Of this generation of artists, he was one of the last still active but it is now over: at 79, Serge Lama hangs up the microphone and finally leaves the stage after almost 60 years of career. His new album, To likewill be the last of a very long series, a decision that the artist did not have such a hard time making. His body is indeed hurting him too much to continue..
In an interview for our colleagues from Parisian in recent days, this one has indeed revealed that everything is coming of an event that occurred in the year of his 22nd birthday, which still paralyzes him today. “I have too much pain related to the after-effects of my accident“, he explains, referring to a serious car accident that took place in the summer of 1965.
At the time, the singer was on tour in the south of France and began to make himself known. Accompanied by Lilianne, his girlfriend, he leaves by car with his impresario Jean-Claude Ghrenassia, also the brother of Enrico Macias. During the trip, the vehicle crashed very violently into a tree. Serge Lama will be the only survivorbut the consequences of this shock will never be erased.
“I started walking eighteen months after this tragedy, but I have suffered all my life from lower back pain that shoots into my leg. It got unbearable today“, he says. An end to his career caused, therefore, by an accident 57 years old, but which will allow the singer to take care of his wife, Luana, his “Lu”a former Swiss tennis player whom he married in February 2021. Aged 45, the one who became his manager has been in a relationship with the singer for 20 years, and describes himself as “merger” with her husband. “We are one” she reveals in the same interview, explaining that she has “immediately trustedwhen they first metafter a concert.
“Our first meeting was an electric shock, I was 25 years old, little love experience. I felt like my life was going to change as soon as I heard it on the radio. Hands of fate pushed us together“, explains the young woman who agreed, for several years, to live with the singer while he was married to Michèle Potier, the mother of her son Frédéric, who finally died in 2016.