“Hello everyone, my new album, ‘Under a Lead Sun’, will be released on Friday, November 10. I put all my energy and all my heart into it, but it will be the last of my career. A recurring voice problem leaves me in constant uncertainty, and I never know from one day to the next what the state of my voice will be. It’s manageable for recording because I can choose the moment when I’m at my best, but not for going on tour or to promote. Faced with this dilemma, I prefer to stop. I thank you all for following me for over 30 years, and for offering me such a great career.”. It was on Instagram that Gérald De Palmas announced on October 10, 2023, that he would no longer go on stage.
A career at the top
At the age of 55, the singer-songwriter is one of the most successful in French song (along with Patrick Bruel, Jean-Jacques Goldman and Pascal Obispo). Besides his own hits, “On the road“, “Walk in the sand”“To fall“, he also wrote several tracks on the album”To life, to death” of
Johnny Hallyday, whose hit “Marie”. An activity that he should not give up, even if the singer admits that he will no longer be able to tour.
A change in schedule which should give him a little more time to spend with his family, in particular. Gérald De Palmas is the father of two children, Victor, born in 1996, and Rose, born in 2003, the fruit of his love affair with Gwen who was his companion for 16 years of marriage.
What is his son doing?
Divorced for a while, they raised beautiful children together. While the singer returned to live in Reunion, his eldest, aged 27, now lives in Barcelona (Spain), as his Linkedin profile says. There, he founded a solar panel installation company, SolarMente. And if he studied between Montreal (Canada) and Santiago de Chile, his little sister, Rose, was based in London (United Kingdom) with her mother, before heading to Vancouver, still in Canada, where she is currently a student at the University of British Columbia, again according to Linkedin. He’s going to take planes, Gérald!
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