“I am one of the little people”, says Claudio Capéo

• Rose des vents

  , Claudio Capéo's new album, was released on November 25.

• One of the seventeen songs celebrates the "little people", to whom he considers himself close.

  
  

  "I like their values, [at home], there is a lot of truth and sharing," he told

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• Claudio Capéo shares a duet with Slimane who, like him, participated in season 5 of The Voice: “We have always remained united.

  We call each other regularly.

  He was the first person I could actually talk to when it started to work.

  (…) There were those times when I was not well at all and he was always there and vice versa.

  We are real friends.

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After an album of covers of standards from the Italian repertoire,

, released two years ago, Claudio Capéo made his comeback at the end of November with

.

In this new opus, he focuses on France, which he celebrates in the opening song,

, where he declaims: "I like your Burgundy wines which tell me stories, Your little ones piquettes which knock and smell good the soil.

Over the course of the seventeen songs, he lets it be understood that he is an ordinary man, with his feet on the ground, close to the concerns of the majority.

In an interview with

, he insists: "I feel like I belong to the 'little people'".

Even if you collaborated with several authors, you were particularly involved in the writing of this album.

Why ?

This time I had time.

With the tours, I found it difficult to ask myself to write things.

I had a lot of ideas in mind, of melodies…

, for example, is a title that is more than five years old.

I've had it in my dictaphone for years and never really dared to take it out.

is a song that was composed during my trip to the Vercors for

...

You pay homage in song to “little people”… Is that a way of saying that success hasn't gone to your head?

I live all the time in the same village, in Alsace.

My neighbors are peasants.

I grew up there.

These people who get up at 4 a.m. and put their hands in the dirt or the earth carry the world.

They are the ones who write the sequel.

I still feel part of the “little people” because I'm still close to them, that's what I like, that I like their values, that there is a lot of truth and sharing.

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Is that possible, despite notoriety and gold records?

But of course !

Afterwards, there are two different lives.

The one where I am in Paris, where I turn in taxis, where I go in all directions, in big houses, crazy things… But there is also a more down to earth life when I am in my countryside.

I chop wood for my parents, I'm home, I have my friends.

It's this very simple life, which is mine, and which makes me feel good.

I always need to come back to the source.

How do you respond to cynical minds who would call you naïve?

Nothing at all !

I know I'm naive and I'm proud to be a little bit once in a while.

I play on it.

I don't want to parasitize my mind, I want to bring a little bit of levity.

Everything is cool.

If they don't like me, it doesn't matter, I like them anyway.

It's no use getting angry.

In

Younger yes, because I didn't think enough.

When I got angry, I was able to say completely stupid things.

Over time, I settled down, I reflect more and, before saying something, I try to make it concise and that each word is weighed.

My outspokenness is generally to bring something positive to the person.

I don't say negative things that will make her sink lower.

When a friend does something stupid or there is something wrong in the street, we try to help.

We have to be together, damn it.

There may be a little naivety in that, but it doesn't matter, I've been preaching it for a long time, I like it.

You share

We have always remained united since

.

We call each other regularly.

Slimane was the first person I could actually talk to when it started to work.

It was the same for him.

We found ourselves on promo at the same time, we were partying together, we needed to see each other, to talk to each other, to tell each other that what was happening to us was crazy.

We could tell each other everything.

Afterwards, there were those times when I was not doing well at all and he was always there and vice versa.

We are real friends.

After seven years, we thought it could be fun to make a song.

Our audience has been asking for this for a long time.

We found ourselves in the studio, the recording lasted barely a quarter of an hour.

Anecdotally, when I listened to my copy of the album at home, when the intro started, I wondered what this song was.

one take, it was mixed and then we received it like that.

The difficult moment you are talking about is when, following the success of the first album, in 2016, you thought of stopping everything?

It was a whole.

I felt very tired.

I had reached the end, I was a little lost, I wondered what I was doing, what had happened in recent years.

I simply needed to ask myself to think, to breathe, to be in my Alsace.

The confinement allowed me to return to the base, to be with my family, surrounded by people I love, I recharged my batteries.

Moreover, by being open-hearted, by listening to people's misfortune, by trying to understand them, to help them… I ended up wondering when I was going to think about myself and settle down a little bit.

Today is much better.

We have to talk, it's important.

You were recently on the

fan

when I was younger.

At the time, I didn't want to be a singer or a musician at all, I was just secretly in love with Jenifer.

When I was called to participate, I was happy and honoured.

I sang with Anisha.

She is a wonderful little woman, I adored her.

She is very sweet, she has a very strong soul.

She has a lot of heart, it feels good in this job.

His victory did not surprise you?

No, I suspected it without being sure because the other candidates also had talent.

They were a little more serious, they had more rage.

Anisha was more reserved, in her corner.

I was hoping it wasn't playing tricks on him.

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