With her personality and her voice, Maurane knew how to seduce the crowds. But on May 7, 2018, the music scene lost one of its biggest stars. On this same date, the interpreter of “You are my other” was found dead at her home in Schaerbeek on the outskirts of Brussels. At the time, the announcement of his disappearance had the effect of a bomb in the media. While rumors were rife, the thesis of the accident was favored after the opening of an investigation.
“She was found dead coming out of her bath. It’s totally unexpected,” revealed Marc Lumbroso, the artistic director and close to the singer for “Le Parisien”.“She had especially big back problems and sometimes had trouble moving around. And that had consequences on her voice. She was undergoing a rather painful infiltration treatment which also had digestive side effects.
This Sunday, May 7, 2023 for the fifth anniversary of the death of the icon, our colleagues from “RTBF” broadcast a documentary called “Mô, Maurane a thousand times” which retraces his entire career. Facing the camera, Maurane’s entourage spoke about the artist’s moments of doubt. Due to his vocal cord health concerns, Pablo’s ex-girlfriend Villafranca went through a veritable descent into hell, and edema was the cause of all her ailments! “It really undermined him. It was very rough. I think it crossed her mind that she’ll never get her voice back.”said Lou Villafranca, the daughter of Maurane.
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“She suffered a lot…”
In front of his relatives, the interpreter of “One for the other” has often shared his concerns. “She explained to me her voice problems, which she did not understand. She had been operated. The operation had gone very well. So it was not a surgical sequelae”, assured the musician Arnould Massart in the report and to add : ‘”She said to me : ‘JI don’t know what’s happening to me, I can’t do it, it doesn’t come out the way it used to‘”.Salvatore Adamo who knew her well did his best to support her: “During the time that her vocal problem lasted, she suffered a lot.”
Fortunately, Maurane was able to regain her vocal power. Neither one nor two, the main interested party then distinguished herself in the studio. To the delight of her audience, she has thus honored a sizeable repertoire: an album of covers of songs by Jacques Brel unveiled in 2018. A last project that has aroused passions…
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