Unknown until now, Kendji Girac’s partner has been at the heart of the investigation since Monday, after the singer was shot in the chest.
It’s official: Kendji Girac’s gunshot wound was not accidental. “An accident, an untimely shot, is considered impossible”, announced the public prosecutor of Mont-de-Marsan, Olivier Janson, during a press conference given this Thursday afternoon. According to his companion, a woman named Soraya Miranda, the artist, under the influence of alcohol and already prey to suicidal thoughts, “shot himself voluntarily or involuntarily”. The winner of season 3 of The Voice “had already said in the past that he was going to shoot himself or cut his throat during arguments,” according to comments from his partner reported by the prosecutor.
Once all the hearings were completed, it was in fact certified that on the night of the events, Monday April 22, Kendji Girac had drunk a lot and consumed cocaine, which caused a succession of arguments with his partner. In this case, analyzes confirmed that the singer was heavily alcoholic, at more than 2.5 grams per liter of blood, and that he had indeed consumed cocaine in the hours preceding the tragedy. And it is precisely his addiction to alcohol and drugs which has recently been a source of conflict in his household. “Tensions arose due to an emerging addiction to alcohol, a subject which generated great tension in the couple,” Olivier Janson further explained. The singer, who returned to his first version, declared that he had “simulated a suicide” to scare his partner, who threatened to leave if he did not resolve his addiction problem. The singer of the famous song Andalusian claims to have then intentionally shot himself, without being aware that the magazine contained ammunition.
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Love at first sight in Switzerland
Before this news item, Kendji Girac seemed to be spending happy days with Soraya Miranda, his partner of ten years. And this, with the greatest discretion. Indeed, until now, almost nothing had leaked about this seemingly peaceful couple. Since then, we have learned, for example, in the columns of Parisian , that Kendji Girac and Soraya Miranda met in Switzerland the year the 27-year-old singer won the telecrochet show “The Voice”, in 2014, “and never left each other’s side”.
However, nothing predestined them to be together. Unlike Kendji Girac who grew up in the Traveler community, Soraya Miranda does not come from the Gypsy community. She is originally from Switzerland, where her family still lives and where she is used to going very regularly, “every month”, according to prosecutor Olivier Janson. To investigators, Soraya Miranda assured that her union with Kendji Girac had not been well received, neither in her family, nor in that of the singer. The first years, the guitarist and his partner lived their relationship at a distance: he lives in the Paris region; she remains in Switzerland.
Total discretion
In 2020, a new milestone was reached: the couple moved in together, in the Paris region. The boxes have barely been unpacked, a baby is already on the way. At the beginning of 2021, Kendji Girac and Soraya Miranda became parents of a little girl, named Eva Alba. His face has never been revealed. “I understand that it’s intriguing, but we won’t see it. If I could not talk about it, I would. My work is my work,” insisted the artist, very protective, near Paris Match in June 2021. Same reservation when it came to talking about his partner. In an interview at Radio Monaco At the end of 2022, Kendji Girac explained that his partner, whose identity was still unknown, wanted to remain discreet. “She doesn’t want to put herself forward. It’s his choice. I tend to agree with her,” he said, adding that it was his way of handling “something complicated: being the wife of a singer who has always left.”
This “always gone” world no longer coincided with that of Soraya Miranda. The latter even intended to draw a line under his life on the road so that her daughter, soon to be in school, does not miss a day of school. Yet another sensitive subject, no doubt.