“Warrior before the eternal, you overcame your suffering, without a complaint and with a smile”, wrote Etienne Daho in a letter to the singer and actress, who died at 76.
Marianne Faithfull, Iggy Pop, Etienne Daho… Tributes to Jane Birkin multiplied, Monday July 17, the day after the death of the singer and actress, at 76 years old. “My dearest Jane is gone“, wrote on social networks the singer Marianne Faithfull, another English artist who hatched during the “Swinging London” of the 1960s and later settled in Paris. “I admired him so much as an artist and I’m happy that we collaborated“, she said, also praising the style of the one she “dreamed“to imitate.
“Jane Birkin was a beautiful and unique woman“, reacted another pop-rock figure, Iggy Pop, in comments relayed by his entourage on Twitter.
Etienne Daho, his biggest fan
Perhaps the most moving tribute came from Etienne Daho, who wrote a long message to the address of the disappeared, Monday on social networks.
“I liked your unique voice, high pitched and so singular, your free, poetic and cheeky writing, your commitments. Always honest. Always light. Always too modest and generous, attributing your successes to others“, slide the “godfather“of French pop, who had composed her album with her Oh ! Sorry you were sleeping… (2020). “A moment of grace“, he recalls.
“We accompanied this chapter of your life on record and on stage. Defying all the laws of medicine, a warrior before the eternal, you overcame your suffering, without a complaint and with a smile, to win triumphant victories every evening, in front of an audience moved to tears. A lesson“, he says again in his letter.
Tribute to French song
From Sheila to Clara Luciani, passing by Benjamin Biolay, Alain Souchon and Françoise Hardy, many voices of French song have paid tribute to Jane Birkin.
The singer Miossec also said he was moved by his disappearance. “Jane Birkin was the first to pick me up for lyrics“, underlines the Brestois at Telegramrecalling Jane Birkin’s attachment to Finistère, where she had a house.
After Hermès, which had created a bag in his name, the artistic director of Balmain, Olivier Rousteing, the stylist Jacquemus, it is the turn of the fashion designer Hedi Slimane to pay homage to him. He posted on Instagram a photo of Birkin in a tuxedo and white shirt for a 2016 Saint Laurent campaign, along with lyrics by ex sixties fan.