Key artist of the French music scene, Calogero was the guest of Nikos Aliagas in the show 50 ‘Inside Saturday April 24, 2021 on TF1. Present in the program as part of the promotion of his 8th album, called Downtown, the one who was convicted of plagiarism returned to five dates that marked his career as a musician. Among these, the singer recalled a concert dating from 2018, during which he had winked at his parents on the mythical stage of theOlympia. At the time, Marie Bastide’s husband, who released his first album, told the audience in the room their story.
Italian immigrants who fled the war, the singer’s parents had the hope of rebuilding themselves in Echirolles, near Grenoble, where the singer of the tube Weightless grew up. “They have become more French than some French people,” launched Calogero in 2018. “It’s funny because they would have liked to become French, and they still have their residence permit,” he explained to Nikos Aliagas after seeing these images again. “They came to France because there was an elder uncle who told them: ‘you have to come and work in France because there, people, their cupboards are full’,” added the singer, who burst into tears during the concert in tribute to the victims of the Nice attack.
Calogero: “When my father found out that I had stolen, I had disappointed him”
“They came in a difficult context and in a desire to want to integrate, to have better days, and to have children who keep themselves to a minimum. Which wasn’t necessarily my case at school all the time, “ Calogero added before laughing. Subsequently, the musician confessed to Nikos Aliagas that he was a student “dissipated”, and that he had started “steal”. “When my father found out that I had stolen, I had disappointed him. I remember he didn’t speak to me. He had stayed in the living room in front of the TV, and he wasn’t looking at me, ” explained the singer, for whom this event was a “click”. “A week later, I was setting up my group,” he revealed to Nikos Aliagas. “He forgave me right away,” Calogero pointed out, while insisting that his father fought for him. In the end, the musician’s parents have now become “super proud” of their son. “They say to themselves that they have done well to come to France,” thus concluded the interpreter of the title In front of the sea, in duet with rapper Passi.
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