Eddy Antoine Jean de Pretto (born 2 May 1993 in Créteil in the Val-de-Marne) is a French singer-songwriter, actor and rapper.
Early life
Eddy de Pretto was born on 2 May 1993 and grew up in Créteil in the Val-de-Marne. His father is a truck driver and football fan, his mother a laboratory technician and art lover. He sings about his native city in Beaulieue. In an interview, he described his hometown:
...a certain amount of anger, a desire to better myself. There's a bit of a sort of straightjacket in the banlieues, like it or not: we're told we're on the margin, that we'll amount to nothing, that we'll come to a bad end. Me, my head was full of dreams and a little voice told me I'd get there. The desire to overcome it all helped me succeed...
At the age of twelve, de Pretto started lessons in theatre, singing, vocal technique and piano: "I took the TV remote for a microphone and operated a halogen lamp for lighting. So my mother suggested taking theatre lessons since I didn't excel at sport." He continued his education at the Institut supérieur des arts de la scène (ECM-ISAS, "Advanced Institute of Dramatic Arts") in Paris.
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