A page is turning in the career of Francis Cabrel. After 3 years of absence, the singer of “Little Marie”“I loved you, I love you and I will love you” or “I love him to death” releases a forty-five rpm and a song in streaming, this October 13, 2023. And for the first time since his first album on the CBS label, in 1977, the man with the strong South-West accent is unfaithful to his house record label, Sony Music and publishes on Baboo Music, the label created by his daughter Aurélie in their town of Astaffort (Lot-et-Garonne).
“To give my daughter a helping hand“
To our colleagues at Parisianhe admitted this Friday: “It’s a first”. And regarding the cover of the record, which he designed himself, he explains: “This is the landscape that I see from my window, when the birds pass by”. Humbly, Francis Cabrel added: “I like to draw from time to time, but hey, it’s not…”
The 69-year-old star adds: “Everything is a first in this project.” And to justify himself: “I’m releasing on a label that’s not Sony, I still had to explain to them that it was to give a helping hand to my daughter who has a small label and is fighting with young artists.“Her eldest daughter is Aurélie, born in 1986, and she has two other sisters, Manon, born in 1990 and Thiu, born in Vietnam and adopted in 2004 at three months old.
“Say as much as possible with as few words as possible“
Will Francis Cabrel talk about his family in his memoirs? For now, the only thing he was willing to say to Le Parisien about this book in preparation is that he is currently writing “on the beginnings of his life, why he arrived from his countryside to Paris”. And to add: “I’m stuck on page 50. With my habit of tightening everything up… for 50 years I’ve been trying to say the most with the minimum of words in my songs… if I write about my whole life, I maybe I’ll get to 250 pages. Maybe I should do that.”
F.A.