INTERVIEW
His mother wanted him to be a water and forest engineer. But Sébastien Cauet, better known by his simple surname, took the road to radio. A trajectory that would probably not have been his if his mother was not dead carried away by breast cancer. "Life can be cruel and very strange at the same time," says the host, invited Saturday of the show There is not a life in life . At the microphone of Isabelle Morizet, the one who is also a humorist, TV man and youtubeur to success told his story, while out his book T'es dressed like everyone else, but you look like no one! .
Taciturn boy
At age 7, the only son born in a family in the North, Sébastien Cauet swears he will not stay in Picardy. "There was no way for me to do as my uncles, my cousins, my grandfather, work in the candy," says the radio host, who concedes that he was yet happy. But the loss of his mother to 10 years and that of his father at 20 years that he had to manage very quickly alone. "I suddenly switched to adulthood, it makes a boy a little withdrawn, this taciturn boy that I was, I'm always a little bit, I'm not the one. in-train who will make jokes at the table, even in the middle of full of friends, "adds Cauet, far from the image" no limit "he built.
It is in his teenage room that he makes his own education. He discovers magneto-cassettes, touches on humor, recordings. "I began to make voices, imitations, I began to make a character, which once the door of my room closed, was a little crazier than I was in life." With the complicity of his father, he cultivates his passions for computer and mixing. "My dad did not really earn a living, he did not have any expenses for him, his pleasure was to please me, it was almost anything but a scooter, he did not want me to be so bad. on a scooter ... "
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a morbid timidity, a physical that we do not assume much, a flexibility that does not allow to be a dancer, we go there by elimination
And then, through The School of Fans , he is fascinated by the media world. "But with an unhealthy shyness, a physique that we do not assume much, a flexibility that does not allow us to be a dancer, we go by elimination, I wanted to do that, that's why I went quite quickly to animation and radio Hidden behind the wind, we are different, we can give ourselves a role.We are 25 years old, we are surfer, we are 1.90m.
From 13 years and half, he sends to the stations jingles that he mixed. One day, one of them passes, he will then visit the radio. "It all started, I actually learned to dare." When his father dies, he sells the family home, stays in Paris where he is in business school. "I had absolutely nothing to do, I was doing radio next door", as a trainee, literally stashed in the cupboards, because without an internship agreement. And after every tragedy, he realizes that life is smiling at him, as when a radio boss tells him yes. His ascent is fast. He accumulates experiences, goes through Fun radio, Virgin, NRJ, Europe 2.
"TV can drive you crazy"
Cauet has the fagot, "the envy of the challenge". At 27, he becomes boss of the station Laughter and songs. "I had a week of terrible depression, it was anything but what I wanted at the time." But on the fifth day, he sees everything, starts. "We structured it like a news radio, the radio took off." He is then spotted by Étienne Mougeotte to launch the Cauet method on TF1. And so adds the TV component to his career, before adding his videos on the Internet.
At 47, he savored his career. "The TV can drive a lot of people crazy, when we are there and then when we are gone, I've seen a lot of people change by being there, and a lot of people are deeply unhappy by not being there anymore." Today, he has 1.5 billion views on the Internet.
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The big head when we do our job, it's normal to have it
The big head when we do our job, it's normal to have it. It means that at one point, we disconnect a little and we say 'it's ok, I'm a star'. We are very stupid! I got it around 20/21 years old and it did not last very long. I thought 'there you're stupid, stop igniting'. Today, with his production company, Be aware, Cauet is ultimately more of a businessman than a mere animator. But he keeps his humorous cap and plans to celebrate his next birthday on stage.
"Not very bling-bling"
Otherwise, no glitter, he says. After a detour through Miami and although he happens to mix in Las Vegas, Le Touquet is home to his main residence. "I'm not very bling-bling, I like to enjoy things but sprinkling the body of champagne dancers on the beaches of Saint-Tropez has never been my delusion at all." After having also educated his two children of 17 and 19, he aims a last dream: to return to his first love, the direction of a radio. "It's not a bad kid thing, I did it before, but it was not my job and the people I did it for were delighted. only 10% or 20% of what I could have done, maybe the next one will be the right one. "