With his new title Kendji Girac returns to his gunshot wound that occurred last spring. The singer returns to the music scene with a ballad that he dedicates to his audience.
Kendji Girac is back with a new song. In a Instagram post released on Thursday, August 29, the gipsy singer announced the release of a new single and hinted at an upcoming return to the stage. “I took the time to work on a beautiful song, to dig deep into my heart, to want to say what I wanted to say, really from the depths of my soul,” the singer told his fans who had been waiting for his return for many months.
The revelation of The Voice seems to be starting a whole new chapter in his life. With this ballad entitled If onlyavailable since Friday, August 30 on all streaming platforms, Kendji returns frankly to the tragic episode he experienced last spring. Mixing explanations and apologies, the song written by Vianney, a close friend of the singer, is the first extract from a future album that should be released before the end of the year.
“Forgive me if I preferred to destroy myself, even if it meant risking damaging my empire. On stage I left my smile.” In this piece that he wanted “only” for his audience, Kendji Girac tells the other side of the coin of success. He explains that he was unable to talk about the turmoil he was in “for fear of spoiling the photo”, it must be said that in ten years of career Kendji Girac has shone with his soft and cheerful melodies with gypsy sounds. The interpreter of Bella and ofAndalusian This time he wanted to address his fans, believing that he owed them some explanations. “This is the first time that I address you informally in this song because you are my audience who have been there for ten years. I had to make a song just for you,” he told them in a video announcing the release of the single.
The public needed to understand
Seriously wounded by a bullet last April during a domestic dispute, Kendji Girac saw his entire private life exposed in the press. Shot in the chest, heavily intoxicated and under the influence of cocaine, he was hospitalized for several days. In this case, the singer had declared that he had “feigned suicide” to hold back his partner who was threatening to leave him, but he later retracted his words. The courts had closed the case without further action, but for some of his fans this episode remained a real shock.
Last May, the singer broke his silence to apologize to his audience in a text posted on his social networks. A month later, he published a video where he addressed his audience directly. “I want to apologize to those I have hurt, to whom I have caused pain. […] It is important to me to thank you for being kind and not judging me when I hurt you,” he told his fans who had been waiting for the artist’s return. The song If only, highly symbolic, is an opportunity for Kendji Girac to mark his return in complete transparency with his audience.