On the occasion of the release of his new album, the singer confided this January 31 on the set of “C à vous”. He revealed that he feared the bullying of the Enfoirés troupe, with whom he performed last January.
Five years after the release of his album Rio, Christophe Willem returns to music. The former winner of the New star notably performed alongside the Enfoirés troupe, whose latest show, shot in Lyon, is to be released on the small screen. But his return was tinged with nervousnessas related Tele-Leisure. For good reason: the commercial failure of his album Rio. Released in 2017, his fifth opus sold some 40,000 copies. The singer explained himself on the set of It’s up to you on France 5, after singing live his latest title, “J’tomberai pas”, from his new album Panorama.
“An oven.” This is how Christophe Willem described the reception of Rio. What to intimidate him when he joined the Enfoirés again for this year’s show. “Les Enfoirés are not at all slanderous, but when i went there i felt like everyone was watching meas if there was a group phenomenon and they were like, ‘This is the guy who sells three records'”he describes.
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A period of doubts
The failure of Rio marked the beginning of a complicated period for the singer: “When you’ve been working on a project for a year and a half or two, and it doesn’t find its audience, you’re kind of there struggling on your own. Afterwards, the tour was very heartwarming, the audience was there , It did me good.” A difficult moment that reminded him of the time when he was harassed in her youth : “I found myself like at school, the guy we point a little finger at.” This commercial failure led him to take the longest break of his career since winning the New star. A truce fallen “battery during confinement” ; a stop “sudden” which, however, he describes as “beneficial.” His new album, Panoramahas been in stores since September 16, 2022.