Solène Delinger 3:00 p.m., September 25, 2022
Sheila is the guest of Didier Barbelivien on Sunday in the program "Tell me what you sing".
At the microphone of her friend, the singer indulges in secrets about her relationship to life and the passage of time.
The "little fiancée of the French", now 77 years old, confides to live "difficultly" the remarks on her physique.
She was barely 18 when she found success.
In 1963, Sheila released her first 45, which sold 80,000 copies.
The French fall under the spell of the interpreter of
The school is over
, her pretty face and her little plaid skirts.
A few years later, in 1968, it is the consecration: Sheila is elected favorite female artist of the French.
The 1970s will be just as fruitful for the artist who released his first title in English
Love me baby.
The "little fiancée of the French" has everything going for her: her titles are broadcast on the radio in a loop, she is young, beautiful and happy in love.
"Women, you have to throw them away from the age of 40"
But time has passed.
And, looking back, the singer admits that evolving in the public eye is not easy.
People's gaze is sometimes hard, often malevolent.
Especially for women.
"It's very difficult when you move forward in time," says Sheila on Sunday at the microphone of Didier Barbelivien in
Tell me what you sing.
"You're going to have a little wrinkle there, another little wrinkle in another place. For a man we say: 'How beautiful he is!'. Women, you have to throw them away from 40 years old “, is indignant the 77-year-old star.
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"People don't give gifts"
Sheila explains that getting old is absolutely "terrible" because "people don't give gifts".
And, she experiences this sexism and misogyny on a daily basis.
"When you want to buy anything, go shopping at a trader, there are lots of people, and you hear a good woman who says 'she, she's gotten old'".