Gjon's Tears ready to take off after "The Voice" and Eurovision

• The Swiss Gjon's Tears, 24, unveils this Thursday the clip of his song

  Pure

  , one of the titles of his first album which will be released in early 2023.

• In May 2021, the artist revealed in The Voice in 2019, finished third in Eurovision.

  "After being propelled so high, I finally found the sort of legitimacy I was looking for, but I was also terrified because I was like, 'So what?'

  “, he confides to

  20 Minutes

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• “On my album, there will be different styles, different influences.

  I want when you hear my songs you say 'it reminds me of something from the 1980s, the 1960s…'”, explains Gjon's Tears, who notably worked with director Tim Bran, maker of Birdy's albums, London Grammar and Aurora, and Zazie.

"Today, I want to believe in myself, buds are reborn from chaos..." With his new song,

, the clip of which he unveils this Thursday, Gjon's Tears announces the color: it is with serenity that he approaches the sequel of his career and the release of his first album, scheduled for the spring.

Last year, the 24-year-old Swiss finished third in Eurovision where he had “the chance to be validated by the international jury” who ranked him first.

"After being propelled so high, I finally found the sort of legitimacy I was looking for, but I was also terrified because I was like, 'So what?'

“, he confides to

.

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His fears were justified.

He deplores having made certain “bad encounters” which made him doubt himself.

“Music is still an industry, there is money at stake, he recalls.

I knew I had to be careful, which involves losing a bit of trust in others, and little by little, I locked myself into something where I was also losing confidence in myself.

»

The dream director

For several months, he searched for the right director to work on his first opus.

“I couldn't find anyone who wanted to record me with my band, giving me the artistic freedom I expected to enjoy,” continues Gjon's Tears.

He ended up contacting the collaborator of his dreams, the Briton Tim Bran.

“He has produced albums by artists that touch me like Birdy, Paul McCartney, Aurora.

London Grammar too, which in terms of sound and what I'm looking for, speaks to me a lot, underlines the singer.

I contacted him as a last resort.

We spoke via Zoom four days later.

He immediately accepted that I record with my group.

I had to make him repeat it because I didn't believe it.

It was so simple, fluid, in understanding.

Two weeks later, I went to his place in London to record part of the titles, the other was recorded at the Studios de la Seine in Paris.

»

In the meantime, Gjon's Tears, who was revealed in 2019 in

, of which he was a semi-finalist, participated in the "all stars" edition of TF1's telecrochet.

Taping of the blind auditions took place in the fall of 2020, and the live shows were scheduled a year later.

Eurovision was inserted halfway between the two deadlines.

The artist had carefully prepared his career plan.

"Just because you sing well doesn't necessarily mean you write well," Zazie told him.

“When Bruno Berberes, the casting director of

, offered me to participate in the

, I set two conditions.

I asked him to help me find a label [he has since joined Jo & Co, the stable of Claudio Capéo, Hoshi and Les Frangines] and to tell me who the coaches would be.

When he let me know that there would be Zazie, it was easy for me to say yes.

»

The Swiss is a great admirer of the French author, composer and performer.

Joy: she selected him in her team.

He always wanted to work with her but however waited to leave the telecrochet, on the threshold of the final, to let her know his intentions.

"Very frankly, which I appreciated, she was like, 'Send me a song and we'll see.'

It's not because you sing well that you write and compose necessarily well.

He then sent her the model of a title he had composed and written in English and which he hoped she would sign the transposition into French.

She contacted him the same evening, convinced.

“For a week, we called each other every day, for hours.

We talked about everything and anything, he says.

While I was recording in London, she sent me the first version of the text which stuck with me, there was not even a need to rework it.

" In October, behind the scenes of

, it was Zazie who was full of praise for his protege: "He has an extraordinary voice and he is a very good composer.

He sent me two three models, just piano voice, I fell!

»

"I know I won't live in Paris forever"

The title on which she put her pen is called

.

It will appear on the album, which will mix songs in English and French.

“There will be different styles, different influences, he promises.

I want when you hear my songs you say 'it reminds me of something from the 1980s, the 1960s…'”

Gjon's Tears does not want to forbid anything.

clip

, he absolutely wanted Geraldine Chaplin to make an appearance.

“My label was surprised by this choice.

I love the story she represents, for the sake of her father, Charlie Chaplin, and her filmography where she wandered from Almodovar [

] to

, explains- he.

She is there, almost everywhere, but not there to take the place of the other.

And then, there is something super innocent, very motherly, that seeks comfort in her eyes.

»

Installed for a few months in the center of Paris, Gjon ensures to feel good there.

He likes this “super active capital, where a lot of things are happening”.

But he warns: "I know I'm not here forever.

Perhaps he will return to Switzerland, because "the simplicity of [his] life in the countryside and [his] friends [he] misses", or else he will move to Madrid, a city he adore.

"My music speaks a lot in Spain," he says.

His career, he imagines it international.

In

, he sings: "Now I can believe in myself, feathers have cast off my back.

Gjon's Tears is ready to take flight.

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