"He was your old lover, you were crazy about him."
This is how Léa Salamé launched her interview with Clara Luciani, which she received on the set of “Quelle Époque”, this Saturday, February 18, on France 2. In promotion of her documentary entitled Ça commence comme ça, the
singer
at success, to whom we owe the albums
Sainte-Victoire
and
Cœur
, does not deny that she owes a lot to her breakups as sources of inspiration for her songs.
"I didn't know that your first album was that 'asshole Charles'," commented the journalist.
And Clara Luciani to reply with a cheerful "Let's kiss!".
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After a brief history of the relationship between the interpreter of
La Grenade
and her former partner, Léa Salamé continues: “He dumped her by text message while they were living together.
She falls into a real depression.
Her mother even says she was a zombie for a year.
An evil that will ultimately come for a good.
In the process, Clara Luciani even admitted that she had sent a copy of her first EP inspired by this period to the interested party to thank him.
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“At the time, when it happened to me, I said to myself that it was totally exclusive.
I had to tell everyone how crazy it is, and that's what finally gave me the legitimacy to write songs, in French, "she added.
What the musician André Manoukian, also invited on the set, philosophized on the creative force of heartbreak.
"It's the most beautiful engine there is for writing songs," he said.
Beethoven wrote the
Moonlight Sonata
because he was dumped.
A real blessing.
