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If Calogero has an impressive career behind him, this was not always the case. Guest on RTL, this Sunday, December 15, 2024, the singer returned to a very difficult moment that he experienced when he started out. But fortunately, he was able to count on the unwavering support of Pascal Obispo, who managed to get him out of a very difficult period.
“I didn’t have a penny left”: How Pascal Obispo saved Calogero
He continues his tour A.M.O.UR Tour. Saturday December 14, 2024, was in concert in Amiens during which he performed his greatest hits but also discovered the titles of his latest album X. The next day, the singer was on the airwaves of RTL to discuss his immense career but also the way it helped him in a difficult moment. Indeed, before experiencing dazzling notoriety, Calogero encountered a crossing of the desert: “At the time, I had, in the eyes of people in the trade, a bit of leprosy. Pascal Obispo said ‘I know this guy’. I knew him in the 90s, he was not signed (in collaboration with a record company, editor’s note). He is older than me but I was already known and he was not”remembers the singer in front of Eric Jeanjean. “He remembered me, he called my friend Delphine Benattar, my friend with whom I lived, and said to her, ‘what the hell is he doing?’ says the one who separated from , the mother of two of his children, Pio, born December 4, 2013, and Rita, born in April 2016.
Calogero, in the “galley”, was able to see his career saved by Pascal Obispo
A confidence that pushes the host to ask him a crucial question: “But were you in a bit of trouble at that time?” To which Calogero will respond: “But completely in trouble and I didn’t have a penny left. Pascal said: ‘I’m sure, if we give him confidence again…’. Delphine organizes a meeting. We met again, it had been 10 years since I had seen him again and he said to me ‘ok let’s go, I’ll support you and do your songs’”. The rest, we know it. This is not the first time that the interpreter of 1987, confides in this story. Indeed, last year, on the set ofAs an asidehe returned to the way Pascal Obispo, who had saved his career: “He acted as artistic director and it was an extraordinary period because he was a bit like someone from my family putting me back on the path of my influences”indicated
Grateful for the friendship and help provided by Pascal Obispo, who Calogero also imagined the turn his career would have taken if he had not been supported by his friend: “I imagined it, but I never confided it”he begins by indicating. “But when you’re an adult, if you say too much that you’re in trouble, it can influence people, who love you too, and so it’s better to keep quiet, do what you need to do to get better and small. little by little, the shit goes away”.
