At 49, Benjamin Biolay is a discreet man about his relationships and his private life. But he delivers some pieces of his life, in a subtle way, in his texts. His fans can thus listen to his experience, his desires and his frustrations. his album St. Clairreleased on September 9, is very sensual, “like a surge of libido“, as reported by our colleagues from The Obs. The opportunity for the artist to engage on the subject, as rarely. “The libido is not inexhaustible, I know it, I spoke about it with old peoplesaid the singer. You should take advantage. I always liked love, sexsensuality, but I’m less hot than before.”
Benjamin Biolay makes it known that if there are many songs on this theme in Saint-Clair, it is for “create a summer atmosphere“.”We are coming out of a period of deprivation of interactions, the fantasy box was closedexplains the former husband of actress Chiara Mastroianni – mother of her eldest, Anna, born in 2003. Before the confinements, we went out, we met someone, and even without speaking to them, this meeting aroused the desire to write poetry.” “For months, everything that makes love life inspiring has disappeared“, laments the man who is also the father of a second daughter, born three years ago from a love affair in Argentina and whom he hardly sees. The artist also evokes the raw terms that pepper his latest installment.”If I want to write ‘big ass’I don’t censor myselfhe said. Dropping very vulgar words, I really like that at Ferré.“The Lyonnais continues:”I’ve never liked the stupid eroticism of replacing ‘he’s hard’ with ‘I feel a bulge in his fly’.”
Marriage witness of a former president
Discreet about his private life, he has recently been talked about in the press for his role as witness to the marriage of Julie Gayet, with whom he is friends. At the wedding of the actress and François Hollande, in Corrèze, he had a lot of fun. In the columns of Paris Match, Benjamin Biolay had made some secrets about the event. “It was great to be with François Hollande in Corrèze, where there is another way to see him. He’s someone I really like, I don’t feel like I’m friends with a former President of the Republic. Besides, when he got married, the mayor introduced him as a councilor to the Court of Auditorss [son premier vrai métier dans les années 1980, avant la politique, ndlr]“, he let know.