The pop icon of the 1980s and 1990s, Joe Bocan, who particularly left his mark on Quebec with his daring shows, returned to the reasons that led him to leave the art world in full splendor for many years.
The naturally driven singer-songwriter revealed during her appearance at La vérité nature on Sunday evening that she had difficulty combining her image with the causes she wanted to defend in shows and with her songs.
“People didn't really like the fact that I was a sexy girl who had content, lyrics that I wanted to defend, an obligation. […] “There is already a journalist who, after this show (Your Joys and Your Evils, 1989), called me a whore because I was “dressed too sexy”,” confided the interpreter of “Paradoxale”.
Shortly afterwards, the singer decided to cancel her tour and go to the countryside to raise her children, out of voluntary simplicity, she told Jean-Philippe Dion.
“We didn’t live richly. I didn't have much, but it was a choice. It was my total melody of happiness,” said the singer, who as a child dreamed of playing Julie Andrews in the musical, specifying that everything about the “provocative” and flamboyant creator is still there today.
“I’m old, but I still like being sexy,” she said, laughing.
The importance of Start over
Joe Bocan, who initially became known as an actress (Minibus), was by no means destined to become a singer. Encouraged by a singing teacher, she eventually tried music and placed second to Jean Leloup at the 1983 Granby International Song Festival.
Several years passed between his appearances and the release of his self-titled debut album Joe Bocan.
“I tried to write an album but I couldn't. “It was really a paradox of mine in life, bright and, when it comes to writing, completely intense, dramatic and overly committed,” she confessed, admitting that without “Start from Zero” she would not have had the career she has today has .
“It was the song I wished I could have written but couldn’t,” she said.
True Nature is presented on Sunday after La Voix and can be replayed on TVA+.