Solène Delinger 12:19 p.m., November 28, 2022
Claudio Capéo was the guest of "Sept à Huit" Sunday November 27 on TF1.
The singer, back with a new album, "Rose des vents", revealed that he had a hard time managing his dazzling success after the release of his hit "Un Homme Debout", in 2016. He explains that he felt " drowned" and having thought about suicide several times.
"I didn't come home anymore, I didn't see my wife or my kids. I was losing my mind."
Interviewed by Audrey Crespo-Mara in
Seven to Eight
on Sunday November 27 on TF1, Claudio Capéo confided, without filter, on his difficult management of success.
"I didn't feel legitimate"
The 37-year-old artist, who for a long time sang in the subway with his accordion, became known thanks to his participation in
The Voice
, in 2016. A producer spotted him and then called him just after his elimination from the tele-hook .
"He tells me, I love your voice, I love what you are, I love what you do, I would like us to write a song together", remembers Claudio Capéo on TF1.
After this call, everything accelerates.
Claudio Capéo releases his first single, a hit that makes him famous:
Un Homme Debout.
His eponymous album,
Claudio Capéo,
allows the singer to find his audience.
Platinum record then gold record, the accordionist performs concerts all over France.
Everything is going very fast, a little too fast.
Claudio Capéo sinks into depression.
The singer no longer recognizes himself, does not understand why everyone adores him.
"I couldn't stand it at all, because I had a hard time accepting it. Once again, I didn't feel legitimate about all this," he confides.
"I didn't even think about my kids anymore"
The singer no longer finds meaning in his life and thinks on several occasions of ending his life.
"I was afraid of screwing myself up… I was a bastard at that time because I was not even thinking about my kids anymore, because I was drowned…", he recalls.
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Six years after his descent into hell, Claudio Capéo has found a balance in his life.
He still lives with his wife, whom he met when he was 18.
The lovers and their two sons moved to the village where Claudio Capéo grew up.
"I consider myself today as a 'little people'. I am still Alsatian, I am still in my little countryside, I am chopping my wood, picking walnuts in the fields, I am in my little life normal, where you need nothing to be happy", says the artist who also wants to help his wife, a florist.
He helps her in particular to deliver the flowers "because I love that, it's very important".
Today, Claudio Capéo has decided to see music as a "game".
"I know very well that I work, that it's important, but I just want to do it as I am," he concludes.