Delpech, depression and god – Le Figaro

The interpreter Chez Laurette has died at 69. Back on this belief, important in his life, he evokes in many songs and in his book I dared God, released in 2013.

Michel Delpech, interprets to 200 songs, died yesterday at age 69 from cancer of the throat, was a fervent believer. This faith has marked his artistic career and his life as a man, although it is revealed later. It was after a painful divorce and a period of severe depression that this follower of the motto “Sex, drugs and rock & amp; roll “decides to operate this rapprochement with Christian theology, a decision which he said was of great help when it was low.

His career began in the mid 60s when Title Chez Laurette propels it on the front of the stage. On a personal level, he met Chantal Simon singer in the musical Buddies Clopant , he gives wife and two children. When they divorced, less than ten years later, Michel Delpech plunges into hell.

In Le Figaro of August 15, 1996, Renee Barbier reported this difficult period he sought to relieve his discomfort transcendent, “He then began a long journey of survival when he tries everything to be cures and palliatives for its drift: alcohol, drugs, spiritualism, dowsing, marabouts and exorcism, clairvoyance, Hinduism and Chinese philosophy … cures sleep finally. “But the star always looks abusing artificial paradises, although it remains modest in his songs. The Divorced (1973) evokes a peaceful break.

Here comes what he perceives as an inaugural event of his life. The singer says walking past a chapel rue du Bac in Paris, having entered and stayed several hours. “In the house of God, where the Lord protects me, nothing can happen to me, the devil can not break loose. But once outside, I feel threatened again. “He later wrote in his book I dared god , he” has probably always been a Christian. ” In 1975, Michel Delpech wrote the song There’s still in which he evokes the sacred: “People who make the sign of the cross / who live in monasteries / devotees who sing prayers / He any, there yet. / (…) There are still people who believe in God. ” Then he met Geneviève Garnier-Fabre, a painter. They married shortly thereafter and will remain united until his death.

God I dare (Presses de la Renaissance) is his fourth book, published in November 2013. Guest on Europe 1 to ensure the promotion, the artist explained his quest, very personal, “I did not talk to my family, because my relatives are rather agnostic. They feared that this kind of research do me more harm than good. But in my heart there is a deep joy appeasement. ” The same year, Paris Match revealed that the singer is suffering from cancer of the throat and tongue. Disease he died yesterday, January 2.