Paul’O, candidate for season 10 of The Voice. – TF1 / ITV / Bureau233
- Paul’O was qualified by his coach Vianney during the knockouts. from season 10 of The Voice.
- The 31-year-old singer created the emotion by resuming Tell me, when will you come back ? by Barbara. “I was in a sort of trance, it’s as if I had written the text, as if I was the song, ”he tells 20 minutes.
- Paul’O is committed to defending the classics of the French repertoire in the telecrochet. “I rarely hear songs on the radio that have so much impact, of coarse beauty, true and sincere. Keeping the roughness and that truth is important, ”he says.
Amel Bent, Marc Lavoine had tears in their eyes. Saturday on TF1, Paul’O won his ticket for the next stage of this tenth stage of The Voice thanks to its takeover of Tell me, when will you come back? (at
discover here). A performance “exceptional”, judged Vianney, who was nonetheless moved, this success of Barbara reminding him of his grandmother.
“When I saw the emotion of the coaches, I told myself that I had done the work and served the song, explains the thirty-something. I was in a kind of trance, it’s like I wrote the text, like I was the song. It is an understatement to say that his interpretation was embodied: his deep voice and his gaze seemed to support every word.
Since the beginning of the telecrochet, Paul’O has marked the spirits by resuming I’m taking you to the wind by Louise Attaque, but above all, during blind auditions, Weapons by Léo Ferré.
“A lot of songs tend to be smoothed out today”
“There is very little chance that I will be heard singing Lady Gaga, there are those who do it very well, who have the vocal power, the will … Singing in English to make yogurt is not not my thing at all, ”he confirms. If he considers himself “far from being a standard-bearer”, he is keen to defend French song, songs “which convey emotions through words”, the classics of the repertoire.
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“I rarely hear songs on the radio that have so much impact, of coarse beauty, true and sincere. A lot of things tend to be smoothed out today. Keeping the roughness and that truth is important. Paul’O doesn’t just sing other people’s words. He writes and composes for his group Brin d’Zinc with which he walks, apart from a health crisis, the bars of Finistère. The Voice opened up a wider audience to them: “People come to see what we’re doing, are very pleasantly surprised and it’s great for us. “