“Give me your heart, baby, your body, baby. Give me your good old funk, your rock baby, your soul baby. Sing with me, I want a woman like you…” In 2004, K-Maro became known to the general public with his title Femme Like U, which sold more than five million copies. An immense success which was not without consequences for the Lebanese-Canadian singer, as he confided in the show Click broadcast this Tuesday April 23 on Canal+. “Mental health didn’t hold up. After a while, I burned the candle at both ends”explained the author of the autobiography Renaissances recently published by Faces Cachées. And to continue: “I ended up hospitalized at 42 or 43 kilos, I think.”
From then on, Mouloud Achour wanted to know “the warning signs” of this delicate period. And the interested party responds: “Tiredness. You feel like you’ll never actually recover. At the same time, I mixed the work I did with my teams, managing this success, responding to demand and travel. I think we were number one in almost twenty countries”, he said. The ex-producer of Shy’m then continued his story: “I had to travel to these countries and promote them with showcases and concerts. I think the warning signs were the weight loss and this sort of fatigue.” Looking back at images from that era, K-Maro is adamant. “I think it was obvious that I was going to go bad”, he confided bluntly. A difficult period that K-Maro was able to overcome thanks to the support of those close to him.
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K-Maro on the verge of tears as he talks about the mistakes of his past
Achieving success was revenge for K-Maro. Very quickly, with the money he earned from his first titles, he splurged, bought cars and spent his first fees in order to please his parents, as he explained on the talk show. show What an erathis Saturday April 20 on France 2. “There is nothing I can do that is dear enough or strong enough to repay my parents except to try to be a good person. That’s a bit what brought me back to my senses”, he confided to Léa Salamé. And that’s how the one who wanted to “become that successful guy” decided that it was time to change his life. “I had to come to my senses”, he explained on the verge of tears. Today, K-Maro lives a life far from the spotlight and manages a gallery in Montreal with his wife Anne-Sophie Mignaux.
Photo credits: Screenshot Clique – Canal+