the weird reason she ‘forced herself to smoke cigarettes’ and drink alcohol

This Thursday, November 10, TMC broadcast at 9:15 p.m. the first issue of its new program, On weekends with…, presented by Hélène Mariano. And it’s singer Jennifer which opened the ball by taking the presenter in the footsteps of her childhood in Nice, with her relatives in Corsica, near Ajaccio, and behind the scenes of her professional life, in Paris. A busy weekend, therefore, during which the 39-year-old artist indulged in some confidences. The ex-juror of The Voice notably returned to her childhood and adolescence, during which she already dreamed of becoming a singer. “I loved to sing, but in a very personal way”she said.

Locked in her room, the one who was then only a young girl, long before joining the Star Academy, listened to the records of her idols, from Whitney Houston to Stevie Wonder, via Janis Joplin. “I learned to sing on them”said Jenifer, before explaining that she was then trying toimitate their voices. When it came to copying the famous hoarse timbre of Janis Joplinthe future star seed used all the stratagems. “I was purposely screaming into a pillow to make my voice sound completely scratchy”she confessed to Hélène Mariano. “And I had forced myself to smoke cigarettes and gargle with my grandfather’s anisette to get his voicebut it never worked”had fun the mother of the family.

Jenifer moved by talking about her family

At the mention of his grandfather, Jenifer was particularly moved. “He was a hero, my grandfather. He was a relatively quiet person, who didn’t need to talk too much to make himself understood. He was a war hero. He was too strong“she confided with tenderness, before revealing that he had not been able to see the pretty career of his granddaughter. “He left too soon, he didn’t see.” The singer was nevertheless able to count on the presence and support of her two grandmothers. “It was my grandmothers who witnessed my beginnings, from Star Ac’, from my first tour. My grandmothers came to see me on stage”, she remembered. Her dream of being on stage, the singer knows she has to also to his parentswho let her join the capital at only 16 years old to live from her passion.