Getting drafted into 'The Voice' was 'an emotional lift' for Jean

• The first episode of season 11 of

  The Voice

  was broadcast on Saturday February 12, 2022 on TF1.

• Among the services broadcast, that of Jean Palau, a 38-year-old farmer from the Pyrénées-Orientales.

• If no coach has turned around on his cover of

  Rise Like A Phoenix

  , Nolwenn Leroy has decided to draft him.

  “I was taken by a crazy joy, by the excitement and by the anguish to tell me that I had to relaunch myself in the adventure”, he confides to

  20 Minutes

  .

It marked the first episode of the blind auditions for the eleventh season of

, broadcast on TF1 on Saturday.

Jean Palau, 38, a farmer on a farm in the high mountains near the Pyrénées-Orientales, had made the trip to fully reconnect with his passion for singing.

Fifteen years ago, when he set up his farm with his husband, he had to leave aside the activity of singer in a variety orchestra that punctuated his weekends.

Saturday night, the coaches did not look back on his cover of

by Conchita Wurst.

Fortunately, he was drafted by Nolwenn Leroy, the "surprise coach" of this edition.

He tells us more about this turnaround.

How did you end up in “The Voice”?

My nephew, who came to do a season on the farm this summer, heard me sing in the little studio I set up at home.

He said to me: “Uncle, it's not possible, you can't no longer make music and not make a scene”.

's casting director

] Bruno Berberes was sponsoring.

He spotted me and offered me to do the selections for

.

I went there but I didn't think I could be suitable for such a show.

Why ?

Not bathing in the middle of the music, I was afraid of not being up to the level of the talents usually chosen in

.

I had a lack of self-confidence.

And one day in December, you land on the set.

What did you feel ?

I had a hard time believing it.

The tray is as big as you can imagine in front of your TV.

I savored every minute of the chance that presented itself to me.

I had the hope that it would turn around and that it would put my foot in the stirrup to make music.

But alas, the coaches did not return.

You had it very badly...

I took a blow to the head.

At the time, I did not think of myself but of my nephew, my parents, my husband who were connected by video.

I knew that when I left the set, I was going to have to join Nikos and the screen where my family would appear.

The coaches told me that it was okay, that I was going to continue, but I told myself that, in real life, this is not what was going to happen: I will go back to the farm and I will resume the daily.

At the time, it was a small American dream that was fading.

The team was very benevolent, they even offered to see the show's psychologist, but I didn't feel the need.

Even though I had a big blow at the time, I managed to come to my senses.

When did you learn you had a second chance?

A few days later.

I had resumed my daily life and the production called my husband asking him to tell me about my draft by making a video.

As on the farm we sometimes do lives with our phones for our social networks, I thought, when I saw him arrive, that he was doing one.

There, he tells me that there was a fifth coach, Nolwenn Leroy, who had picked me up.

I felt like I was entering an incredible emotional elevator.

I knew my husband was not joking as it would have been a joke in very bad taste and he was very aware that it would have affected me.

I was taken by a crazy joy, by the excitement and by the anguish to tell me that I had to relaunch myself in the adventure.

We will therefore meet you at the “battles”.

How did you approach this step?

I said to myself that what I hadn't managed to find on the first pass, that is to say legitimacy towards the four other coaches, I had to go get it in this battle, while proving to Nolwenn that she had been right to trust me.

It put me in a fighting spirit, towards myself.

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