Renaud: Malone’s son was cured of his malaise – Gala

Renaud’s studio and completed his new album. A renaissance for an artist who has long been in the hole and is too often lost in alcohol. And it is his son Malone, who turns 10 this year, he owes.

“ I am in great shape, I finished my record, remains the mixing and mastering, so output in March “and” is expected in 2016 to redo the scene “. With these few words posted on Facebook that between yesterday and today Renaud shared his joy to return to the front of the stage. The singer claimed that he drank more , it had declined the cigarette, in short he was out of the hell in which he had sunk in recent years.

If the Phoenix, as he calls himself, rising from the ashes it is for a single reason. Not to please her record label, nor for purely financial reasons. No, its only motivation is summed up in one name: Malone . The son born in July 2006 and he had with his last partner Romane Serda.

The little boy was only 2 years old when his dad is enjoying a resurgence of form with the album Red Blood and the following tour, during which many observers claim to have found the Renaud we love and the spirit of his voice. In 2009, Renaud sort Molly Malone Irish ride , a cover album of traditional Irish songs dedicated to his son. But it was at this same period that the singer plunges in alcohol . It destroys small fire under the Romane eyes that says he can not fight against that with which the fallopian Renaud daily, the divine bottle. Malone then aged 3 or 4 years old, an age when children begin to realize and experience the things adults. Romane cracks and leaves the marital home with her child under his arm. Even if she still loves Renaud, she asks for a divorce.

For the love of their child, it remains contact Renaud. “ We called about twice a day, every day , she told us in December. It has always been the need of each other. The bond we will never be broken. Between us, there Malone, our son, of course, but it also remains much love, despite all . ” And it is for their son that Romane Serda asks Renaud to write a song. A long remained idle query.

And then one day in the spring of 2015, the singer found inspiration . With Grand Corps Malade who was able to convince him to get back to writing. But especially thanks to Malone song that inspired him. It’s called Your battery and appears on the album It will remain that Grand Corps Malade was released in October. It has mainly served snap Renaud because after that first text, he chained to another and then another, until the number needed to fill an album. One he is finalizing and which is released in March . The title is unknown but there is a good chance that it is dedicated to his son Malone

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