Jérôme Sebag was "sure" that Amel Bent would recognize him in "The Voice"

• The fifth episode of the blind auditions for season 11 of

  The Voice

  was broadcast on Saturday March 12, 2022 on TF1.

• Jérôme Sebag was one of the candidates in the running.

  This composer and performer has signed several songs for Amel Bent.

• "I'm naturally optimistic, so I imagined Amel's big smile, her surprise... There, there was that, the first eye contact, it was a big smile but, secondly, these questions arose and put a little gray cloud on the moment.

  Amel did not want to be accused of favoritism and at the same time, she knew that if she were to eliminate me, she would experience a delicate moment, ”says Jérôme Sebag to

  20 Minutes

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A talent like no other.

Jérôme Sebag scored the fifth episode of the eleventh season of

, broadcast on TF1 on Saturday.

The artist has nothing of a beginner.

He is a seasoned author and composer who notably wrote songs for… Amel Bent.

The singer almost instantly recognized the voice of the one who has worked on the majority of her albums, signing, among other things, her hit

.

However, it was with restrained and circumspect enthusiasm that she welcomed him into her team.

Jérôme Sebag returns in detail for

to this unusual sequence.

Your participation in "The Voice" is therefore due to a combination of circumstances...

Yes, I was coaching a very talented 16-year-old, Jessie, whose audition also aired on Saturday – she joined Marc Lavoine's team.

She had told me of her dream of participating in

.

I knew the casting director, Bruno Berberes, whom I had met while auditioning for a musical.

He is a very kind person.

So I sent him a video of Jessie, which he validated.

I accompanied her to the very first stage of the casting for season 11, without considering for a second to audition myself.

Once there, Bruno asked me to sing too.

And it went like this.

He left me the whole summer to reflect since the next stage was in September.

There was the risk that no one would turn around.

How would you have experienced it?

It would have been excruciating.

This was all my questioning during my period of reflection.

People tend to say, "You have nothing to lose."

There, it was not true.

The sensitivity, the psychological state of an artist, it's a lot to lose, because there is the risk of feeling like crap.

I was convinced that at least Amel was going to turn around.

I was quite confident but, despite everything, I was in flip.

I had asked the production not to broadcast my passage in case no coach would have turned around.

Amel Bent, Vianney and Marc Lavoine took some time to turn around.

Did you experience it badly?

No, because I didn't see anything.

I was three quarters and I was really into my song.

I didn't feel that pressure at all.

At the end, there was a moment of hesitation where I said to myself “shit, nobody turned around” [as a reminder: the sounds of the buzzers are added to the edit.

During filming, the chairs turn around in silence].

I felt a kind of disappointment, as if a meteorite fell on my head.

It took eight or ten seconds – actually it seems like a very long time – until I realized that three coaches had turned around.

Were you sure Amel Bent was going to recognize your voice?

There is always a part of doubt, but I was still 99% sure.

We know each other so well.

It's not like other artists for whom I've been able to compose and with whom we have ties from afar, even sometimes, we don't meet because it's a publisher-to-publisher job.

Amel, I didn't meet her for her first album.

For her second, we bumped into each other by chance because I was on a promo for Martin Solveig [Jérôme Sebag, under the pseudonym of Jay Sebag, is the voice of the tube

] on Radio Champagne and she was for

.

I went to introduce myself to her in the dressing rooms, telling her that it was I who had done You're not there anymore and that's how we met.

Afterwards, we met in the studio to validate

, taken from his third album.

I then composed half of his fourth album.

We then spent a lot of time in the studio, she came to my house, I accompanied her on her radio promo in Paris and in the provinces.

We always followed each other.

On the fifth album, she covered one of my songs,

.

So she had the opportunity to hear me sing.

We have a real relationship.

What is not trivial is that, given your experience, the three coaches seemed reluctant to have you on their teams.

Amel Bent the first who fears being accused of cronyism…

In hindsight, I reproach myself for not having considered this.

I'm naturally optimistic, so I imagined Amel's big smile, her surprise... There, there was that, the first eye contact, it was a big smile but, secondly, these questions popped up and put a little gray cloud over the moment.

Amel did not want to be accused of favoritism and at the same time, she knew that if she were to eliminate me, she would live a delicate moment.

Either way, she loses.

I blamed myself for not having anticipated this thing which, afterwards, is obvious to understand.

Initially, I wanted to join the Vianney team because he has such freshness, such writing… He could have taught me things about the songwriter aspect.

But as neither he,

Without saying too much about the rest of your career in "The Voice", you were able to prepare the battle serenely with Amel Bent?

I would say yes.

She always wanted to make it clear, so that there was no unease between us, that she was there to be objective, that she wouldn't give quarters.

She said it again with a smile during the preparation for the battles.

Afterwards, the exchanges were quite quick, she still had seven battles to manage in one afternoon… Amel did not give me gifts, but in sympathy.

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