The year 2022 will not be done without Garou! The singer, who has just revealed his new title Up Scene, is about to embark on a giant tour in partnership with RFM, in France, Belgium and Switzerland. And it’s a slightly different artist that everyone will discover on stage, in his live medley mixing Charles Aznavour, The Supremes, Marvin Gaye or Stevie Wonder. Definitely more folk, “roots thoroughly“, he admits to having been influenced by a member of his family … his 20-year-old daughter, Emelie.
As he already revealed on France 2 in the show We are live, Garou bought, during the pandemic period, a maple ukulele for his daughter, who had always refused to engage in music. Working in astrophysics, she nevertheless revealed a crazy talent which largely inspired her father. 24 hours after picking up the instrument, she was already sending video tunes to her father. Then she started to compose … and to try the adventure in family with dad.
The collaboration was, alas, short-lived. “Daddy don’t like it. You enter my bubble, it annoys me“, she would have said to him, as he tells it to Bernard Montiel, at the microphone of RFM, on November 28, 2021.”I said ok sorry, so can I steal bits of songs from you?“And he did not deprive himself. Garou translated a song written and composed by Emelie and stole a piece of music for another new song, which he will undoubtedly play on stage during his new tour.”I tried to teach her the piano, the guitar, she didn’t want to, however, he recalled on France 2. She was like stuck, saying to herself: ‘this is daddy’s, nobody’s going to listen to my stuff, I don’t want to’. And for the ukulele, she hugged me, she was so happy!“