Alice Taglioni, actress and pianist: “I would have loved to be part of a group of friends, but I was constantly reminded of my singularity”

Long before cinema, there was the piano. The one behind whom Alice Taglioni took refuge for a long time. The youngest of a Protestant family, born to parents of Italian and Spanish origins, she grew up in the Parisian suburbs between demands, a passion for music and a vague feeling of never really finding her place.

At the age of 19, a competition at the Conservatory shattered his dream of becoming a concert pianist. A remark about her physique – too advantageous for the Conservatory jury – ends up diverting her from this path. So, after the piano passed down from his mother, another passion inherited from his father gradually emerged: cinema.

We know what happened next: cinematic successes and absolute drama with the sudden disappearance in 2009 of Jocelyn Quivrin, father of her son then aged 8 months. Three years later, love at first sight live on the television news set with Laurent Delahousse. Together they will have two children. But behind the actress, the musician continued in silence to place her cracks on the black and white keys, without ever daring to have her compositions listened to.

At the dawn of fifty, she reveals ADNa deeply intimate debut album. In the title Synthesisshe even entrusts her most personal texts to the male artist Myope for fear of being reduced to “ the actress who talks about her life ». Behind each note, however, emerges a woman who still seeks to protect herself. While finally agreeing to tell his story.