In May 2014, France discovered a promising face in music: Kendji Girac. With its gipsy pop rhythms and his foolproof smile, the young artist won the third edition of the TF1 tele-hook The Voixe, in front of 6.5 million viewers. If Eva Alba’s dad no longer has to prove himself in the fourth art, he has decided to set foot in the seventh by playing inChampiona TV movie broadcast on TF1 in January 2021.”I play Zack, a boy who has difficulty reading and writing because his parents took him out of school too early to put him to work from an early age.”, had revealed at the time the star in the columns ofParisian. A story that seems to echo the life of the interpreter of Andalusians.
At the age of 8, Kendji Girac had already started singing accompanied by his father on the guitar. His family belonging to the travel communityhe traveled the country with his family, a rhythm of life that pushed him to drop out of school at 16. His shortcomings, the singer brought them to the screen to raise awareness of illiteracy, a touching problem 7% of population adult aged 18 to 65 having been educated in France according to the National Agency for fight against illiteracy. “I was often offered romantic comedies around music or my gypsy roots and I wanted something else. This time, the story that I will tell around illiteracy is a very interesting topic that concerns many people“, he completed with our colleagues.
Kendji: “I redoubled my efforts”
“When I was younger, I could read of course, but not fast enough to follow the lyrics on the teleprompters to the beat of the music when I was singing on TV shows.“, confessed toParisianthe French revelation of the year 2014. Far from giving upKendji Girac decided to ask for help to deal with his problem:It doesn’t matter not knowing how to write or read, you just have to learn slowly, take an interest in order to improve your writing. Me, I asked for help, I redoubled my efforts, I made fewer mistakes.“A beautiful message.