For more than 10 years, Styleto has built a solid community on YouTube where he shares some moments of his daily life on video.
But, lately, it is through music that the young woman from Lyon reveals a new facet of her personality to her more than 600,000 subscribers. After five singles and a covers album, CarouselThe young woman, now a performer, author and composer, has started a tour of France and is preparing to take the stage at La Cigale in Paris this Tuesday, May 28, before a concert at the Olympia and a new album planned at the end. 2024.
“I didn’t dare take the step”
“I have always liked to sing since I was little. In my diaries it was written ‘become a great singer,’” Styleto confesses to BFMTV.com. When she started YouTube in 2013, Laure, her real name, however, took some time to embrace this artistic part of her personality.
“Making music was still quite ingrained in me. I always had that desire but I didn’t dare to start. I had the impression that I was in a YouTuber’s box and that people weren’t going to like it.” if I did something else,” she explains.
Among numerous videos about his daily life as a teenager, Styleto makes some musical attempts on his YouTube channel. Helped by the musicians of the group Arcadian, the aspiring singer published her first video versions of herself.
“I was fascinated to enter this world thanks to them. I also wanted to start, but I was too afraid, I couldn’t take responsibility,” she reveals.
Fear of the gaze of others.
For fear of missing out on his passion, Styleto decides on a whim, in 2022, to overcome his fears and throw himself into music at all costs. “I remember it was 7:30 in the morning, she was on the train to go to Lyon,” recalls the singer.
“I said to myself: ‘wait, that’s a shame, I don’t do it just because I’m afraid of how others will look.’ So I messaged some friends who were making music and we left,” she explains.
In the process, the artist revealed a short acoustic version of the song on Instagram. hurt others of his favorite artist, Ben Mazué. Very quickly, the video was a success and reached the ears of the singer, who invited Styleto to go on stage with him during a concert in Belgium to sing its title as a duet.
“It happened so quickly and the response was so good that it immediately took away all my doubts and I said, ‘Oh yeah, okay, actually people like it and I like it, so I’m going to keep doing it.’ it'”, says the singer.
A moving and authentic universe
Buoyed by the success of this cover, Styleto will officially launch in summer 2022. In parallel with her YouTube career, she will release a first single, Breaka catchy pop ballad that invites you to travel, then a first album of covers Carouselwhere the young singer summons the artists who inspire her (Dalida, Orelsan, Angèle, Yseult…).
With her singular voice and her authenticity tinged with self-deprecation, the artist seduces her listeners and is noticed by the Columbia label with which she will little by little build her universe, based on moving texts, danceable pop sounds and tactile sensitivity.
“I listen to a lot of French songs and variety, so I knew a little bit where I wanted to go. Ben Mazué was one of my first inspirations, particularly in his way of writing, with great detail, very loaded texts.” says Styleto.
“I also liked the pop side of artists like Angèle, with a freshness that is good for French song,” he continues.
After four singles, Too good, Normal, Faces and smells. AND you have to love meIn addition to collaborating with singer Louane, Styleto reached a milestone at the end of 2023 and began a tour of France. From Nantes to Lille, passing through Bordeaux, Strasbourg or Montpellier, the artist has performed in numerous sold-out venues.
“Coming from the networks and already having a community is a huge opportunity but it is also a challenge. I have to show people even more that I have legitimacy to release songs, to do concerts, so I have to work even harder (…) That’s why , playing with a full audience is reassuring,” says Styleto.
While preparing to take the stage at La Cigale, this Tuesday, May 27, for the second Paris concert of her tour, the singer is also preparing her second album, which should be published “at the end of 2024, beginning of 2025.”
“It will not be a covers album but my first album. I’ve been working on it for a long time and I want to do things well,” concludes the singer.
Source: BFM TV
