“It’s time for me to stop.” It is with these words that The Parisian titled the interview with Serge Lama in its edition published this Saturday, October 8. The 79-year-old singer is promoting his new album To like released this Friday, October 7. A rather special album because it is the very last of his rich career.
In this interview, the interpreter of I am sick discusses his new album, the highlights of his career but also his relationship with his wife Luana Santonino also present during this interview. The singer also shares the title Love me with his wife in his new album. “I knew she sang really well. She worked a lot before accepting“, expresses the singer in the interview alongside his wife Luana who admits to having been taken by “stupor and tremors“ to the idea of singing with her husband.
I was tomato red
Serge Lama and Luana met in 2002. At the time, Serge Lama was at the height of his musical career when Luana Santonino, a former schoolteacher in Switzerland and 25-year-old tennis player, decided to see him in concert in Switzerland. . “I was driving in the car, I heard a song from him. I thought to myself, this man has things to say“, she told the Parisian. And to add:At the time of the dedications, I asked him to reverse the roles, I wrote to him: ‘Life is a safe full of secrets, never lose the key.’ Then I had run away, I was tomato red.” Subsequently, Serge Lama and the beautiful Luana meet again six months later at the end of a concert, accumulate one-on-ones and this is the beginning of a beautiful love story. “Our fate was sealed“, adds the second before adding: “We are one. It’s a merger.“
A love story that leads them to their wedding in February 2021. In the meantime, Luana has become Serge Lama’s manager in place of another manager who died the same year. The young woman has something to be complimentary of her husband: “It’s love that guides me in song. Without it, I would have thrown in the towel”she admits.
The full interview with Serge Lama can be read in The Parisian from Saturday October 8, 2022.