Capture YouTubeWith almost 20 years of career, Vitaa is about to shoot a big page confirming that she would no longer come out of a solo album after “Charlotte”. Guest of the “Legend” podcast, the one who plays in “everything for the light” also reviews her journey, from her difficult beginnings to meet him with Diam’s, without forgetting the education of her children or her fortune. When the host Guillaume Pley asked her to confirm a rumor that she won 96 million euros, the interpreter of “à Fleur de toi” lets out a frank laugh: ” Ah bah of course! I arrived in jet there, he is in front. I landed in the 17th! ». The opportunity for her to evoke a funny anecdote concerning her mother.
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« Is that recent? Because there was something that came out like that four years ago. And my mother calls me one day … she believes that! “But say, is it true that you earned 80 million euros?” “Remember Vitaa, still shocked that she could have believed in such a sum:” I said to him, “But mom, do you know how to count or not? Please! Do you think I live there? Do you think I am Mbappé?” ». But is it really intoxicated? “” Either way, let’s calm down! We are singers. I would dream of having won this in my life … I make a good life of course but I am very far from that “Affirm the 42 -year -old artist and mother of three, who estimates that he sold 3 million albums – including 1 million with Slimane on” Versus ” – and who now produces his music and his tours.
Such a figure also gives him dizzy. “” I hope one day to win that, or not … in real life, I hope not because it is other problems, other spheres Attests Vitaa, chilly at the idea that his life changes completely because of money. To set the record straight facing rumors, the interpreter of “Come on try” with Julien Doré recalls a very simple thing: ” Already, you have to know it, if you are not a songwriter, you do not earn your life. If you are performer, you don’t earn your life. I don’t know how they do it. You don’t have a sacem, you are not an author! ».
“I was a saleswoman to pay my rent”
Even at the time of the “night confessions” tube with Diam’s, Vitaa has not become wealthy. “” No, with a song, that is not enough. You have to talk about album sales to make a living. Afterwards, today there is streaming it’s different “Explain the one who suffered years of galleys before success:” Until I sign in a record company, I was a saleswoman at the same time because I had to pay my rent. I didn’t know what it was going to give. Until the release of the first album, and again it’s retroactive, you don’t touch money before a year and a half after the release of an album. You have to live … you take a lead. But there are some who slam everything ».
Very economical and prudent, Vitaa was fortunate to be well advised by an accountant who explained three crucial things to him: in music, the artists affect their income ” Three times a year “, it’s necessary ” set aside » et « Taxes will take you 40% ». Precious advice that served him well. “” I started to earn a living after “Fleur de you” which sold 400,000 [exemplaires] In three-four months, and I immediately bought an apartment. And I did well because the album according to it worked “Underlines the singer, whose last disc” Charlotte “has 80,000 copies sold and a closed window tour.
