Didier Barbelivien wrote great songs, for himself but also for others. Many are those who have called on his services: Johnny Hallyday, Enrico Macias, Patricia Kaas, Christophe or Gilbert Montagné to name but a few. Without Didier Barbelivien, The Sunlights of the tropics would never have existed. We dare not imagine…
Essential in the musical landscape, Didier Barbelivien is now back with an album in which he performs. The very last of his career, he says, and which is eponymous. It must be said that this 12-track opus available since October 21 and presented as an envelope almost never saw the light of day.
Remember, in June 2020, Didier Barbelivien announced that he had thought carefully during confinement. Because he had a polyp located at the level of the vocal cords, the singer had ended up following the advice of the doctors by opting for the operation. He couldn’t sing anymore.
The intervention had finally arrived a few months later and in October Didier Barbelivien gave his news to the Berry Republican, while he was in concert on the stage of the Cité de l’or, in Saint-Amand-Montrond. “I sing better than when I was 30!he enthused. My surgeon told me: ‘You have been singing since the age of 16 without ever saving up’. I had been singing 4 to 5 hours a day for forty years and in the end, you have to understand that it wears off. The operation went very well. It is very complicated to operate on the vocal cords. Surgery is still something exceptional. It’s the first time I’ve sung since my operation.” But what Didier Barbelivien did not say at the time was that he almost died.
On October 30, 2022, the Sunday newspaper reports that the singer suffered from sepsis after the operation which gave him back his voice”young man“. “You narrowly escaped the Michel Drucker special“now jokes Didier Barbelivien in reference to the serious health problems that had affected the host of Can’t wait for Sunday. Everything is now back to normal for the singer and that is the most important thing.