While she is a Quebec song star, Isabelle Boulay has faced many criticisms. So much so that she was downright asking her to put her on the backstil …
At 53, singer Isabelle Boulay can boast of having an exceptional career, with more than 4.5 million albums sold worldwide. Guest in the Canadian Radio show Draw me one morningshe returned with humor to a youth anecdote that literally left her speechless.
Isabelle Boulay, cash on the reason for her sidelining: “I am unsuitable“”
Small, Isabelle Boulay was regularly sidelined in the choirs. “”I was getting out of the choirs because I am unsuitable“, She admitted Hilare. Her harm? An too powerful voice, impossible to melt in the choir.”Then I sang stronger than all the others“She explained Cash. Faced with this” volume problem “, the solution found by its supervisors was unusual to say the least:”I was asked to be cod“, that is to say to pretend to sing. An artisanal playback that little Isabelle Boulay had accepted with philosophy.”I am like volume, like ‘on’, ‘off’“She summed up with self-mockery.
And this instruction really marked it for life! Even today, not the slightest religious song in Quebec’s shows. Not by artistic choice … but because she could never really sing them! “”There are no church songs because I have never sang them for real“, She said, pushing the nail. The most ironic? She knows all the words of these songs.”I know them by heart“, She said. Like what,” making the cod “, it leaves traces.
Isabelle Boulay: “I couldn’t live without … “
The partner of the famous penalist lawyer and former minister Éric Dupond-Moretti never hid how essential music was in his life. “”I am lucky to sing “said the sparkling redhead. For her, “Singing is one of the most obvious things is one of the things that brought me the most satisfaction“. Impossible to do without this art, she knows it well:”I couldn’t live without the songs“.
The joyful singer also revealed to be a big shy and that the song was an outlet: “Sing for me is going to the other in a much simpler, obvious way“. She also explained that making her vocal cords vibrate allowed her to transmit messages that she might not express otherwise. According to her, singing is”A great rescue exit“whose value it measures every day:”I don’t know how I would have come out if I hadn’t sung“.
