• The author, composer and performer Gabriel Joseph is one of the candidates of

    The Artist

    , the new show of France 2, which highlights “complete” talents.

  • Le Montpelliérain will introduce viewers and the jury to his songs, inspired by his references, French song and American soul.

Very young, when Alizée or the Lofteurs trusted the best sales of singles in France, Gabriel Joseph, him, listened to Jean Ferrat. “I was 5 years old, I was a big fan, remembers the artist. I loved his poetry, his voice. We don't really have the notion of what is fashionable, or not, when we are children. It was beautiful, it touched me. "

Twenty years later, it is with his own songs that this Montpellier native, who grew up in the Haute-Vallée de l'Aude, will participate on Saturday in

The Artist,

the telecrochet of France 2. It is the first program of this kind to which this author, composer and performer competes.

Unlike other young talents, he did not run the plateaus.

"I could have participated in other shows," says Gabriel Joseph.

But I was going a bit backwards.

Beyond being an interpreter, applying as an artist, with a project, a universe, bringing his songs, that appealed to me more.

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"I dreamed of being a writer"

This is also at the heart of the concept of Nagui's new program: revealing complete talents, and not just voices. “I lived for two years in a hostel, I wrote a lot for myself,” says Gabriel Joseph. I dreamed of being a writer. And, also, I loved to sing. I remember, I organized choirs, with other children. As in

Les choristes

, a film that rocked his young years.

Little by little, the two disciplines, writing and singing, became linked. “I started to write my songs, to design my universe, continues the young man. Take confidence in myself, as an artist. " Uncompromising. Declining, in particular, the tempting proposal of a prestigious record company to integrate a group of a cappella singers, with an urban tendency. “I have great respect for this proposal, and this record company. But it was not really his sensitivity, confides Gabriel Joseph. I was starting to know who I was, and I didn't necessarily want to engage in something that wasn't like me. It may be a little cheeky, it's true. "

The universe of Gabriel Joseph is, first of all, French song, “poetry”, he confides, of Jean Ferrat or Francis Cabrel.

And "the rhythm, the musicality, the intensity", of the American soul of the 1970s. "But my music remains current", resumes Gabriel Joseph, who includes, on his YouTube channel Apple, Ben Mazué, Yseult and Pierre Lapointe.

But it is with his own titles, Saturday, that he will try to convince the jury and viewers.

"It is an incredible opportunity that I have been offered", he rejoices.

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