It is a loss that is still difficult for Herbert Léonard to accept. At 76, the French singer recently announced the tragic loss of a close friend to our colleagues in France Sunday, on newsstands since Sunday, December 5, 2021.
Currently in full preparation for his big comeback on stage – scheduled for February 2022 -, it is with a bruised heart that the husband of the singer Cléo had to announce that his faithful “partner in crime“and agent, René Sorre died. After accompanying the popular singer in his career for nearly thirty-five years, the manager died at the end of November. A new blow for the interpreter from the hit For Pleasure (1981), which in recent years has also been the subject of many health problems.
Health at risk
Because in 2017, Herbert Léonard experienced many health concerns. Victim of a pulmonary embolism, the latter had even been placed in an artificial coma for a period of thirty-two days. What had greatly worried his fans who had then rediscovered him very thin. A mishap from which he narrowly escaped, but which is not without consequences since four years after this story, the singer still has fragile health.
Very open to his private life, it is therefore without any filter that the singer had announced on November 17, via his Facebook page, his next intervention. “A third vascular surgery to repair (again) the damage that cigarettes – my most faithful companion – inflict on me“, he had indicated, before continuing not without optimism:”Painful surgery, then two months to recover and I’ll be ready to tackle life again. “
Find the interview with Herbert Léonard in full in the pages of France Sunday, already available from your newsagents.