Juliette Greco celebrates 89 years and prolongs the farewell – Le Figaro

The singer will celebrate his birthday Sunday, February 7th on the stage of the Théâtre de la Ville de Paris. A concert planned as part of a tour launched last spring in which she plays extra time.

Sunday, February 7, Juliette Greco will celebrate its 89 years. A moment she will share with the audience the Théâtre de la Ville de Paris, where she will take the stage as part of a farewell tour. Launched last spring, it does not seem eager to give it the final song.

Blow out the candles on the prestigious Parisian scene, “it’s magic, it’s unexpected because I would be long dead!”, She slipped into a mischievous smile. “It shows me that I’m still alive and I was not completely useless in this business,” added the “Muse of Saint-Germain-des-Prés” behind the scenes in the auditorium of the Louvre Museum where France Inter honored him Friday night.

Miossec, Olivia Ruiz, Vianney pay homage

A dozen singers, musicians and comedians have succeeded for two hours to celebrate “Jolie Mome” and songs. Among them: Miossec, author Song of the text Thank you , recently recorded by singer Olivia Ruiz, who has written in the past two songs for it and Vianney, who took over Pretty kid .

After being applauded from the room, visibly moved, Greco is mounted in turn sing Thank you , accompanied as always at the piano by her husband, Gerard Jouannest 82 years. A long standing ovation followed the last words of this song of farewell: “Thank you for poetry, wind, life.”

A career started in 1949

The singer string of concerts since last spring with the desire to go through all the emblematic places of his career started in 1949. Already mounted on the stage three rooms in the capital in December, she chose the setting of the City Theatre for this particular February 7, that of his birthday. It is on this stage that it created in 1968 one of his most famous songs, the very free and playful Undress Me .

His farewell tour at the scene revert again through the capital on April 17 at the Casino de Paris and at the Salle Pleyel on 9 December. Juliette Greco will also visit Japan and Britain in June. As a sign indicating that it has every intention to prolong this last lap.