This Friday, April 22, some relatives of Claude Véga gathered to bid him a final farewell. The funeral of the French humorist and actor took place in the Notre-Dame-de-Lorette church in Paris. It was on April 11 that Claude Véga died at the age of 91. He bowed out after countless years of making his audience laugh. A disappearance which had terribly shaken Laurent Ruquier who made his pain known. “Goodbye to Claude Véga, 91, one of the pioneers of imitation“, he wrote on Instagram.
This Friday, April 22, other personalities had made the trip to the funeral of the illustrious actor. We were able to see the singer Hervé Vilard, to whom we owe in particular Capri is over, or even Frédéric Mitterrand. Claude Véga was widely known for his skills as an impersonator. The artist had been at the origin of the launch of this art, in France, by embodying on stage many female stars, but also Montand or Dutronc. For his funeral today, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, Frédéric Longbois (The Voice 7 ) and Delphine Bürkli, mayor of the district were also present.
Born Claude Thibaudat, June 2, 1930, the imitator was a real women lovers. “It is enough for me to think of them to transform myself into them. A detail, a ‘defect’, a way of speaking and I caught them“, he had explained. And his “victims“did not complain about his art, even laughing out loud in the face of his performances, seeing themselves aped on the boards. Claude Véga was also a key figure in the shows of Maritie and Gilbert Carpentier.
The emotion of Laurent Ruquier
As for Laurent Ruquier, during the announcement of his disappearance, the famous animator said he was delighted to have been able to know him. “He was the voices of Barbara, Greco, Mouskouri, La callas Annie Girardot, Jacqueline Maillan, Zouc, De Funès, Delphine Seyrig, Maria Pacôme… Frédéric Lebon and Patrick Adler had followed in his footsteps. His Carpentier ‘Top à…’ were big popular hits. I was moved to share a few scenes with him, when I started out in cabarets“, had shared the famous producer on Instagram, a few hours after the announcement of his death.