At 78, Michel Polnareff is finally back on the front of the stage. On the program, a new original album and a major tour across France. From this country that he missed so much when he lived in the United States as his beautiful song tells… And he is still the same! White glasses and golden hair, this atypical artist who is an icon for several generations from the height of his fifty-year career still has such a biting humor and texts of rare poetry. Facing Nikos Aliagas this Saturday, May 20, 2023 in 50’Inside, the king of transgression will nevertheless split the armor by talking about his childhood… In front of images of his little Louka, his adored son, he will reveal: “I want to be with Louka, the opposite of whatthat my father has been with me.” And to continue: “My father was very brutal physically, I was beaten, defeated…”. A traumatic childhood that surely gave him the taste for leaving… His father? A musician, like him, who called himself Léo Poll.
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“Fortunately, I hadn’t taken it in the face”
In 2016, in his third autobiography titled Sperm (ed. Pol), the artist returned for a long time to his progenitor: “From my father, I only knew the threat of reprisals and their bitter expression. My father took me therehas a hard life and denied me childhood. He has always expected perfection from me and I did my best to satisfy him from the age of four: ten hours a day in front of the keyboard” he confided then. He also explained that his father, who died in 1988, always managed to ridicule him or deprive him of his freedoms: “I was invited to a party and I had asked him (his father) to buy me a bouquet of flowers that I could give to the young girl who was celebrating her birthday. […] My father came home with a cactus. […] I had to dodge the spiked shell which ended its earthly stay with its pot, against the wall. Luckily, I hadn’t taken it in the face. […] following this episode, I was not going to speak to my father for three years. […] My father systematically forbidden anything that could feed my pleasure. My inspiration.” A tyrannical father who offered his son a martyred childhood… but to whom today the singer admits having “forgiven”.
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