Oscar, the brilliant and determined son of Patrick Bruell and Amanda Steers, who became a neuroscientist

“Don’t forget to wear sunscreen.” It was with these words that Oscar Bruel began a series of Instagram posts on the subject of neuroscience on Saturday, August 17. His post on the benefits and harms of the sun for the brain thus marked the beginning of an anthology of tips and tricks. At 21, the son of Patrick Bruell and Amanda Steers, a couple from 2001 to 2007, advises his nearly 11,700 subscribers to meditate, explains what neuroplasticity is and extols the anti-aging benefits of blueberries. Even if it means speaking in front of a camera, in perfect English.

“Go for it!”

Normally reticent, this former Emory University medical student in Atlanta who majored in neuroscience and neuroscience actually came out of the shadows in mid-August to announce a new project. So Oscar Bruel revealed that he had just started his company B N-Hancement. His purpose. “Improving athletic performance through neuroscience,” he explained in his first Instagram post, shared on Thursday, August 15. An initiative supported by his parents. “I can’t wait,” commented Patrick Bruell. Go for it.” Her mother, Amanda Sterns, was just as excited, posting an emoji “high five“.

“Sunny, generous and bold”

If Oscar Bruel recently chose to enter the light, then he remains no less a secret. We just saw him in the stands at Roland Garros in a black t-shirt and sunglasses in early June. Especially since his parents have always taken care of his privacy. for 20^e on their son’s birthday in August 2023, they published black-and-white photos of him immortalized from behind.

Amanda Steers then admired her “sunny, generous and brave” personality and her ability to “face the waves wisely and steer through headwinds with elegance and prudence in the direction she chooses”. Patrick Bruel, for his part, highly appreciated his older brother’s “demandingness, humor and generosity”. During the previous years, the singer also distilled some clues about his son’s history. Anecdotes that suggest a temperament that is both sensitive and assertive.

Concert at Zenit

In 2003, the year the little boy was born, the former couple left it up to fate to choose his name, as Patrick Bruel explained in the columns. Madame Figaro . “For our first child, we had some ideas, but we didn’t necessarily agree,” she said in 2010. So we picked up the book of names and the page was turned to Oscar. We looked at each other, smiled widely and burst out laughing. It was obvious.” The holiday is set.

It was at the age of 4, during a Patrick Bruel concert at Zenit in Paris, that Oscar learned about his father’s fame for the first time. “He looked at the people, then at me, then at the people,” the translator recalled Who has the right? in The voice of the north in April 2023. And he began to cry.’ Since then, the former couple has done everything to protect their children from this reputation. In 2015, Amanda Steers moved to the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles with Oscar and his brother Leon, born in 2005.

“I didn’t raise them remotely”

“The problem was solved there, because my popularity in the USA is completely relative,” continued Patrick Bruel in the daily newspaper. So they were no longer “sons”. Which would not prevent him from staying by their side. “I did not educate them remotely. assured the singer Gala In 2022. When the question of going to the United States came up, it was a collective decision, I spent a lot of time there and still spend a lot of time there.

Especially since Patrick, Oscar and Leon Bruel share a passion for music. “He is very present in their lives. they play guitar, piano, sing,” he added. In May 2022, the trio even sang the title track The Wire: On stage in Montreal. Last year, Patrick Bruel welcomed this complicity on air Radio M. “I didn’t have any famous teenage crises or anything like that…” she said. I believe that we are in constant dialogue since their birth.

House in L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue

Which wouldn’t have stopped Oscar Bruel from banging his fist on the table at the age of 14. Clearly not happy with his father’s frenetic pace, the teenager would then contact the production house that oversaw his tours. “He called the production to tell them. “You’d better stop making dates in Los Angeles during the school holidays or my dad won’t be able to see us,” says Patrick Bruell.

The singer and his sons are so good with each other that in 2020 they even confined themselves to L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, their home in the south of France. A house called “Leos” after the two boys’ names. Now 18-year-old Leon Bruel, for his part, started the same way as his father. However, he began making music under the pseudonym Leon Hesby.