Vianney experienced "something crazy" by recording his song tribute to his grandfather

INTERVIEW

He was three years old, before the start of success, Vianney lost his grandfather.

A man he was very close to.

The singer closes his new album, 

, with a title dedicated to the one Vianney describes as "very altruistic", and who served as his model.

At the microphone of Anne Roumanoff, he explains that the recording of 

 has been given a boost from fate, in which he likes to see his grandfather's sign.

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A very symbolic date

"Something crazy happened with this song," warns Vianney.

The singer was stuck on his tribute to grandfather song for months.

One morning, he decides to move up a gear.

"I'm like 'OK, this morning I'm finishing it. I'm finishing the verse, the end, I add some of the structure and I record it," he recalls.

It is 7:30 am, the singer was his phone and locks himself in the studio.

The singer then puts a very special energy into it.

"I keep trying on the song. I don't let go," he explains.

At 11:30 am, the title is in the box and Vianney turns his phone back on.

"And there I get a message from my mother saying 'Little thought, because it's been three years since your grandfather left us.' It's amazing."

For Vianney, it's a sign that her grandfather has given her a helping hand.

"If we do not believe in heaven, we can think that it is the biological clock that made me finish this song three years later," he admits.

"Me, I tell myself that it was he who said to me 'Come on, today is my day! You put your hands in the grease, you will get there'. That morning, I ' was like carried. I never go that fast, but this was done in a morning. I think he was with me. "

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A model of modesty

If Vianney is moved by telling this story, it is because he had forged a very strong relationship with his grandfather, whom he says he instilled in him with the values ​​of altruism and work.

"My grandfather was a miller's son who opened a tobacconist and then a stationery store and who was determined all his life to work, and to try to do a good job", says the singer.

The artist also admired his grandfather's modesty.

"He was very polite, I always found him very elegant, and with a lot of discretion," he recalls.

"This song is also and above all a song about lack," he adds, regretting that his grandfather was unable to see him on stage.

'When someone has been so helpful in your construction, you sometimes regret that that person was not there to see how far you've come. "So Vianney chose, with 

, to do" a little place in this album "to the one who had" such a big place "in his life.