We were at Santa’s “Very Very Private Concert” for RTL and we won’t soon forget it! “Freewheeling”, the singer chained moments of emotion, jokes and unexpected events…
“Even stronger!“, exclaims Santa as she arrives, full of energy, in the RTL studio for a Very very private concert, a format live which allows 80 privileged listeners to enjoy a show in intimacy with the artist. The percussions resound, the audience gets agitated, her fans, her “piracy” as she likes to call them, responded. The show promises to be unforgettable…
Santa makes us vibrate: his song dedicated to Christophe Willem
The artist may be full of energy, but she admits to being a little stressed at the idea of the concert being broadcast live on RTL! “This puts me in a total panic, but delighted if you pass me in your car“, she blurted out before declaring to the audience: “It’s a little stressful to see your faces, but you give me a lot of warmth“. A refreshing sincerity.
Then, the words of his song Eva resound, and, carried by the audience, the singer, spontaneous to say the least, ends her performance by standing on the piano: “It wasn’t planned, I wasn’t supposed to do it“. It is then a song of friendship that she decides to present to the public, The tears, taken from his first solo album, Start me again. A very special title since it was written for his faithful friend, Christophe Willem.
The song that overwhelms her: “At the last concert, I couldn’t perform it calmly…”
Comes the turn of Salted Popcorn, the title that revealed Santa to the general public. “It’s thanks to this song that I am here, that this year was incredible and since then, sometimes it overwhelms me. At the last concert, I couldn’t perform it calmly, I was so moved“, she admits.
The first time she performed it was on this same stage, in the RTL studios, about two years ago. She had “so nervous” that she had asked her pianist to play it for her. Now, time has passed and Santa feels capable of taking the helm. After this suspended moment, full of communion with the spectators who knew the words of this hit from heart, she sings a surprising mash-up of pieces White Paradise by Michel Berger and Disenchanted by Mylène Farmer.
Santa, “freewheeling”: “When I’m stressed…”
Then, the whole audience claps their hands in union on its title The differencewhich will be his next single. “It’s my favorite song“, she confides to the spectators. Still a little stressed, the former member of the group Hyphen Hyphen takes the audience aside and makes jokes… in a Quebec accent. “I’m freewheeling! When I’m a little stressed, I make jokes“.
It’s on the very dynamic song Start me againanthem of this season of Star Academy, as the show ends. The singer, who is also invited to the bonus of the show on January 11, takes the time to go around the studio to hug several spectators and even invites them to go on stage with her to enjoy these moments. “Thanks piracy “, she blurted before slipping away. One, two, three… Shall we start again?
The Very Very Private concerts are live from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. and replayed in audio and video on RTL2.fr.
