Present in the world of music since 1970, Didier Barbelivien has composed more than 2000 songs. In October 2022, the artist released what constitutes his latest album simply titled “Didier Barbelivien”. Asked by Elodie Suigo for her interview “Le Monde d’Elodie”, the singer has just retraced his entire career with 5 of his essential songs written for others or for himself.
The 69-year-old artist first spoke of his father, who was a showman and who passed on his passion for music to him. “My father liked a lot of stuff! He sang old songs from the time of Tino Rossi, but he liked Johnny Hallyday. He liked much more modern songs. He liked Leny Escudero, someone we hardly ever talk about, Mouloudji, Francis Lemarque, people like that”.
He thus returned to the success of the hit “To all the girls”, a duet with Félix Gray released in 1991 which has become a hit that crosses generations. “We experienced it in a good mood. Especially since at the start, we were thrown off all the radios. But that is the prerogative of songs that will make France sing. In general, if you want to make sure you have a hit is when you’re thrown off the media: “It’s not enough if, it’s not enough that, it’s not what we expected of him, all the same it’s a bit easy“. Trying to make popular songs out of them, you’ll see if it’s easy. And Félix and I are so close that it makes us laugh” he revealed.
Drawing on his memories, he then said: “We know that there are television shows to promote our song and please people or not. It could have been an absolute flop, but we had made the effort to s buy tuxedos to play Jean-Pierre Cassel and Sacha Distel in the big years. In short, it was good.”
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