At 52, on the occasion of the launch of his LOVE Tour which will pass at Paris la Défense arena on March 9, Calogero takes stock in a long interview given to JDD, on newsstands this Sunday, February 11. When the journalist Ludovic Perrin asks him if music has “save the life”while he was in “school failure”the singer of I play music responds “Yes”. “School, it started off badly for me“explains the one who never forgot “a pair of slaps of a slightly retrograde teacher because'[il n’avait] didn’t immediately know how to dot the i’s”. “I was lucky to have music and good friends to pull me up while I started doing bad things“tells without giving further details the one who is still in contact with his childhood friends.
This disastrous start had consequences on the way he approached things for the rest of his life. “My bad experience in class inoculated me against professorial authority : I learned everything on my own from an Ennio Morricone record”reveals Calogero in the JDD. However, the artist says to himself “ready” has to invest “in training teachers to teach music to kids at school”. His way of trying to improve things and ensure that no one has to experience what he experienced.
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How music saved Calogero?
If he was not good at school, Calogero was excellent at music: which he showed on stage to his little friends from the age of 9 during a snow class. “Three years later, while I was in a family holiday village with my parents in Seignosse, my current artistic director (Éric Lopez) pushed me onto a small stage”remembers the father of four children. “My brother Gioacchino accompanied me on the keyboard and I felt like electricity”analyzes Calogero. “That day, I who was failing at schoolI felt like I had found a path“, he adds. A path along which he always continued to move forward, without ever deviating.
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