Actress Alice Taglioni tries her hand at singing and composing with the album “ADN”. She is the culture guest on franceinfo, Saturday June 14.
This text corresponds to part of the transcription of the interview above. Click on the video to watch it in full.
Isabelle Layer: We know her and we love her as an actress. And you will see, our guest of the day is also a great musician. Hello Alice Taglioni, we are delighted to welcome you for your first album. His name is ADN. These are classic compositions leaning towards jazz, electro and pop. It’s very open. Your DNA, the title of this album, is music. You started at the age of 4. Did you want to be a musician-pianist?
Alice Taglioni : I studied piano for a very long time. I come from a family of musicians, music lovers. I went to the Conservatory, I did very advanced studies. Did I want to be a pianist? Yes. Did I want to be a concert pianist in the classical repertoire? I felt that there was something else that attracted me. At one point, I also decided to stop studying at the conservatory, to stop playing the piano. In any case, the piano, the regular work, the classical repertoire. That’s how I enrolled in a theater class, and discovered my profession as an actress. This is what my job was and which led me despite everything to this album ADN. Because in any case, music and cinema are two fields that come together and I think that one cannot live without the other. So all of this is quite complementary and logical.
(…) We also discover that you sing. This is the album of all challenges.
It was important. It’s not just the piano. In any case, the voice was a discovery too. It came at a certain moment with texts, it also freed me from something and it led me towards something else. So yes, I really like singing. I admit, I really like singing.
You have always played too, you have composed film scores, you have participated in festivals. But this is the first time you’re here, release your album, you have to take responsibility. I understand that it was not as simple as that. What happened?
Nobody stopped me from doing anything. The only person is me. That is to say that yes, in life, we have a form of requirement. In any case, where I come from, there was a requirement. That was obvious. Then afterward, there are the barriers we put on ourselves, and all these things we prohibit ourselves from doing.
What were the fears?
The fears were not being able to live up to what I had learned. I grew up with a classical, phenomenal repertoire, and with a demand for harmonies, between Bach, Ravel and everything in between. You feel a little small, so I didn’t allow myself that. I kept it to myself, and it’s true that at one point, which did me good, I said to myself: “Who knows, maybe this could do good for others.” There were social networks that helped me. I talk about it a lot, because it helped me a lot. People’s comments, very kind, and instead of talking about me and what I could project as an image, my job, for films, adverts, finally the image, we really talked about… It’s as if someone recognized me, somewhere. So that was wonderful and it gave me confidence.
You posted extracts of songs, they reacted to that, is that it?
Yes, that’s it. And even now, the people who listen to this album and who give me such lovely feedback, I say to myself: “Okay, that’s it, it’s also that, in fact.” It’s talking with others, music, it brings people together, so that’s what I think I wanted to do too.
All your doubts, Alice, you shared with the artist Myope. He wrote down on paper what you had inside you. He put them to your music. These doubts too, this song is about the moment when you pass the stage of doubt and you take action. What was the famous trigger to really take action?
First of all, it’s not having been alone anymore. Because alone, it’s not easy. In any case, I need support. I needed to structure things. So it was great to be able to talk about my life with Thibaut Barbillon, so Myope. Indeed, he put his rhythm, his voice, and then, we co-created the album and the pieces that I play on the piano. He helped me structure everything.
I’m more afraid, I’m less afraid. And everything is said, in fact, in Synthesis. This is what allowed me, in this first piece, to go where I wanted. In fact, that’s what I’ve often been told. I was told: “In fact, you say so many things that it’s great, it gives you incredible freedom. And to move towards all types of music, towards composition, but also towards cinema music, it’s all these things that make it my DNA. And I said earlier, cinema, music, it’s very linked. I was extremely touched by cinema music at a very young age. I think a lot about Philippe Sarde, who inspired me a lot. classical piano or personal composition. Once again, it’s this desire to share.
Ultimately, anything is possible. Finally, did he teach you this album about yourself?
That the limits, the barriers we encounter are often those we put on ourselves. We must listen to the people who love us and try to listen less to those who always have opinions, but who are not always the most caring.
Because it will speak to a lot of people. I remember the title of the album, it’s called ADNit is digital, therefore available on all platforms.
