French singer Joyce Jonathan received, on Thursday June 27, season 5 of the expertise present Cheng Feng, the Chinese language equal of the Star Academywithin the metropolis of Changsha. The one French lady to participate on this girls’s competitors broadcast by Mango TV, she triumphed towards the 36 preliminary candidates. The one European nonetheless within the remaining, she confided to the Parisian : “We’re solely girls over 30, already with an expert background. I’m in competitors with different singers, actresses and TV presenters who’re well-known of their nation.”
The journey Cheng Feng (or Trip the Wave, actually “surf the wave”) lasted 4 months, throughout which the singer of Women of right now adopted an intense work schedule: “Twelve days in China, one week in France, twelve days in China…,” she defined. “It was extraordinarily intense and demanding. We labored 22 hours a day, sleeping solely two hours an evening. I usually cried from exhaustion, I used to be sick simply earlier than a efficiency, I noticed white, I threw up…”
To say that Joyce Jonathan stepped out of her consolation zone is an understatement. Except for a rendition ofTo the Champs Elysees by Joe Dassin, she solely sang in Mandarin. “Taking part in the piano reside and singing in Mandarin on a brand new music was a possibility to problem myself as soon as once more,” she wrote a couple of days in the past on Instagram following a duet efficiency.
Supported by Gabriel Attal, her associate at school
The singer additionally obtained encouragement and congratulations from Gabriel Attal, with whom she had skilled “a school love affair”, as she confided to the journal Elle final January. The Prime Minister recorded a video of assist by which he expressed his “pleasure”. “You will have a beautiful journey, you’ll shine, as I do know you. It’s a nice expertise to reside. And above all, it’s a very good message despatched, as we have fun this yr the sixtieth anniversary of diplomatic relations Franco-Chinese language. It is a magnificent message, you’re bringing this Franco-Chinese language friendship to life by collaborating on this Cheng Feng 2024 program. Excellent journey and I’m totally behind you”, he added.
Joyce Jonathan will not be unknown in China, a rustic that has fascinated her “since she was little”. “I have been going there for fifteen years, I’ve had a supervisor there, I have been sowing little seeds by releasing all my data and doing live shows yearly. 4 years in the past, I sang at tv for Chinese language New 12 months.” Nevertheless, Cheng Feng and its “13.5 billion views per season throughout Asia” have taken its fame to a brand new degree: “Followers are ready for me outdoors the lodge, it is loopy! On the airport, the police ask for my autographs, the flight attendants acknowledge me, it is humorous.” In line with The ParisianJoyce Jonathan will quickly return to China: following a summer season tour in France, she’s going to return to the Center Kingdom in September for a pageant, adopted by seven live shows in November.
