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Already unique at the time of its discovery in the Star Academy 2, fifteen years ago, Nolwenn Leroy combines today the success and motherhood, without compromise…

ss=” text-justify”>In the offices of Mercury, its house of disks, we observe the phenomenon, without explaining it or trying to control it. He escapes to the predictions, defies the laws of the society of the spectacle. At the approach of his thirty-five years, celebrated this September 28, Nolwenn Leroy is a woman and an artist, accomplished : his sixth opus of the Gem, revealed at the beginning of the month after five years of latency, shimmers at the top of the top albums. A glow, all the more remarkable that the promotion of the disc has been reduced to the essential : signatures, public and television appearances.

This idea of scarcity has been discussed with his director of marketing, Thibaut Gerhardt, last spring, has also become a necessity. The mother of a little Marine from the 13th of July last, Nolwenn prioritizes its obligations, and minute of its travel, with as much will as feat. Baby under one arm, she takes it to the live of the funny situations, such as the interruption of a signing session in a full-centre culturel E. Leclerc to pull his milk. The dance of the vanities in paris do the stuns. The Sainte-Victoire mountain has replaced the Sacred Heart, at her window. Silhouette once seen at the foot of Montmartre, it resides today in Aix-en-Provence, the hometown of former tennis player Arnaud Clement, his companion for nearly ten years. There are lucky accidents.

Crowned ” star academic “ of TF1, a sacred double-edged sword, the singer has taken shortcuts in order to pick and braiding other laurels. Its stiffness in the face of Christine Angot, who reproached him his lack of asperities on the plateau ofOne is not lying, at the beginning of September, was less the expression of a morgue than a refusal to let themselves be beheaded once more. Martyrdom or emmerdeuse ? The two may be. With thanks always. Her scars are her most beautiful finery. Abandoned by his father, former footballer Jean-Luc Le Magueresse, at the age of ten years, Nolwenn reject the injustice that determinism.

This is an adventuress, in her own way. After a first album released on the drawers of Pascal Obispo and his team, the singer was discovered on natural history with Laurent Voulzy, dreamer, fan of medieval legends and pop british as she. After the failure of her third album, The Cheshire Cat and me, says too much folk, she brushed the dictates of marketing with Brittany and O daughters of the water, two huge success (over 1.3 million copies sold, more than 400 000 for the other). Olivier de Kersauson was blessed in the pages of Paris Match. Miossec and Jean-Louis Murat, artists demanding, offered him titles. The songs of Gem – with the exception of two adaptations of poems by Edgar Allan Poe – are the same ink, the siena.

Nolwenn has doubted it. Songs, written with the desire to please, are parties to the baille. Too easy, not his gender. The young woman went to get the producer Jamie Ellis (Adele, Florence and the Machine…), on the other side of the Channel. The recording of their songs – lullabies for Marine, another ” gem ” hidden in the belly of the artist – was completed in April. In the satisfaction, but also a sense of urgency. Three weeks prior to his birth, despite the warnings of his physician, and the fears of its house of disks, Nolwenn Leroy oversaw even the final mixes, Paris. Were shooting the video for her first single in Lozère, in the cave of the Aven Armand, a place that she loves since childhood. And, in a last effort, recorded the show friends first for France 2, to Quimper.

Assisted by his mother, into the care of the artwork of his albums and booklets of the tour, the young mother sketch today the contours of a new life. Attempted by a chair of juror in the show The Voice, she preferred to continue in his way…

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Read the full about us “Nolwenn Leroy: the success of a insubordinate” in the magazine Gala, on newsstands this Wednesday, September 27.

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