(Paris) Renaud will be released on May 6 meticalbum of covers by Georges Brassens, Yves Montand, Jean Ferrat, Georges Moustaki, Jacques Higelin and Serge Reggiani, announced its label on Wednesday.
Posted at 12:42 p.m.
If you buy me a drink, from Serge Reggiani’s repertoire, will be the first track released on Thursday. A hell of a wink for Renaud, who had sunk to a period in alcohol. “If you buy me a drink / I won’t blame you / For being nothing at all … I’m nothing that is worth”, we hear in this piece.
In his last interview with the newspaper The Parisian last September, Renaud once again claimed to have “definitively quit alcohol” and to be “a new man”.
The album, his 19and, will include “thirteen old French songs that have marked me,” said the 69-year-old artist, whose health, damaged by years of excess, worries his fans at regular intervals. “I wanted to make this album for years […] It will hurt ! “, he added.
His voice was in a sorry state on his last album released in the winter of 2019, Kids and kids first. Asked about this point, he replied that he had “eliminated the cigarette”, “passed from sixty a day to fifteen”.
The “wild chetron”, one of her nicknames, does not think of a return to the stage: “No, I am retired. I will do a minimum of promotion, that’s all.