As he announces his return with a new album, singer Christophe Willem confided to the “Parisian” about his new life between France and this foreign country where he now has a house.
It’s the return of “La Tortue” aka Christophe Willem. The former winner of New Star will release an album in a few months before returning to the stage for a tour planned for 2027. The opportunity for him to take stock in an interview with The Parisian.
Christophe Willem lives today between two continents: “I made the decision”
Questioned by the daily, the singer, now 42 years old – who is releasing a new single entitled Systaime – feels very good in his shoes since he passed the forties mark. At ease in his career as in his personal life, Christophe Willem rejects the fear that often sticks to us. “You shouldn’t just be a spectator of your life. I try more and more to force myself not to be. My best example is Brazil. I love this country. I dreamed of having a house of my own there. At one point I made the decision“, he confided.
The singer of the hits Double I And Jacques said, who now has long, graying hair, adds: “I sold my beautiful house in Val-d’Oise (in Deuil-la-Barre). I took a smaller accommodation here, which allowed me to buy another one there. I made this dream come true. People around me didn’t understand. But suddenly I decided to trust myself and not be afraid.” From now on, he lives between two continents.
Christophe Willem fan of his second adopted country
It is therefore thousands of kilometers from France that Christophe Willem spends several months a year. And this has been going on for several years. He discovered Rio exactly 10 years ago. “I was going to Rio for the Olympics, and I was going there a little reluctantly (…) I was going there to fulfill my obligations, not necessarily for pleasure. When I arrived there, I was doubly surprised, it was even stronger, I was really taken by this city. I fell in love with this place“, he confided to Purecharts.
“This country is for me a snapshot of the state of the world, we see the worst and the best, enormous wealth and extreme poverty. Everything coexists there with a kind of anarchy and we feel the power of nature.“, he also confided in Les Echos.
