He is one of the most popular French singers of the moment: for several years, Vincent Niclo has been at the top of the best-selling records. However, if he knows the success since his album recorded with the Choirs of the Red Army, his debut was not the easiest. In 2003 he was one of the heroes of the musical Gone with the wind by Gérard Presgurvic. But success is not there. No more than in 2006 for the release of his first solo album A name on my face. However, long before these tests, Vincent Niclo had joined a group. In 1996, the singer joined the mixband Thats' French alongside Rod Janois and Joanna Boumendil. A little-known musical past for many of his fans today, that Laurent Ruquier decided to unearth on Sunday January 31, 2020 in the show Children of TV on France 2.
Despite the success, Vincent Niclo has not forgotten his first steps in the song
The host has indeed proposed archive images on which we see the romantic singer, then aged twenty years, swaying on a disco track then taking again the tube of Patrick Juvet Where are the women ? If the other guests of the show, Benjamin Castaldi and Daphné Bürki had fun with this "pan", Vincent Niclo seemed very happy to see these images again. The tenor sang to the tune of his old song and smiled widely. "It was the era of boy bands", he remembered. "They were looking for a mixband, that is to say a girl and two boys. Me, I dreamed of making a record and it was my first record". If Vincent Niclo admits that the disco style of the song did not necessarily suit him, he assumes 100% this part of his career. "It wasn't really what I wanted to do but that's okay, I really wanted to do this job. I thought it could take me elsewhere and it took me elsewhere", he concluded, while greeting his former producers Jean-Pierre Pasqualini and Jeff Barnel whom he has not forgotten despite the success.
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