Benjamin Biolay is in pole position. The singer crooner with a voice as sweet as the sound of the trombone he loves so much has just released his 9th album entitled Grand Prix, a reference to the 1966 eponymous film by John Frankenheimer with Françoise Hardy and Yves Montand. On this occasion, the ex-companion of Chiara Mastroianni, with whom he is still very close, confides unvarnished to our colleagues from Inrockuptibles, on newsstands June 17, 2020. In this long interview, Benjamin Biolay answers questions with his usual candor.
No criticisms of the plagiarism of singer Grégoire or new updates with Laurent Ruquier, the ex-juror of the New star admit that he has settled down. "Yes i have aged"he confides."I wanted to be nice with the media who came to see me and make the right customer. Then I realized how much it diverts attention from what is really important to me."This has not stopped him from having a recent chat with Nicolas Bedos via social networks."He wrote that the singers who posted live videos during the confinement did this to scrape the likes. I replied that we did not have quite the same ambitions. He got on his big horses but it fell back pretty quickly. "he says.
"Very quickly, I understood that it was serious"
A confinement because of the coronavirus which will have deeply affected him. Benjamin Biolay talks about these people he knows well affected by this pandemic. "I lost people, some of whom I was very close to, some who were my age. Very quickly, I understood that it was serious. So i was worried about everyone"he explains modestly. Benjamin Biolay will say no more. Actors, athletes, politicians … many people have been affected by covid-19. In France, there are almost 30,000 victims of this disease, a second wave of which has just hit China …
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