head of a candidate. This song is made for this program ”And as if to confirm that the planets were well aligned to create this suspended moment, the title, Christophe Maé's next single, will be broadcast on the radios from… Monday.