For the Bécaud clan, it had been a terrible loss: in September 2019, Anne’s house was ravaged by flames and a body had been discovered. The following month, the family then confirmed the death of the singer’s daughter. Crime or accident, all the rumors were rife. In the pages of the magazine Paris here, his half-sister returns to the drama.
Asked about this atrocious memory, Emily Bécaud – daughter of Gilbert Bécaud and Cathryn Lee St. John, born in 1972 – recounts: “A priori, it was a domestic accident. It was 6km from my home. Me and mom were there. We waited a very long time with hope. When reality arrives, you have to manage.“This is enough to restore the truth about what really happened that day, in Saint-Pierre-de-Maillé (Vienne). At the time, the vagueness persisted to understand in what conditions Anne had lost the life. “A month after the tragedy that befell our family, there is no longer any doubt that my sister Anne perished in the fire in her house. Why ? How? ‘Or’ What ? We do not know anything about the causes of his death, crime or accident. The investigation is ongoing, it will be long and life must go onEmily wrote on Facebook.
Anne Bécaud was born in 1961 from the artist’s first marriage to Monique Nicolas. During his life, the interpreter of cult songs My hands, Nathalie, The day when the rain will come and And now had become the father of six children! Today, her daughter Emily – also a singer – maintains as best she can the memory and musical heritage of the artist, who died twenty years ago. She notably performs her famous father’s classics on stage. “I interpret his great hits and others that we hear less. I feminize the concert a little“, she says. She does not hide that she regrets, however, that her illustrious father is not celebrated enough in France …”On the other hand, in the rest of the world, we hear it everywhere“, she swears.
Paris here, edition of December 22, 2021.