Sheila was a resounding success in the 1960s. But she has long been lowered and silenced while she lost “colossal sums” …
Jean-Marie Périer is known for his legendary photos of the stars of the 1960s, but also for his outspokenness. Recently, he told how Sheila, now 79, had been manipulated by her entourage in her young years …
Sheila, scammed: this contract which she had to accept “by keeping the silence”
On the occasion of the release of a special Sheila number of Schnocka review dedicated to pop culture from the 1960s to 1990, the brother-in-law of Michel Sardou published a portrait of the star of the Yeyés taken by him. And the least we can say is that the legend is salty. “She (Sheila, editor’s note) came, like many of those years, from a popular environment like Françoise Hardy or Eddy Mitchell and therefore did not have the keys to this environment”first contextualized Jean-Marie Périer about the interpreter of The school is finished that he describes as one “Of the three most popular singers of the 60s”. Before evoking, without ever quoting it, Claude Carrère, the producer who managed Sheila’s career until 1982.
“The latter had certainly led him to success, but on two conditions, first that she follows his decisions concerning her look, her clothes, her hairstyles and preferably to silence. And above all that she agrees to sign a contract stipulating that he would pay it in the month during the next thirty years”he explains then.
Sheila, “like a toy between the soud fingers of a guy”
And the 85 -year -old photographer to get annoyed afterwards: “Without can never have the floor or see a penny of the colossal sums which entered the society of the man (…) It is I believe at the start of the ‘disco’ period that she could start having fun and really earning her life “.
This is not the first time that Jean-Marie Périer attacks this same producer. Already in March 2023, he had published another portrait of Sheila, then aged 22, detailing: “His team did not give him the freedom to have fun. This same part of nothing was found in the hands of a guy, certainly effective, but which considered it a toy between her soud fingers”. This already had the merit of being clear!
