He was to go on the stage of La Cigale in November 2020, long before we heard about the Covid-19 and the pandemic depriving artists of concerts and sharing with their audience for too long already. However, Manu Lanvin did indeed have to cancel his performance. However, the virus that has been crippling life around the world for two years has nothing to do with this cancellation as some might have thought. Indeed, the son of Gérard Lanvin had to resolve to postpone his date for a much more serious concern which almost cost him his life. “I had gone to Morocco to isolate myself with my musicians and prepare for the concert at La Cigale which was originally supposed to take place in November 2020”recalls the artist in the columns of Figaro, before revealing the reason forcing him to cancel his performance: “Last evening I went down the road on a motorbike. I was going too fast, I had a helmet on but I didn’t see a roundabout appear out of nowhere and I crossed it in the middle. I’m fell, broke several ribs but above all I hit the ground violently with one of my big rings.”
An accident much more serious than he would have thought: “The shock was substantial and my right hand, in particular a finger, had an open fracture”. Gérard Lanvin’s son, being alone at the scene of the accident, was then forced to “push his motorbike for five kilometres” before finding someone to help him. Once entered the hospital, the artist immediately went to the pool table to have the operation. However, before being plunged into sleep for the intervention, the surgeon made him a chilling announcement which worried him a lot about his job as a guitarist: “I was very scared because before falling asleep the surgeon told me that he might have to amputate the fourth finger on my right hand. As a guitarist and right-handed, my most important hand is the left, it’s the one with which I make the agreements but still…”
In the end, more fear than harm for Manu Lanvin who claimed to have been able to keep all his fingers and be able to continue playing thanks to “rehabilitation with a hand specialist who knows the musicians well” in Paris.
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