JULIEN DORE. Nominated for the Victoires de la musique 2022, Julien Doré made the choice several years ago to leave the capital.
Julien Doré, artist of the year 2022? This Friday, February 11, the interpreter of We is named in the flagship category of the ceremony, to try to win the fifth trophy of his career. The opportunity for us to take an interest in the life of the artist, who left Paris in 2018 to settle in the Cévennes, where he is from. A change of life for Julien Doré, who offered himself an old school in Marsillargues. A building that he renovated and where he grows various fruits and vegetables, evidenced by his Instagram account where he regularly publishes his crops and other cooking recipes. All surrounded, of course, by his two white Swiss shepherds, Simone and Jean-Marc.
“I decided two and a half years ago to change my life, to leave Paris to relocate to the South, in the Cévennes, where I was born”, confided Julien Doré to Paris Match in 2020. “Thanks to the music, I had achieved certain dreams that I had written down on a piece of paper. On this same piece of paper, I had things left ‘for my life as a man’, like ‘changing my life’ or ‘having two dogs’ (…) Waking up every morning in the place where I was born is seeing life through another prism. All the demons, pressures and ambitions linked to life in Paris no longer have a hold on me. me,” he adds. So that’s what I did.” Since then, Julien Doré has only returned to the capital to promote his music or perform in concert, notably for his latest album, loved.
“If someone had told me that I was 13 years after Nouvelle Star and it was almost a coincidence that I would be there with a fifth album and still this feeling of astonishment, impatience, immense luck to live my passion…” After almost three years of absence, Julien Doré unveiled his new opus in September 2020, called loved, a tribute to his grandmother and mother, two women whose struggles inspired him. “I chose this title because it is my construction. These are values - we could also talk about my mother’s fight to welcome battered women – these fights built me. I understood them and they are fights that I deeply respect”, confided the singer to RTL for the release of the disc.
This album, Julien Doré also wanted it committed: loved talk about global warming Fever Where Barracuda (I or II) or the migration crisis with song Lampedusa, this Italian island where thousands of migrants are stranded in the Mediterranean. All evoked sometimes in an ironic way, sometimes in a poetic way. Two ingredients that make Julien Doré’s style, who nevertheless returns in this new album to a resolutely pop atmosphere and even surprises with the disconcerting piece Bla bla bla featuring rappers Caballero and JeanJass.
To write and set this new album to music, Julien Doré left Paris to take refuge in his native South, where he now lives. “When I won Nouvelle Star 13 years ago, I took great pleasure in getting up in the morning to live from my passion. And, there was this dream in a corner, to return to live in the South, where I was born to, I hope, continue to live from my passion. I need this calm in the South and that’s where I write and where I wrote my songs”, confided the artist at RTL. And in the Cévennes, the singer can count on his two dogs, two white shepherds baptized Simone and Jean-Marc, which we hear on the title Waf.
“If the hearts are dirty, they must be cleaned.” On October 24, 2021, Julien Doré unveiled The lethal Weapona duet with Eddy de Pretto, announcing the reissue of his album loved. A melancholy single on the piano for the two darlings of French song, whose profits are donated, like those of loved again Julien Doré, to the association of Pink blouses, which works to help hospitalized children and the elderly.
The song fatal teare came out accompanied by its clip written and directed by Brice VDH and Julien Doré, where we discover the two accomplice singers around a piano in the semi-darkness, with always a touch of humor and self-mockery .
After the release of his fifth album, Aimee and its reissue, Julien Doré sets off again on the roads of France for a long concert salvo. His tour will begin on February 26, 2022 in Aix en Provence and will take him to Brussels on December 11, 2022. The artist will be in Paris for three dates at the AccorHotels Arena, on April 8, 9 and 10, 2022. these appointments in the four corners of the country is accessible in all the usual points of sale like Fnac Where Digitick.
Julien Doré was born in 1982 in Alès, in the Gard. Great-great-grandnephew of the famous illustrator Gustave Doré, his taste for the artistic seems predestined and it is quite naturally that he turns to music. After playing in the bars of the region with his various groups from 2002 to 2006, his solo career exploded in 2007 thanks to his victory on the TV show Crochet New star. Following this television springboard, his first album replacement was rewarded at the Victoires de la Musique 2009 in the Breakthrough Album of the Year category. The clip of his flagship song Limits already bears witness to his taste for directing.
He was thus offered a role in the cinema by Pascal Thomas in 2010 for Together we will live a very, very great love story alongside Marina Hands who will become his companion for three years. The same year, he was asked to compose the music for Judith Godrèche’s first film as a director, All the girls are crying. He is also behind the soundtrack of Holiday by Guillaume Nicloux. 2013 marks the year of his return to the screens since he is on the bill of Pop Redemption by Martin Le Gall but also by With us it’s three ! alongside Noémie Lvovsky and comedian Stéphane De Groodt.
On the musical side, Julien Doré has released five albums: replacement therefore, but also Bichon (2011), Lion (2013), & (2016) and loved (2020). An accomplished artist who has become a must in the French musical landscape, the singer has won four Victoires de la Musique.