The general public discovered it in France has an unbelievable talent in 2008, when she was just 12 years old. Caroline Costa had climbed until the final of the M6 broadcast. Two years later, the young singer had released a single Who I am ? – which had reached fifteenth place in the Top 50 – then, in 2012, an album I will gobefore joining the troupe of the musical Robin Hood. At 25, the artist is making her return to the media scene: she will take part on Saturday in the third episode of the blind auditions of The Voice. The young woman, with a singsong accent from Tarn-et-Garonne, explains to 20 minutes why she chose to appear at the telecrochet of TF1.
It’s been a few years since the public has heard from you. What happened in the meantime?
Great things happened. After having lived a grandiose experience alongside formidable artists in the troupe of Robin HoodI released an album in 2017 [éponyme] which, as they say, has not really met its audience. I decided to move away from music… For three years, I have been the mother of a little Talia and I have devoted myself to this role to the fullest. I was the happiest and the most fulfilled, but deep down I felt that something was missing: the music. I missed her but I suppressed this idea to protect myself.
And you have decided to present yourself to the castings of “The Voice”…
A year ago, I dared to take myself in hand physically and musically. I contacted Bruno Berberes, the casting director of The Voice, to ask him when the call for applications for the castings would be open. I didn’t tell him it was for me. I didn’t know if I would have the guts. And then finally, I tried my luck.
You didn’t know if you’d have the guts: that is?
I haven’t sung for three years. I had cut all ties with the music to avoid suffering. It was a period of doubts, of personal questioning, of anguish. I was wondering if I was legit. AT The Voice, what counts is not the course or the image but only the voice. I wanted to test my legitimacy at the auditions by trying to see if I was still capable of moving people. It was a risk-taking, a desire to start from scratch, a kind of rebirth.
Of rebirth, squarely?
People knew me as a teenager, they will rediscover me as a woman. I say that when I became a mother, it was my second birth. The Voicethis is my third birth: the show has reignited all the lights in me.
Without telling us what was the result of your blind audition, did the experience confirm your desire to reconnect with music?
I have already won everything by having gone to pass this audition. My motto is to live in the moment, to savor every moment. This experience made me want to go back on stage. I had the impression of relearning everything: it motivates me a lot!