At 77, Dani has bowed out. The multi-talented artist fell ill at home in the Tours region before being taken to hospital. Unfortunately, she did not survive. His manager and producer Lambert Boudier announced the news on social networks: “The production of DANI has the infinite sadness to announce his death. She had just finished touring her album Horizons Dorés and she was already finishing the mixes for a new album, which she had mischievously chosen to call Attention Depart. We were warned, she had just forgotten to tell us that it would be imminent.”
The death of the singer has had the effect of a shock, in the world of music and elsewhere. At his funeral, we could count on Mathilde Seigner, Gérard Lanvin, Cali, Anthony Delon as well as the closest to the image of Véronique, sister of Dani, and Julien and Emmanuel, his two boys. If the first is the fruit of his love with Benjamin Auger, the second was born from a previous relationship with the photographer. He was only 6 months old when father and son left the mother to settle with Dani, the one who will become his mother.
As Gala reveals it in its pages this Thursday, July 28, Dani, “not very friendly with all that is administrative“, ended up adopting it. The steps were long and were not finalized “that this year.” Danièle Graule, her real name, has never made any differences between her two boys. She said it herself, she considered Emmanuel as her own son: “When I was expecting Julien, one day, Emmanuel put his hand on my belly and asked if he too was fidgeting like this. I answered him: “No, you, I found you all done, when I took you in my arms, you moved very strongly”. I dropped him off at school and burst into tears.“
Close to his sons, Dani would have liked to be able to see them more often. Life had decided otherwise, for his greatest misfortune: “I cry every day because I don’t see them enough (…) It’s the only place where I feel like a grandma, they take care of me as if I were bedridden.“Each time they saw their mother, their hearts made Booms and Bangs. This Tuesday, July 26, it was hand in hand that Julien and Emmanuel accompanied Dani to his last home, before a mass expected next September in Paris, not far from the residence she has long occupied in the capital.