Who is Madame, the Italian prodigy who is releasing a duet with Hatik?

• You understood me

  , duet between Madame and Hatik, was released on Friday January 28, 2022.

• Madame, whose real name is Francesca Calearo, is a 20-year-old Italian author, composer and performer, whose first album was one of the best-selling in Italy last year.

• Far from any formatting, Madame confided very intimate things in her interviews, revealing deep wounds and a malaise that she says she learned to fight.

This Friday, Madame unveiled

, sung in duet with Hatik.

Lady who?

Lady just.

As her stage name does not indicate, this artist is Italian and, on the other side of the Alps, she is one of the most promising and celebrated young artists.

His self-titled debut album was the fifth best-selling in Italy last year.

In the wake of Måneskin, Mahmood or Achille Lauro, she contributes to the revival of the transalpine musical scene, dynamiting any attempt at formatting.

There,

 describes her as “a symbol of fluidity, of inclusion, of a genderless style that knows how to stay in the present”.

So much for the state of mind, but it doesn't really say who Madame is.

So a few biographical elements: in the civil status, she is Francesca Calearo, born in Veneto in northern Italy.

She grew up in this region, in Creazzo, a town of 11,000 souls.

On January 16, she celebrated her 20th birthday.

His first album in the Top 5 bestsellers

Her springboard was the 2021 Sanremo Festival. At this institution of Italian song – which saw the group Måneskin triumph and win their Eurovision ticket with the success that we know – she finished eighth out of twenty- six artists in competition.

She defended

there , a title navigating between rap and pop, which has established itself as one of the successes of the year in Italy: in the annual ranking, it emerges in tenth position.

Subsequently,

, taken from his first album, also became a hit in the heart of summer.

She has multiplied collaborations with artists from all walks of life, from rappers Sfera Ebbasta (for

, of which

is the French adaptation) and Sick Luke (

) to figures of Italian variety Marco Mengoni (

) and Laura Pausini for whom she wrote the song

, which was released recently.

However, nothing seemed to predestine him to a career as a singer. “At 14, in full puberty, I had an ugly, very strange voice (…). In the college choir, they placed me between the guys and the chicks, they didn't know where to put me, she told

. In high school, I told myself that I wanted to write. »

A fan of rap, she embarked on this path, recording two pieces in the studio that did not go unnoticed: 

and

.

This last song was inspired by one of her teachers she was in love with (she defines herself as bisexual).

“It's crazy how your needs transform things.

I thought a 60-year-old woman was beautiful, ”she told  Italian

 last year.

In the meantime, the young artist found her stage name, Madame, while playing with a drag-queen name generator.

“Madame is the figure of authority, the me of the future, a woman, a mystic who takes me high.

A super-me who has a duty to write my songs,” she told

.

Work on self-esteem

While yielding to the game of photo shoots for glossy paper, she responds to interviews without smoothing her speech.

She says she suffered from school bullying.

“I stank, had my teeth in front and a shitty character,” she told

.

“Once I passed out and my classmates stomped on me.

They trampled on me to see if I was pretending, ”she recalled to

.

Years later, the wound remains alive.

“No matter what journey you take, certain weaknesses follow you forever,” she lamented in the pages of

.

In the same magazine, she declared, last spring: “The sexual relationship as I want it, with the secret ingredient of love, I have never had it.

I had my first intercourse when I was 15.

The one where I lost my virginity, so to speak.

The man in question was in his thirties, who "manipulated" her, she added, without explicitly mentioning rape.

If her responses to interviews in the first half of 2021 reveal a lively flay, shaken by inner storms, Madame delivered, last November, in

, a very popular television program in Italy, a monologue on self-esteem reflecting a work of introspection.

She explained how, in the previous months, with her participation in Sanremo and the release of her first album, she had almost foundered.

“I took anxiolytics as if it were water. I was not eating. I was not sleeping. It was a vicious circle. (…) At one point, it got even worse. (…) I then wrote one of my most beautiful sentences: "I'm not afraid of dying, but I'm afraid of wanting to die." Then I said to myself: enough is enough. You can't go on like this. I started working every day to find meaning. I faced the anguish that had always accompanied me. (…) We cannot waste our lives because we are afraid of suffering. Or to die. This is huge bullshit. Understanding this was a release for me. »

“I got on my feet.

I found meaning in love.

And I have self-esteem because I know how to understand myself, accept myself and love myself.

(…) And even if I did not find the remedy to prevent me from going bad, I treated the fear of going bad”, concluded the artist.

Madame foresees brighter tomorrows, in every sense of the word.

And that's good news: 

could open up a new audience for her, in France, quick to discover that, on the Italian music scene, Madame is on the way to becoming a great lady.

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