Isabelle Morizet, Karen Cheryl back in stores

You may not know it, but three days after the death of Pope Francis, a resurrection has taken place. Not in Rome. In Paris. In the salons of a chic hotel in the 16th arrondissement, a character we thought had vanished forever comes back to life: singer Karen Cheryl. It's even a trinity that appears before us, in an elegant blue ensemble, smiling and enthusiastic: there's Carène Cheryl, her first pseudonym, Karen Cheryl, and Isabelle Morizet, their interpreter, the one who one day consigned the other two to oblivion "so she could move on with her life."

If she's resurrected, it's to give her fans the gift they were no longer expecting: the re-release of all her songs in a best-of collection. "I thought it would be very confidential," she says without false modesty, stunned to see the small box set start fourth in physical sales behind the new Lady Gaga. With this release, her repertoire is rediscovered: not broadcast on the radio, never put online on platforms, Karen Cheryl's songs had disappeared from our ears since she gave up her singing career almost twenty-five years ago. Here, sixty-five tracks burst forth, the French ones, remastered as if they had been recorded yesterday. The English songs, from her disco period, are expected in 2026.

One wonders why she accepted this return of the New Romantics ,