So we were at Carla Bruni’s and we weren’t just talking about songs. We talked about the pleasure of adapting poems. For instance The Death of Lovers by Charles Baudelaire, a song which was released in 2020, as a bonus on the collector’s version of his latest album.
It is a happiness of poetry, for an artist of the song, because several versions are always possible for a poem. Carla Bruni remembered that Léo Ferré, in 1957, for the centenary of Flowers of Evilhad made a song of The Death of Lovers. But then there was, between 2004 and 2019, BabX, Georges Chelon, the group Les P’tits Yeux – and therefore Carla Bruni.
In this episode of our chronicle behind our voicesthis is what you hear:
Carla Bruni, The death of lovers, 2020
Leo Ferre, The death of lovers, 1957
George Chelon, The death of lovers, 2004
BabX, The death of lovers, 2012
Little Eyes, The death of lovers, 2019
Carla Bruni, The death of lovers, 2020
Carla Bruni sings to us Allegiance, 2022
Michel Piccoli, Allegiance, 2002
Jorane, Allegiance, 2012
Carla Bruni sings to us Allegiance, 2022
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Remember: during the summer of 2019, La Playlist de Françoise Hardy was a crossing of the musical baggage of an author, composer and performer considered as the arbiter of the elegance of pop in France.
In July and August 2017, we spent A Summer in Souchon, during which Alain Souchon guided us on a tasty walk through a lifetime of love for song.