La Zarra, who is to represent France at the next Eurovision Song Contest scheduled for Liverpool on May 13, worries the French delegation and her admirers after she had to cancel a performance in Amsterdam. What is going on ?
After the cancellation of the Stromae concerts, it’s the health of La Zarra which worries now. Indeed, the Quebec singer who must represent France at the Concours Eurovision 2023 in Liverpool on May 13 had to cancel his performance at the last minute scheduled for Saturday April 15 in Amsterdam, as part of the event Eurovision In Concert where the other artists competing for this 67th edition performed. However, the artist had agreed to answer questions from journalists during the day, delivering on this occasion the first details of his performance for the final with his title Obviously. But in the evening, the French delegation announced at the last minute that the singer would not go on stage due to a “personnal issue”.
According to 20 minutesLa Zarra is “emotionally exhausted”. For The Parisian who interviewed members of his entourage and devoted an investigation to this cancellation, the reasons are various…
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La Zarra described as a “diva”
Indeed, our colleagues who followed her all day Saturday first evoke the arrival of La Zarra at AFAS Live in Amsterdam. “All smiles, La Zarra plays the game of selfies” they say. But at the time of starting rehearsals, the tone rises. “Annoyed” by the sound settings which would be more complicated than expected, she changes the lyrics of her title Obviously : “If I don’t have sound, I won’t sing La Grande Fraaaance”. “In management, we laugh yellow. His entourage too. They know La Zarra ain’t so good“ affirms The Parisianto whom she had previously confided that she had recovered his voice three weeks earlier, after having lost for six months. “I have highs and lows compared to the contest. Sometimes I tell myself that I’m going to win and other times that it’s too much. But I’m here to do the best I can.” she admitted.
The singer who had previously denounced on social networks a “unworthy hygiene” from his hotel room, describing “mold” and “blood spots” on a pillow, announces to her team that she does not intend to sing that evening, around 8 p.m. “After long negotiations, the interpreter agrees to respect his commitment” and the time of her visit is shifted, so that she can return to AFAS Live and prepare. But on the way, “La Zarra requires the driver to turn around” and she locks herself in her hotel room. His performance is thus officially cancelled. For an old acquaintance who calls her “diva”La Zarra has no “not left only good memories to his former managers“. “I had warned the chain [France 2, NDLR] that she was complicated to manage“ he says.
Mutique at first, the interpreter of you will go away finally wanted reassure his supporters in a message published on Sunday evening on social networks, confirming his presence in Liverpool on May 13. On the other hand, his participation in the London Party scheduled for Monday, April 17 is also compromised.