When asked if he likes to celebrate his birthdays, Michel Fugain replies that in principle not but that this one is special. “80, that seems to me to be a great date (…) for the moment, I find that the results are quite positive”, smiles the singer. For him, these 80 springs are also an opportunity to take a look in the rear view mirror.
Born May 12, 1942 in Grenoble, son of a communist doctor “bright red“, in his own words, he was destined for a career in the cinema. When he left Isère for Paris, at the age of 21, he began as an assistant director. He worked in particular with Yves Robert. friends, he enrolled in a comedy class where he met the young Michel Sardou, and it was for him that he composed his first melodies. “I realized that I liked it, I liked to look for tunes” he admits. “Without Michel Sardou, I would not be here today”.
A nice story, The party, Attention Ladies and Gentlemen, Do like the bird, The Acadians, Viva la vida…the artist’s hits have rocked many French people. However, the singer does not say he is proud, just satisfied. On stage, he placed the portraits of two of his lyricist friends: Pierre Delanoë and Maurice Vidalin. The latter is the author ofon favorite title: The Red Cloth. This song, often heard in the demonstrations of the 70s and 80s, is the only one he recognizes to be proud because “andShe was chosen by proles, guys who were fighting for their dignity, to assert their rights (…) it’s my way of parading with them”, says Michael Fugain.
The lyrics of one of his most famous songs say to sing as if we were to die tomorrow. He recognizes with a smile that “it’s a bit drastic” but that “ideally” you have to sing, go out with your friends, eat, love as if you were to die tomorrow since tomorrow is always uncertain.
The singer, a humanist like his father, says “believing in nothing but man“. However, he takes an icon out of his pocket, entrusted to him by his wife Sanda, Romanian and Orthodox. The singer, who has lived in Corsica for 30 years, has fun: “It’s everywhere in my house, but hey, I love it so I suffer. She slips this to me, she tells me it will bring you luck“. When we see him on stage, dancing like a young man, his voice unchanged, we say to ourselves that Madame Fugain may not be entirely wrong…