If there is one element of life that no one can fight against, it is the passage of time. And Maxime Le Forestier is not going to say the opposite. Aged 74, the singer is aware that he is no longer 20 years old and the energy of his youth. A relationship to age and the passage of time that he also wanted to discuss this Tuesday, May 9 when he came to “Totemic” on France Inter.
Faced with Rebecca Manzoni, the interpreter of “San Francisco” first had to respond to the journalist who reminded him: “For the songs that feed this double live album, you only take the guitar for two songs I think. Why do you put this guitar aside?”. “There is an excuse which is that I broke my arm a week before the start of rehearsals for this concert”he confessed to his interlocutor before continuing: “The three guitarists I play with had taken up all the space and when I got my arm back, I didn’t know where to put myself.”.
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The artist, powerless in the face of time
But in addition to having broken his arm, the one who saw his son on stage at his side on France 2 has another explanation for this. He no longer has the same ardor as before and the same ability to play the guitar. “And then, there is also an observation which is unfortunately true, it is that as we age, we lose a little velocity”, he notes before showing humor: “I found that my son was playing better than me. In fact, there is almost nothing left but the voice of the 74-year-old artist.
An asset that he “still working”because “it’s a muscle”. “I had a singing teacher called Raymonde Viret, who still teaches – she’s 99 – who says: ‘the voice is a bitch, if you don’t maintain it, it breaks!'”, he also recalled. Even if he can no longer play the guitar as before, Maxime Le Forestier seems in great shape and this can reassure his audience.
Maxime Le Forestier, victim of discomfort on stage
Indeed, in December 2022, it returned to the pages of theObs about the cancer he had fought the year before. It was “thanks” to a discomfort on stage that the disease was diagnosed to him. “Last year, in Épinay, on December 3, I fainted in the middle of a concert. It had to have its effect in the room”he said.
In the end, it was the ENT specialist at the Institut Curie who told him the news, but “did not utter the word ‘cancer’ either. I understood it when he prescribed a series of thirty-five radiotherapy sessions”. Today, the artist is cured and ready to find his public.
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