Discover “Vivre” by Michel Berger, an unreleased song that celebrates life and the beauty of nature

Recorded in the United States at the time of the sessions of the album “Beauséjour”, this song had been excluded from it for lack of space.

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It’s a lovely song written a little over forty years ago and yet remained unreleased all these years: Live, posted Friday, October 7, is a nugget that allows you to find the voice of Michel Berger intact in 2022. Visionary, the singer celebrates life on Earth and the incredible beauty of nature.

Flowers and animals / Are all a bit of my family / We all started from scratch“, he sings in particular accompanied by his piano. “Torrent streams / Make the water flow / Look how beautiful we are / Live! / Plants, plants climb / Sap in my body / Come dance to the chord and live / Sun, earth, plain forests / Step into the blood of our veins / We must grow strong / We must live.”

This song was recorded in the United States in 1980 during the sessions of Beausejour, his fifth album. But for lack of space (on the vinyl), Live had been removed from this disc. An album which finally saw Michel berger triumph as a singer with in particular the tube The pianist’s groupiebut also, to a lesser extent, with the one who sings and A few words of love. Because until then, Michel Berger had only succeeded in establishing himself as a songwriter, in particular with opera-rock. starmania two years before.

On the occasion of the thirty years of the disappearance of Michel Berger, a Best-of album will appear on October 28 at Warner, and an album made up of titles from his debut would also be in the starting blocks. As for starmania, the highly anticipated new 2022 version, directed by Thomas Jolly, begins in Nice with two previews on Friday 7 and Saturday 8 October. It will then be presented in Marseille and Nancy before settling from November 8 at La Seine musicale and until the end of January.


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