• Paul'O was qualified by his coach Vianney during the knockouts.

    from season 10 of

    The Voice

    .

  • The 31-year-old singer created excitement by covering

    Say, when will you be back?

    by Barbara.

    "I was in a sort of trance, it's as if I had written the text, as if

    I was

    the song," he tells

    20 Minutes

    .

  • Paul'O is committed to defending the classics of the French repertoire in the telecrochet.

    “I rarely hear songs on the radio that have so much impact, of coarse beauty, true and sincere.

    Keeping the roughness and that truth is important, ”he says.

Amel Bent, Marc Lavoine had tears in their eyes.

Saturday on TF1, Paul'O won his ticket for the next stage of this tenth stage of

The Voice

thanks to his cover of

Say, when will you come back

.

A performance "exceptional", judged Vianney, who was nonetheless moved, this success of Barbara reminding him of his grandmother.

“When I saw the emotion of the coaches, I told myself that I had done the work and served the song, explains the thirty-something.

I was in a sort of trance, it's like I wrote

the lyrics

, like

I was

the song.

It's an understatement to say that his interpretation was embodied: his deep voice and his gaze seemed to support every word.

Since the beginning of the telecrochet, Paul'O has made an impression by resuming

Je t'emmène au vent

by Louise Attaque, but above all, during blind auditions,

Des arms

by Léo Ferré.

"A lot of songs tend to be smoothed out today"

"There is very little chance that I will be heard singing Lady Gaga, there are those who do it very well, who have the vocal power, the will ... Singing in English to make yogurt is not not my thing at all, ”he confirms.

If he considers himself "far from being a standard-bearer", he is keen to defend French song, songs "which convey emotions through words", the classics of the repertoire.

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“I rarely hear songs on the radio that have so much impact, of coarse beauty, true and sincere.

A lot of things tend to be smoothed out today.

Keeping the roughness and that truth is important.

Paul'O doesn't just sing other people's words.

He writes and composes for his group

Brin d'Zinc

with which he walks, apart from a health crisis, the bars of Finistère.

The Voice

opened up a wider audience to them: “People come to see what we're doing, are very pleasantly surprised and it's great for us.

"

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