Tributes follow one another as Dani bowed out on Tuesday, July 19, 2022. The singer, magazine leader, actress, model died at the age of 77. After becoming unwell, she was taken to hospital in Tours, where she was domiciled, but unfortunately did not survive, as revealed by her manager Lambert Boudier. A disappearance that has troubled a large number of celebrities who have had the chance to meet her. This Wednesday, July 20, the day after the death, it is the turn ofEmmanuel and Brigitte Macron to send him a few wordsat this “free artist who loved night and life, songs and flowers“.
“Her last album, Attention depart, seemed to warn us that she would leave us soon“, begins the press release, the same words used by his faithful friend Etienne Daho, to pay tribute to him. The press release recalls the past of the artist, a young saleswoman in Perpignan, who also took evening sewing lessons. 19 years old, she landed in Paris and quickly made her mark on the left bank, from the Café de Flore to Chez Castel. She even had her club, avenue Victor Hugo in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, L’Aventure. But the Elysée also wants to remember his titles, his Olympia, his tour with Claude François and Alain Chamfort.
Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron’s words to his family
“Twice, she was approached to represent our colors at Eurovision, but she played with misfortune: selected in 1974 to interpret ‘La Vie à 25 ans’, she had to give up when France, in mourning for President Georges Pompidou, retire from competition“, writes the President of the Republic, in this press release. This “androgynous brunette” was not satisfied with a hit hoisted high in the French repertoire, like a boomerangin duet with Etienne Daho, she also burst the screens, in particular in The American night. It is to this artist who had several lives that Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte wanted to pay a beautiful tribute. “The President of the Republic and his wife salute a free artist who loved the night and lifesongs and flowerscan we read at the end. They send their heartfelt condolences to his family, friends and admirers.“