France: Enzo to fly the flag on home soil performing ‘Tic Tac’ at Junior Eurovision 2021

Thursday, 21 October 2021

• Enzo will be representing France on home soil at Junior Eurovision 2021 performing the song 'Tic Tac'. 

  The host broadcaster of the upcoming Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Paris, France Television, has confirmed that the 13 year old talented singer Enzo will represent the host nation in the competition on December 19. 

  The French Junior Eurovision hopeful will be singing 'Tic Tac' on stage at the concert hall La Seine Musicale where the next contest will take place. Tic Tac is written and composed by Alban Lico, and urges people to take a break and try enjoy things that are more simple in life. 

   

  A few words for Enzo

  Enzo Hilaire, a big football and Mbappé fan, has been singing since he was little. A Year 7 student at Discovery College, Enzo started singing when he was just two-years-old and hasn’t stopped since. 

  Enzo was born in France to Francois, a pilot, and Moroccan-French mum Fatima, but landed in Macau at six months, living there until the family relocated to Cheung Sha when he was seven.

  Though he got distracted by football at age six (his second career choice), a few years back, he discovered rap thanks to his brother who made him listen to Eminem and other rappers. And as the young boy wants to be like his brother, he also begins to sing and rap. For him, rap is “crazy” because he can jump anywhere, let go. 

  ‘As a child I was already singing and dancing in my living room. My brother got a guitar for Christmas, I borrowed it from him and it was my father who taught me to play it’, he says.

  The casting team of The Voice Kids France spotted him on YouTube and invited him to a Skype audition, where he won his ticket to ‘the blinds’ in Paris. Enzo made it all the way to 2020 The Voice Kids finals on October 10, and he describes his time on the show with infectious enthusiasm. “It was incredible,” he says. “I learnt so many new vocal capabilities, and so many new techniques. It was an amazing journey and experience.

  In his blind audition he impressed Soprano who turned round with Enzo joining her team and achieving to make it to the finals. 

  Enzo comes across as wise beyond his years, showing ambitious energy, and he already sounds like an industry veteran showing confindent of where he wants to take himself. He’s already writing and producing his own music – “hip-hop inflected pop” – and he hints at future projects with big names in the music industry that are being considered in the wake of his success.

   

  Alexandra Redde-Amiel, head of the French delegation to Eurovision, talking about the French JESC 2021 hopeful says:

  "We are very happy to welcome Enzo into the big family of Eurovision. All the French delegation and France Télévisions will be at his side to accompany him in this extraordinary adventure which will also be marked by the organization of the event in France. Historic!

  His energy, his talent, his unique voice make Enzo a superb representative of France. With his song that evokes the time that passes so quickly, Enzo embarks us in his world so catchy and lively to remind us that life is to savour every second."

   

  France In Junior Eurovision

  France participated in the Junior Eurovision first time in 2004, when Thomas Pontier represented the country with “Si on voulait bien”  and finished 6th . After that edition the country withdrew and stayed absent until the 2018 edition, when they returned with Angélina and the song Jamais Sans Toi which finished in the honorable 2nd place with 203 points.

  In 2019 the nation was represented by Carla who 5th place in Gliwice, with the song “Bim Bam Toi”.  In the  2020 edition of the compeition in Warsaw, Poland Valentina's winning performance of 'J'Imagine'  that brought the trophy to France for the first time: 

   

  News Source/Image: JuniorEurovision.tv