“It was the blues that made me want to make music”

It is in the middle of an ocean of pianos that Michel Jonasz meets the teams of France 2, in the shop where his mother had bought him his first instrument when he could not play three notes. Since then, he has chained the tubes.Dn his new album, he pays homage to the blues, his favorite musical style. “It’s always been there, the blues, it’s the music that made me want to do it, so I didn’t move away to better come back to it”explains Michel Jonasz.

The blues, “it’s like when you need to talk”

Is it because the blues lends itself better to his personal story? “The blues to me is like when you need to talk, when you need to call a buddy, see or meet a friend“, he confides. If he had to choose only one song from his repertoire, Michel Jonasz would choose Red ants. A song “that I never get tired of, that I sing at every show“, he says.