Francis Cabrel retired to a green paradise, settling down in Astaffort, the region where the 68-year-old singer spent most of his childhood. Passionate about wine, he also owns a hotel-restaurant, The square, managed by his daughter Aurélie Cabrel. This discreet girl, who turns 36, this Saturday, July 30, 2022, has apparently given up on her singing career. She who resembles him so physically had already admitted in the past to have suffered from his famous surname.
In October 2011, Aurélie Cabrel, then 25 years old, released her first album Oserais-je?. In promo, she accepted an interview with our colleagues from the newspaper Le Parisien, and confided the difficulty of having sometimes wear this surname. “With my sisters [Manon, 32 ans, et Thiu, 18 ans qu’il a adoptée au Vietnam en 2004, quand elle avait trois mois, ndlr], we were protected from the press, but at school we suffered. I’ve already had my face kicked because of this. When I got a good mark, I was told it was because I was Cabrel’s daughter. I was told that my father lived only for him and that was why my mother worked. It was traumatic, but it forges character, it allowed me to make a beautiful album.“
The discreet Aurélie Cabrel therefore decided to make it a strength and refused to sing under a pseudonym, fully assuming to be a Cabrel. “People said to me: ‘You should take a nickname.‘ It was never about“, she said. Like Thomas Dutronc or Izïa Higelin, the daughter of Francis Cabrel preferred to make only a first name. If she has long revolved around this desire to sing, starting with managing groups six years older early, she seems today to have turned this page but keeps a foot in the music.Indeed, she has her own music label Baboo Music and recently produced the artist from Astaffort Mayu, who released her first single on July 1 A sensitive Brazilian musician, author and performer.