The meeting was given at the Hôtel Rochechouart, in the 9e district of Paris, in the basement, in the Mikado club. Soft lighting, 1930s chandeliers, disco balls, thick velvet curtains, it feels like a Gatsby the magnificent, by Baz Luhrmann. Except that it’s not Leonardo DiCaprio we came to meet, but Alyosha Schneider. Dressed all in black, wearing a pair of Westons, an espresso martini in hand, the actor and songwriter waits for us seated on the bar in the center of the room. “I like it when you slouch”says the photographer.
Here we are in the quietest nightclub in Paris, unsurprisingly, on a Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. While a Pioneer turntable sits at the entrance, it is the drone of a wind tunnel worthy of an ocean liner that will accompany us for this aperitif. Recently, we saw Alyosha in two series: Everything is fine, by Camille de Castelnau (Disney+), and Greek salad, by Cédric Klapisch (Prime Video). In addition to his appearances on the small screen, he is best known for his music and his looping title: Ensemble. He is on his third album and is spending the year 2024 on tour, with an Olympia, in Paris, in December.
Before this success storyhis first record, very inspired by Bob Dylan – of whom he says “fanatic” –, gives him the impression of offering something “outdated” at festivals. The second album, in a similar tone, chooses its timing poorly: “He came out and… nothing happened!” It was in the middle of Covid, it was a bit of a disaster. » « At one point, I said to myself: shit, I’m not talking to my generation »he blurted.
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With this third opus, views change. Accompanied by his guitar, he sings hits in French that are played on the radio. A tour ensues. In front of his turner, who offers him a date at La Cigale, in March, in Paris, Alyosha becomes dizzy: “Inwardly, I say to myself shit, he’s doing something really stupid, no one is going to come. My last concert, in the small hall of La Cigale [La Boule noire], hadn’t even refueled, and it was hard. There, he tells me about a room of 1,200 people [rire étouffé, gêné]… And then I thought: “Fake it until you make it!” [‘fais semblant jusqu’à ce que tu y arrives’]. » Six months before the concert date, it is sold out (” completely “). “It’s crazy, to me,” comments Alyosha, still a little breathless.
A founding drama
To end his tour in style, he will stop by the Olympia in Paris in December. Symbolically, it is strong. He thinks back to his father, Jean-Paul Schneider, director and classical dancer, who heard Brel there, a significant event in the family legend. For the Schneiders, music is a key ingredient in education. When he thinks of his childhood, it is the sound of one brother’s drums and the notes of another’s piano that resonate in Alyosha’s ears. As adults, they all work in art-related professions. “I have an older brother who sang and whom I admired on stage… well, I mean at the concert organized by the singing teacher at the end of the year. But I was super impressed with him. He gave me my first record. He was a fan of Robbie Williams. So, by association, I was too. That’s what made me want to singr », remembers the penultimate of the siblings. Between two nibbled almonds, he looks back on his childhood activities, always a little “surrounded by girls”both during singing lessons and at dance school.
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Janus is recognized as ‘the real Ferry Bouman’ and he is disappointed about that
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He was once described as the biggest drug lord in the Benelux. Janus van Wesenbeeck from Eindhoven, alias Harry Potter. He only became really famous when Undercover was released on Netflix. The series turned out to be based on his life story: Janus is not happy with that. This is stated in his published biography. “That series has taken over my life and the lives of my children and grandchildren.” The book also features an interesting supporting role for a good acquaintance of his: Peter Gillis.
“Precisely because there are so many similarities, people no longer know what the boundary is between fiction and reality.” And that is what Van Wesenbeeck is most disappointed about. That he goes to the supermarket and is ‘recognized’ by fans, as ‘the real Ferry’.
Or even worse: that he is linked to murders. Crimes he was never charged with. Okay, except for the one thing he confessed to: the assassination of JFK. He still laughs about how he told the police that. He couldn’t laugh about it.
“I was a hot-tempered little bastard.”
These are passages from the lengthy biography of crime journalist Vico Olling. Janus wanted to tell what his truth is, Olling writes. “We had thirty conversations. That started very cautiously. But I was able to ask him everything.”
Janus talked about his childhood at the Doolplein in Eindhoven. Smuggling and the rise of drugs. His first job in his mother’s shop. Riots, violence and discrimination at the residential road camp. “I was a hot-tempered little bastard,” says Janus.
It is the history of the caravan camps told in miniature. Sometimes smooth and very detailed. Lawyers and people from the underworld, such as Mink Kok, also talked about Janus.
“He is open about his family life,” says Olling. “A bit like the Sopranos, actually. Nice to show a person of flesh and blood.” It can therefore be no coincidence that the American TV series The Sopranos about an Italian mafia family is a favorite series of Janus when he is in jail. Just like Jiskefet, he spent twelve years in Belgian prisons.
“I don’t get excited about cars, expensive clothes or jewelry.”
There are plenty of biographies of criminals from the Randstad. A biography about a Brabant criminal is rare. “That’s actually strange, yes,” says Olling.
Criminals prefer to stay under the radar, including Janus. “I don’t get excited about cars, expensive clothes or jewelry.” Janus chooses his family. He is his mother’s caregiver.
There are outings to the zoo, camping in North Holland and he loves barbecue and fishing.
But also someone with a gigantic career in the drug trade. There were times when he had twenty hash campers driving around and his own travel agency with a coach for drug smuggling. Ships, trucks.
They made a lot of money. It disappeared behind fake sockets, in turkeys in the freezer, in electrical boxes outside, in car tires and underground.
“He didn’t have to say anything else, we knew enough.”
And then came that undercover case at the Parelstrand holiday park, across the border from Valkenswaard, more than fifteen years ago. A Belgian politician ‘Mr. Easter’ tipped Janus off that the neighbors were police officers. Holiday park owner Peter Gillis confirmed the suspicion. “He didn’t have to say anything else, we knew enough.”
Janus is still not comfortable with that case because he believes he did not receive a fair trial. It led to a trip to the European Court of Human Rights, where he lost.
The biography also includes his intense account of the attempts on his life. At Best, by family member Piet Pfaff. And at the end of November 2008 in Valkenswaard.
“The doors flew open and I see four men jumping towards us with weapons drawn. I immediately recognize two Uzis and a Glock and hear Shrek shouting: ‘They’re gonna do us, they’re gonna do us!’ Then they started shooting.” Janus shot back and escaped.
Janus is now 62. His childhood sweetheart has died but he has a new relationship. He looks back on an extensive criminal career. “I don’t regret anything, but I wouldn’t want to do it anymore and I wouldn’t be able to do it anymore.”
Omroep Brabant previously compared Janus and Ferry:
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Janus is recognized as ‘the real Ferry Bouman’ and he is disappointed about that
Taylor Swift would release new song against Kim Kardashian on album The Tortured Poets Department
The singer of the moment Taylor Swift surprised with a mega-album ‘The tortured poets department’ of 31 songs, giving his fans a long repertoire to learn. However, in one of these topics it could lash out one of his archenemies, Kim Kardashian; This is what he said about the businesswoman.
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The Swifties made controversial speculations on social networks, because they believe that Taylor Swift had thrown some songs to take the clothes out of the sun of some enemies, among them, the ex-wife of Kanye West, Kim Kardashian; It would be topic 24, ‘thanK you aIMee’.
Why is the song ‘thanK you aIMee’ directed against Kim Kardashian?
one of the first theories and the most obvious is that the song title ‘thanK you aIMee’which means ‘thank you, Aimee’, but this is not the clue, but the capital letters that seem to be placed on purpose and that form the word ‘KIM‘, which could refer to one of the sisters Kardashian.
As the swifties will know, between Kim Kardashian, Kanye West y Taylor Swift there has been a rivalry complex, since sometimes there is some hatred between the three characters and sometimes they themselves specify that it is only about business. However, the pop singer seems to have gone personal in this one. song.
In the new song ‘thanK you aIMee’, Taylor Swift makes an apology for the music industry and the world of celebrities as a american county school where he bullying It is usually more than cruel and specifies that Aimee, it’s a girl who bothered her during a long time; it is believed that he did reference a Kim Kardashian.
“The whole time you were throwing punches, I was building something and I can’t forgive the way you made me feel. I screamed, ‘Fuck you, Aimee!’, at the night sky, as the blood gushed, but I can’t forget the way you made me heal,” Taylor Swift says in her song.
Given this, it is important to remember that in December of last year, Taylor Swift said suffered psychological damage from Kim Kardashian, after the businesswoman allegedly uploaded a edited video in which the singer authorized Kanye West badmouthing her in a song.
This made the pop singer angry, who complained, but with the video she would look like a liar. Therefore, in this canción ‘thanK you aIMee’, Taylor Swift she talks about an unfair conflict that made her break for quite some time.
“And it wasn’t a fair fight, nor a clean kill, every time Aimee stomped on my grave and then she wrote headlines in the local paper, laughing at every baby step I took,” he sings in the verse.
Taylor Swift talks about her mother and Kim Kardashian’s children
Even in the songsupposedly contra Kim Kardashian, Taylor Swift mentions his Mom, Andrea Finlay, who would have seen the suffering that the singer went through in the face of all the controversies and thought about annihilate the businesswoman.
“Everyone knows that my mother is a holy woman, but she used to say that she wished you were dead. I pushed every rock uphill, your words still echoing in my head, echoing in my head,” Taylor Swift added.
In order to finish, Taylor Swift added another verse that would go in contra de Kim Kardashian, but this time he would have gone too far by involving the children of celebrity, fact that not even in the world of rap or reggaeton, genres in which rhymes are made against enemies, is it incorrect.
“And maybe you reinterpreted it, and in your mind, you never broke my blue and black spirit. I don’t think you’ve changed much and so I changed your name, and any real defining clues. One day, your daughter will come home singing a song that only the two of us know is about you,” says Taylor Swift’s new song, supposedly against Kim Kardashian.
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2024-04-19 19:35:00
Taylor Swift would release new song against Kim Kardashian on album The Tortured Poets Department