his victory, his mother, his tears … Tayc tells (EXCLUDED)

The suspense had lasted long enough! Despite the mobilization of the fans of the Michou and Bilal Hassani teams, it was ultimately Tayc who won the trophy of Dance with the stars. As for Fauve Hautot, she won her third victory in ten years of career in the flagship show of TF1.

2021 is definitely a good year for singer Tayc, who has just released the reissue of his album, Cold flower: crystallization. He is also the star of the Christmas series Christmas Flow, available on Netflix. And it’s not over: 2022 will be the opportunity for him to find his audience on stage with a tour through France. There is no doubt that the public will be there, because his victory in Dance with the stars allowed him to reach a wider audience. But also, to defend Afro culture and Afro-beat, which are particularly close to his heart. and that he worked to make it more mainstream during the show.

Tayc’s victory is ultimately a reflection of this beautiful 2021 edition: inclusive and multifaceted. From Michou, youtubeur-star, to Bilal Hassani, artist and LGBTQI + activist, via Dita Von Teese, queen of burlesque, Dance with the stars 2021 has been able to bring together multiple universes and remains an unforgettable adventure for the young 25-year-old artist. He tells us.

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Before you start Dance with the stars, you said you told your mother that if you won, she should sleep with the trophy. Does it still hold?
Yes, by the way, she’s starting to get tired, because the trophy hurts her cheeks a little … She has the mark of the sequins on it. She wanted to stop and I told her “No, no… You’re going to sleep with it for a month, as planned. You have to keep your promise!” So there he still has 27 days to sleep with the trophy of Dance with the stars (laughs).

Why was this victory important to you?
At first it wasn’t that important. The idea was to discover a new audience and for people to discover me by doing as many shows as possible, but also to have fun. And then, I was with Fauve, so every Friday was a pleasure and on social networks, it was always the excitement. In any case, I won because I won in public. I had won a step. Afterwards, the quarter-finals and the final arrived and there you say to yourself: “Okay, so we might as well go through with it.” So you get into a little more mood … fight. At that time, I went to see Michou and Bilal and I told them: “Well guys, okay that was cool, we played fair play and said to ourselves ‘May the best one win’, but now we have to go” (laughs). They too took it as a challenge, a competition. So it was rather towards the end that I got into a more competitive spirit. I told myself I had to fight Fauve because at least I wouldn’t have done it for nothing. It’s a bit like climbing Mont-Blanc: if after 50 meters, you turn around, that’s okay. But if you have 50 meters to go, you look behind you and you see weeks and weeks of work … You tell yourself that all you have done is to lift the cup.

How would you define the relationship you have developed with Fauve?
It worked from the start. We see it in the pictures where she comes to see me in Bercy to meet me. Five minutes before I was told that I was going to dance with Fauve, I was asked who I wanted as a partner. I immediately said that I dreamed of dancing with her and I never hid it. So when I found out that she would be my partner, the satisfaction was at its peak. I immediately saw in her a person who looked a lot like me. From the first rehearsals, I saw her as a very rigorous person. Its only enemy is itself, that is to say, it fights to surpass itself. With Fauve, sometimes, you train on a choreography, then she has a moment of absence and says to you “No, in fact, this step, I did it with Jean-Marie Bigard in 2014. I cannot do it again. If I did this once, I have to do better.” She gives herself no respite to excel and in that, she reminds me a lot of myself.

Afro must shine! These are things that I will continue to fight for, body and soul.

With such a victory, do you hope to give better visibility to artists, music and Afro culture in general?
It was even part of my personal convictions! I thought the show was cool, but we shouldn’t see a Tayc who was only going to do classic with a tutu and sequins. There was an image and a mood to convey and the show gave it back to me, in the sense that from the first prime, I danced to a Burna Boy song… I wanted to stay true to what I was doing. defend, it was also necessary that the people who follow me from the beginning do not feel lost when they see a Tayc who, in quotes, would have been “transvestite” artistically. I really needed to be Tayc in Dance with the stars, I didn’t want to play a character. In the end, no matter what shows, reality shows or films I make, I will have to keep this consistency in what I try to convey: values ​​and musical ideologies that I want to convey. Afro must simply shine! These are things that I will continue to fight for, body and soul.

This final was very moving for you. For the first time, we saw you cry. Is that all the pressure that has gone down?
There is that, but you also have to know that this show is very well produced. There are plenty of times on the show that I could have gone back to my school (a sequence broadcast on the evening of the final, editor’s note), for example. It had to be done on the last tape recorder. At that point, I am under the greatest pressure because it is the final. So when I see my old educator again, I’m not ready, I didn’t expect to see him at all. The production went through my childhood friends to make contact with him and he came to meet me during the shooting… Everything is true. When editing, you might think it’s wrong, but the surprise was really real. I’ll even ask them to send me the rushes so I can have it. This moment was very strong… In 25 years, I had never cried for joy. You know those times when you smile so much that the brain turns around and you end up crying. I had never experienced this in my life. Never.

The victory was the same: seeing all my relatives, seeing my father cry, it was so intense… Then fatigue also plays a big role. The more the weeks go by, the more the public focuses on us. When we are 11 candidates, there are perhaps 6 minutes of magneto devoted to us. When there are only three left, the magneto is longer. So we don’t want to show fatigue either because people will maybe see it as something unpleasant and say to themselves that you don’t care, when you are just tired… There is a pressure compared to That and the more the shows go on, the hotter it gets.

The other big surprise was the message Billy Crawford sent you …
(Laughs). Yes, I didn’t believe that at first. There was so much noise and everyone was screaming… I thought maybe that’s wrong. But I looked at him again and he says Tayc. It was awesome!

You are a great admirer of Billy Crawford. What other artists made you want to make music?
I am a child of the 2000s, I grew up during this decade with incredible artists like Usher, Chris Brown, Ne-Yo… I watched television in 2005-2006. I was rocked by MCM. It is with this culture that I started to sensitize my ear to this style of music!