He said he was healed. He relapsed. Up sinking. Michel Delpech died Saturday at age 69, after more than two years struggling with courage and physical strength that forced the admiration of his relatives against cancer of the tongue and throat caused by years of smoking. But last November, he had thought fared almost saved, “even if you always wait five years to be totally sure,” he told us then. He did not have all that time.
He wanted to sing it, it resulted, although the disease had begun his speech. “Luckily, my vocal cords were completely spared,” he explained us then, reassured, reassuring. We rejoiced. Because we were always glad to hear Michel Delpech, who sang for us talking about us, telling our lives, those of our parents. Children, we did not understand everything, but they sang loudly “Looks t’gêne qu’ça to walk in the mud,” without any capture of this piece on the opposition between Parisian and provincial, between the city and countryside he loved.
VIDEO. Michel Delpech: “The Loir-et-Cher”
Star to 18
Our parents, they had all inclusive, including “Divorced” was a song that almost taboo question of a true society, where Delpech evoked his own break with Chantal, with whom he had two children Garance and Bartholomew. They knew everything from “Chez Laurette” coffee at the exit of his high school in Pontoise (Val-d’Oise), or “Wight Wight is” the festival of the same name. A whole era. For half a century, has sung Delpech he observed, what he was.
VIDEO. Michel Delpech, “Wight is wight”
VIDEO. Michel Delpech: “Chez Laurette ‘
His fate was quickly sealed: interpreter at the age of 18, star of the musical” Buddy clopant “to 19 years then popular singer at 22, linking the tubes, “Flirting”, “What was lovely Marianne,” “Hunter” … “I came out just high school when I started, and I found myself in all Plans of the star system. I knew nothing of life except singing, earn money and sleep with girls, “he recounted in 2004.” I had alcohol, some drugs, I smoked a lot. I have not led the life that is healthier, but it was a very creative, happy life, “added the artist in his book” Living! “Published in March.
VIDEO. Michel Delpech, “The Hunter”
VIDEO. Michel Delpech: “Let Marianne was pretty”
But in the early 1980s, Delpech cracks, dark. This is called big depression. “Life was smiling at me, I had success, I succeeded. Yet I dove. And I dipped very low. For ten years, [depression] kept me away from the scene of the song, of all that I am, “he writes. Delpech done with, managing his doubts, anxieties, but chose to return to life. Especially in the early 2000s, young musicians also sing their era: Sanseverino, Bénabar Delerm and above. In 2004, our newspaper is organizing a meeting between him and Delpech. Two storytellers of their time. The old and the new is no longer left since become friends, in the city or at the scene.
The young generation follows the lead Bénabar. Clarika, Cali, Barbara Carlotti sing with their eldest on an album of duets number of sales since its release late 2006. A first for thirty years Delpech. A beautiful revanche.Tout as “the Air nothing” pretty film released in 2012 where he plays himself, or what nod Gérard Depardieu singing one of his classics in the highly acclaimed “When I ‘ Singer “by Xavier Giannoli in 2006:” My poor Cecile. I have 73 years. I learned that Mick Jagger died recently. I celebrated the farewell of Sylvie Vartan, “said Song. Delpech has not gone that far. “People take forever to forget you,” he wryly slipped in the movie “Air nothing” about celebrity. He does not doubt, we always think of him.
VIDEO. Michel Delpech: “The Singer”
VIDEO. The trailer of “nothing about the Air”
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