Sophie-Tith Charvet (born 19 September 1996) is a French singer and winner … Read Full Bio ↴Sophie-Tith Charvet (born 19 September 1996) is a French singer and winner of the television show Nouvelle Star in 2013.
Sophie-Tith is the third of a family of three daughters. She was born in Ambilly and grew up in a house in Ville-la-Grand, a town in the northern suburbs of Annemasse in Haute-Savoie. The second part of her name is Laotian for origin and reason, human feeling, or alternatively Tith pronounced teat means "small". She attended Pottières kindergarten, then the Centre elementary school and Paul Langevin middle school. She then went to Jean Monnet high school in Vétraz-Monthoux, specialising in economics and science. Having repeated a year because of the heavy workload imposed on her by La Nouvelle Star, and the preparation of her first album, she obtained her baccalaureate in 2015. She continued her studies at the Condé school in Paris.
She fell in love with music at the age of 7 and learned the saxophone and music theory. But gradually, she turned to rock music. With four friends, she founded the group Asmoday , an indie rock quintet who were an opening act for Rage Against The Marmots. Sophie-Tith eventually left the girl band She stopped studying music theory and saxophone at the age of 14 to focus on her schooling, but at high school, when she was 16, she and her friends founded the group Nova which had 5 members with Sophie on vocals.
In 2013 she took part in the talent show Nouvelle Star which she won on February 26, in a public vote against runner-up Florian Bertonnier. She won an album contract with Polydor First Encounters, a cover album produced in part by Sinclair, was released in 2013. On October 7, 2013, Aldebert's album Enfantillages 2 featuring Sophie-Tith was released. She sang a duet with him on the song Little angels.
On February 20, 2014, she made an appearance on the set of La Nouvelle Star, for a duet with the two finalists, Mathieu and Isolde. In April 2014 she released her second album I like it that contains a duet with Corson The album was co-written with the singers of BB Brunes and Skip the Use. Its sales were modest.
Sophie-Tith signed up for the show a week after her 16th birthday. She went to castings in Lyon and got 4 yes votes from the panel (André Manoukian, Sinclair, Maurane and Olivier Bas), letting her travel to Paris for the next round. She reached the round for singing in trios with a version of Bang Bang by Nancy Sinatra. She then performed It vexes me by Mademoiselle K for the orchestral playback round. But the choice was difficult for the judges who decided to set up a final test in a sudden death round. Sophie sang Mad World by Tears for Fears. She was one of 10 candidates selected for the live performance. To date, she is the youngest winner of La Nouvelle Star.

Première rencontre
Sophie-Tith Lyrics

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Je restais seule dans ma chambre
Rêvant de celui qui viendrait
Me sortir un jour de l'enfance
Et avec qui je partirais
Loin
S'il m'avait fallu le décrire
Bien sûr je me serais trompée
Mais jamais déjà sans sourire

Avant de l'avoir rencontré
Avant que le concert commence
Quand tous les musiciens s'accordent
Un peu comme la mer qui avance

Un peu comme le mal au cœur

Quand je l'ai vu c'était un peu ça
Il n'avait rien de plus qu'un autre

Mais j'ai su que c'était celui-là
Et pas un autre

Overall Meaning

In "Première rencontre," Sophie-Tith sings about waiting for the one who would come and take her away from her childhood. In the first verse, she is alone in her room, dreaming of the one who will come and take her away. She longs for someone who will help her escape the world of childhood and brng her to a new life. While she admits that she would have never been able to describe him beforehand, she already knew that what she was longing for could only be found in him.

In the second verse, she talks about how the anticipation before the concert is similar to the feeling one gets when they're in love. Everything begins to fall into place, just as the musicians do when they're warming up. She compares the feeling of anticipation to the overwhelming feeling of nausea that comes with love.

In the chorus, she sings about how he didn't appear as anything special but she knew that he was the one who would take her away from her old life. She knew that he was different from any other person in her life and that nobody else would ever be able to be him.

Overall, "Première rencontre" is about the feeling of excitement and anticipation when waiting for the person who is going to change one's life forever. The song is a testament to the way that those who we end up loving aren't always the people we would expect, but rather, they're the ones that take us to a new life.

Line by Line Meaning

Je restais seule dans ma chambre
I was alone in my room

Rêvant de celui qui viendrait
Dreaming of the one who would come

Me sortir un jour de l'enfance
To take me out of childhood one day

Et avec qui je partirais
And with whom I would leave

Loin
Far away

S'il m'avait fallu le décrire
If I had to describe him

Bien sûr je me serais trompée
Of course, I would have been wrong

Mais jamais déjà sans sourire
But never without a smile

Avant de l'avoir rencontré
Before I met him

Avant que le concert commence
Before the concert starts

Quand tous les musiciens s'accordent
When all the musicians are in tune