The Christmas holidays will not be celebrated without the Cabrel family. Aurélie, the singer’s eldest daughter, takes out a lovely Advent tale to read every evening before the fateful December 25, entitled L’Effet Noël. Singer, restaurateur, she had already released a children’s book, Zélie the pirate at the end of 2020. And for good reason. Having become a mother, the multifaceted artist felt herself growing wings. “It was a revelation, she explains to France Sunday. Very focused on art for a long time, I have always been keen to read pretty books to my children. I love these moments of reading, like the evening story for example. With us, it’s a real tradition. “
Married since 1974 to interior designer Mariette Darjo, Francis Cabrel is the father of three daughters. Aurélie, who is 35 years old, Manon, born in 1990 and Thiu, whom he adopted in Vietnam in 2004, when she was three months old. The singer therefore became a grandfather in the greatest discretion. The clan mostly lives in Astaffort, in Lot-et-Garonne, where Aurélie took over a family business by organizing the reopening of the hotel-restaurant Le Square in 2018.
A lot of shyness and modesty
“With my father, of course, I bathed in music, she recalls. At home, there was always a guitar lying around, a piano, and he, a very hard worker, kept repeating. So there was always music playing in the background. And then already at the time, in the South-West, we all lived together at my grandmother’s.“Today, Aurélie has a lovely relationship with her father Francis Cabrel,”completely normal“, mixture of mutual respect and common passions.”A lot of shyness and modesty too, she adds. Nothing incredible after all.“It remains to be seen who will read The Christmas Effect, to the children, while waiting until the passage of the big man in red …
Find the interview with Aurélie Cabrel in the magazine France Dimanche, n ° 3925.