While she has just left the adventure “Dals”, Julie Zenatti will publish her next album entitled “Le Chemin” on April 25. On this occasion, the singer gave an interview to the “Journal des Femmes”.
Discovery in the role of Fleur-de-Lys in Notre-Dame de ParisJulie Zenatti famous 25 years of career with her 9th album called The path, which comes out on April 25. Today author, composer and producer, the ex-candidate of Dance with stars Give itself as never and evokes in this new opus the faith in the broad sense, love, transmission, sharing but also forgiveness and acceptance … Interview for The Women’s Journal.
This April 25 is released your 9th album called The path. Why this title?
Julie Zenatti. I think he arrived before the songs. When I was offered to go sing in the churches, I had to go to these places which are absolutely not familiar to me. I am neither a believer nor Christian which did a lot (laughs). So I had to think about the place I could take in these places without offending anyone, being respectful of their history but also of my own identity. It seemed important to me to retrace my way and my way, it is that of a woman, a mother, a girl and that’s all I tell in the album.
You say you don’t have faith but do you believe in something in particular?
Julie Zenatti. I believe in something that exceeds us even if I have not yet made the way until what. The world in which we live is extremely violent, changes and hardens more and more. I do not believe in miracles, but I want to say that if we cling to something a little higher than power, money and religion, we can change things.
In this album as in others you also evoke love in the broad sense as well. Has your look at love changed?
Julie Zenatti. Love, to be able to give it, to be able to live it, you have to believe it. There is a form of faith ultimately in the fact of loving and accepting to be loved too because it is also a whole job. In this album, I speak of an obviously more serene love, a more duet love, which is not torn as evokes the song Vertical. You have to accept everything that life in pairs or the friendly life can bring, whether good or bad.
“We are not burying with our ingots!”
The album also talks about transmission. Is this an important concept for you?
Julie Zenatti. It is essential because I was given a lot. I was very lucky. I have parents who have been very present, who are still so. In my career, I met people who holded my hand and who allowed me to grow and evolve. It doesn’t make sense if you keep everything for yourself. As my father would say, we are not burying with our ingots! (laughs) I think it is important to be able to give as much as possible from what we have learned.
Is this a value you want to transmit to your two children aged 14 and 8?
Julie Zenatti. Of course it is the one I have been transmitted and it is important that they are connected to people and that they are aware of their environment and others. For me, education goes a lot through social relationships. It is important to take the time to understand the other, almost even before being yourself in front of the other. It is also important to be listening. Someone who tells himself you have to take it as a real gift and as an honor because it is not easy to indulge.
“I let my children go where they want to go”
Do your children want to follow your traces in music?
Julie Zenatti. They are still young. They are good enough for music but for the moment I let them go where they want to go and above all I do not ask them too many questions on tomorrow. They must already live the present moment! Adolescence is a complicated moment and I will not ask my 14 -year -old daughter what she wants to do next week! (laughs)
In this album, you are an author, composer and producer: is it important for you to be present at all steps?
Julie Zenatti. This is the way I understand my job. I want it to remain a passion and to be in doing so and not only in execution. Put your hands in the cuddly and be really a craftsman of his work gratifies me and gives me the impression of being in line with my personality. I don’t like to get to the end of the chain and ask for accounts. When you are present at all steps, you can blame anyone if it doesn’t go well.
At the end of the song My way You talk about the notion of forgiveness. Did you need to forgive something?
Julie Zenatti. I needed to forgive and forgive myself because sometimes you can be too demanding with you. I was exposed very young. I was looked at a lot and, when you are looked at a lot, you can get lost. We only exist through the gaze of the other and all eyes are not benevolent. I also wanted to forgive people who took too intimate things.
On April 24, you start a tour of the Churches of France in Paris. Do you understand singing in such places?
Julie Zenatti. I don’t project myself yet but I know I have the songs for that. That’s why I wanted to make a special album and not a best-of of my other 8 discs. I think I have the right songs to be able to tell them about an audience in a church. After I know there will be a lot of things that I will not control because there are so many history in the stones. I will have to adapt and I will be on a wire finally.
You have 25 years of career. How do you look on the path traveled?
Julie Zenatti. I tell myself that I had and I am still very lucky to have had a curious audience throughout my career and who has never really judged anything. Despite my road trips, he has always been there. This is what always allowed me to try to reinvent myself and continue to explore things musically. I tried, more or less well, to bring something different musically, not to let myself go in an ease because a song had worked. And that is thanks to the public. I was not shiny artistically and I think I had a career that looks like me.
