“Filip”: Who was Filip Nikolic, leader of 2Be3?

It was on September 16, 2009. The lifeless body of Filip Nikolic, former leader of the 2Be3 was found at home in the 16th district in Paris. He was 35 years old and many projects, such as a solo album, and a career in television and theater.

TF1 broadcasts on Monday a television film entitled Filip, which returns on the life and career of the ephemeral star of 2Be3. It is actor Mikaël Mittelstadt who plays Filip Nikolic.

But this is not the only project that is interested in the history of the band of ephemeral boys. The main video platform will also be presented on October 24, a series of season 2 of Worshipbehind the scene Loft historydedicated to the phenomenon.

• Childhood friends

Son of Serbian immigrants, Filip Nikolic grew up in Longjumeau in Essonne. It was there that he became friends, when he was a child with Frank Delay, then at the university with Adel Kachermi. The three are passionate about sport: Filip practices high level and dance gymnastics. Together, they will become the members of the 2BE3, which in 1990 is still called (being free).

Filip is seen in the program’s model competition If we sing In TF1 in 1996, which he won at 21. Already in 1996, the three young people become the 2BE3, signed with the EMI record company, to become a French equivalent of the Anglo -Saxon bands of the time, such as the separate worlds or the Backstreet boys.

• Fulge success

Success is immediate and its first title, Go to a dayTaken from the album of the same name, it is a huge tube. Sale for its ephemeral and meteoric career during its ephemeral, the 2Be3 will launch 3 Studios albums, but also a live in Bercy, a remix and a compilation. In just 5 years, until their separation, they sold five million records.

“We were super natural! We were even screaming because Filip was scam all the time,” Frank Delay said in 2016 with Ozap. “We were not chosen by casting, we were not directed, we did not change our names, we were not looking … and people accepted us as we were.”

• 2001: End of 2BE3

In 2001, however, the group separated. “There was a lack of breath, the radios no longer happened to us. I think we had made many images and that a little people were drunk,” Frank Delay said in People Non Stop in 2020.

They published their last album in 2001, an album they recorded in the United States, in Miami, in English. “We returned with an English album that he really didn’t like. We had to make French versions. And then Filip began Navarrese… “Frank Delay still mentioned.

• The race on the screen

Filip Nikolic continues your television career. He is running in the police series NavarreseTF1 flagship with Roger Hanin. He participated in the 2002 to 2006 series, then in the series derived from the Navarro Brigade, from 2007 to 2009. Lieutenant Yann Boldec. Also touches the theater in an adaptation ofCome home, live with a girlfriend Then in the room Funny parents.

The choreographer Mia Frye, who knew him, evokes on Monday in Télé Loisirs, a role that was very close to his heart and did not win, the long Winch in the cinema. It is the actor Tomer Sisley who gets the paper. “I really wanted this role. It was a role for him. And then, I think he saw the potential of this role, and wanted an international career.”

On September 15, 2009, Filip Nikolic was found dead at home. He made a cardiac arrest caused by the absorption of sleeping pills and alcohol. The suicide thesis has been dismissed.