Calogero deconfines his new songs in "Center ville"

The singer Calogero.

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• Center ville

  is Calogero's new album.

• The disc contains two songs written by Benjamin Biolay.

  “I texted him saying that if he wanted we could try to do a song together.

  To answer me, he called me outright and gave the green light, ”Calogero told

  20 Minutes

  .

• “The song

  Stylo vert

  is a bit like my romance story,” he confides.

  I can read, but I failed at school.

  It's complicated to tell my four children.

  "

Calogero began designing his new album in the spring, during the first lockdown.

, the first extract, was released in full imposed confinement and the proceeds were donated to the Foundation hospitals of Paris-Hospitals of France.

He described the situation by singing about this "funny silence in the street" and these days of the week which each looked like "unforeseen Sunday".

The second confinement postponed by one month the marketing of this disc,

, which will finally be available on Friday.

“I make an album every four years, I put all my guts into it and the release date, you never decide in a hurry, explains Calogero to

.

I have a long history with the public, I imagine that at Christmas they will be happy to have my album.

"

At the foot of the tree, his fans will find a cake with twelve tracks.

The singer remains on known and marked out ground.

The effectiveness of the melodies is intact.

, extract broadcast since this summer, set the tone by following the frantic rhythm of the noise which runs while the artist clicks consonants and syllables.

An SMS to Benjamin Biolay and two songs

It is a lot about love: the one that begins one day (

), the one that will never materialize (the single

), the one that ended (

,

…).

The unexpected is Benjamin Biolay.

“I texted him saying that if he wanted we could try to do a song together,” Calogero says.

To answer me, he called me straight up and gave the green light.

That same evening, before going to bed, I composed some music on the guitar and sent it to him.

The next morning, I woke up, I had received a text, that of

.

Or the story of a break with iodized rhymes spinning the maritime metaphor.

Benjamin Biolay also wrote the lyrics for

, an ode to urban night owl joys, combining synths and electric guitars, which looks like a tube.

Green pen

, which closes the album, clashes.

It is about an illiterate dad who tries to give the change in front of his children.

So that they did not suspect "that their elementary lessons were for him only a mystery, a fog of black letters".

“It's a bit of my romance story,” says the singer.

I can read, but I failed at school.

It's complicated to tell my four children.

"

Passion for history

We open a parenthesis.

In class, the only subject that aroused the interest of the schoolboy Calogero was history.

“I looked at the friezes above the painting with Danton, Gambetta, Jaurès, Hugo… All these characters fascinated me,” he lists.

So the first thing he did when he arrived in Paris was to go and visit the Pantheon.

He is passionate about the period from the late 19th to the middle of the 20th century.

He knows the Dreyfus affair and its twists by heart.

The breath of history inspires sounds, melodies.

He would have liked to compose the soundtrack of the series

.

He would love to make music for films.

He has already approached the exercise with

of Claude Lelouch last year.

But he would dream of being the official pair of a director.

"I know that one day I will meet a director who will trust me", he urges.

He is aware that, since the financial stakes are high in the production of a film, calling on him involves taking a risk.

Let's close the parenthesis.

Or not completely, because this idea of ​​daring to take the plunge is the whole message conveyed by

, a pop title opening 

.

Calogero sings there: “When you finally started, your life started over and it was better afterwards.

A refrain to have in mind during the total deconfinement.

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