Since her first album in 1996, until "Karma" in 2021, Hélène Ségara has built over the course of her career a special bond with her fans, some of whom she calls by their first name and whose lives she follows.
A close relationship that is obvious to her, as she explains in the show "It feels good".
INTERVIEW
Back with her 13th album,
Karma
, which she self-produced and which will be released in February 2021, Hélène Ségara feels lucky and happy to still have a career almost 25 years after the release of her first album,
Cœur de verre
.
The juror of
France has an incredible talent
thinks that she owes this longevity to her fans, with whom she has developed a close relationship, as she says in
It
feels
good
at the microphone of Anne Roumanoff.
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"I don't like it when they hang out outside after concerts"
The singer indeed knows the first names of a large number of her fans.
“They call me 'Mommy hen',” she smiles.
"I actually don't like it when they hang out outside after concerts waiting for me."
The singer is delighted to find them after singing on stage but is also worried about them.
“I always ask them 'But what are you doing outside at this time of day?', 'Why aren't you home?', Or 'Why aren't you fighting for your dreams?'. .. I yell at them a bit, "laughs the singer.
"So they're right, I'm a bit like their mother hen".
Hélène Ségara believes that it is for this privileged bond with people that she chose this profession.
It is even difficult for him to imagine that it could be otherwise.
"We are not there only to take from the public. That is to say that the public gives us a lot. But if we give nothing in return, we can go home and forget them," she explains. .
"Me, I'm not in there."