I am a man, Rue de la Paix, Zen… These are Zazie’s songs that have made her an essential artist in the French song industry. A great career that she was able to combine with a family life. At 59, the singer is the mother of a daughter named Lola, whom she had with musician Fabien Cahen in 2002.
A family life that allowed her to keep her feet on the ground, as she had entrusted to our colleagues from Current Woman. “When you’ve done a tour and you come home and you hear: ‘Zazie! Zazie!’ Honestly, you’re a little bit pissed off, there are no other words. Then they say to you: ‘Can you take out the trash please?'”, she explained. Separated from the father of her daughter in 2005, Zazie had to make some adjustments to reconcile her life as an artist and a mother. She then had to “claim her producer to set her concert dates only every other week”.
“I was no longer with his dad. This organization was not negotiable, otherwise I was not shooting. These concessions had a cost because the trucks and logistics are forced to be put on hold. And that means say that the benefits that can be drawn from a tour are lower“, she declared, as relayed by Purepeople. Subsequently, Zazie had found love in the arms of musician Philippe Paradis. A love story that ended in 2015. “I had written most of the texts before the separation and we worked together for seven years before being lovers”, she explained in Le Matin in 2015 about of his new album and to add: “It’s true that if the album looks a bit like our last child, we don’t stop being parents because we stop loving”.
Today, Zazie is the delight of TF1 as a jury for the new season of The Voice alongside Amel Bent, Vianney and Bigflo and Oli. Planet invites you to discover his youthful photos in our slideshow.
