Alice Taglioni has shared her life with Laurent Delahousse for more than 12 years. And the lovebirds don’t hesitate to be honest with each other, even if it sometimes means shaking each other up a little…
Alice Taglioni has been playing the piano since she was very young, but there was little question for her of making it a career… until something clicked which led her today to release her first album, DNA, available on 5 June.
Alice Taglioni, cropped by Laurent Delahousse: “He saw me unhappy”
The one who will celebrate her 50th birthday on July 26 hesitated for a long time before authorizing herself to release an album, which she considered to be madness. “I said to myself: ‘It’s ridiculous to get into something like this, I’m too old‘”, the actress confided to Gala. Fortunately, the piano enthusiast has “changed your mind“and admits that”this sentence is so stupid“.
An awareness that she had in part thanks to her partner, Laurent Delahousse, who pushed her to get out of her comfort zone and show her talent as a musician to the general public. “He said to me: ‘We hear you playing the piano all day long but there’s something wrong. Music is made to make people happy. I don’t understand. It’s selfish to keep your compositions to yourself. Why don’t you share it with others?’ explained the actress.
A sentence that resonated with her, particularly because the mother of Swann, 10 years old, and Lino, 6 years old, knows that Laurent Delahousse, with whom she has been in a relationship for 12 years, knows her better than anyone. “We’re talking about a man who loves me and saw me as unhappy staying in ‘I should’ mode but who is demanding, honest and very musical, even if he didn’t learn music.“, explained the actress, before adding: “He wouldn’t have said that if he didn’t feel it deeply“.
Alice Taglioni, belittled: “Look what you didn’t achieve”
It was at the age of 4 that Alice Taglioni fell in love with the piano, which was a family affair. “My mother, herself a pianist, and my grandmother, an organist, took my vocation in hand and I let myself be carried away. When we played family concerts, everyone was entitled to their wrong notes, except me“, she said.
The young teenager already dreamed of being a concert artist and practiced her art for four to six hours a day. But this dream ended up being trampled on during a competition she took at 19 years old. While she was playing Liszt, the jury interrupted her by pointing out that she had more of a place as a model.
“At that moment, the music hurt me. I couldn’t go see soloists in concert anymore, I said to myself: ‘look what you didn’t achieve‘”, she remembered before qualifying: “From the moment I understood that it was not my ambition that I was pursuing, but that of others, there was no more disappointment, no more failure.“. Today, the circle has come full circle since the musician has finally emerged in the eyes of the public.
