We know him for his hits “Place of great men”, “Who has the right”or “Breaking Voice”. But many are unaware that Patrick Bruel had a career… in rap. Or rather, produced a huge box of this musical register. He also mentioned this “era” during his time with Éric Dussart in “We redo the TV” on RTL. If the full interview is to be found this Saturday, May 6, our colleagues from Tele-Leisure relayed an excerpt from the show, in which the 63-year-old artist talks about his “passion” for rap.
“Few people know it but you produced, Patrick Bruel, the first rap title in France, at the beginning of the 1980s, this huge hit”, reminds Éric Dussart to his guest. Because yes, as surprising as it may seem, the ex of Amanda Sthers is the producer of “Everyone does (whatever he pleases)”. Released in 1981, this title is considered the first rap song in French and was a huge success.
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French rap can thank Patrick Bruel
Patrick Bruel explained how this project came about. “With Yves Martin, we come back from New York and with Gérard Presgurvic, we make songs. And at one point, there is this song which was called ‘Cinq heures du mat’ at the time. I liked it a lot and I absolutely wanted to make the model“, he recalls. However, his idea almost never saw the light of day.
Indeed, Léon’s father, who has also just started in music, recalls that Yves Martin had to convince him for a long time before he agreed to transform the piece into a rap: “Yves said to me ‘No, with that, that’s not what you have to do. We have to rap!’. I said to him ‘No, but are you serious there?’. He replies ‘Yes, a rap! We just spent a year and a half in New York, we only listened to rap, we come back to France and there is no rap, there has never been any in French, it would be the first French rap. Do you realize?'”. Subsequently, legendary groups such as IAM and NTM emerged.
But this revelation may explain the recent announcement of the 63-year-old artist. The latter having expressed his dream of making a duet… with Jay-Z during a previous visit to RTL March 30, 2023.
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