his tour, UpScene, is played on the razor’s edge. Garou may want to get back on the boards, but the dates noted in his diary until next October are constantly being postponed and modified. But the main thing is that the music endures. Before being able to find the stage, the 49-year-old artist had spent more time than expected alone in Quebec, in his forest, producing maple syrup … and enjoying, a little, his daughter Emelie , fruit of his relationship with the Swedish model Ulrika.
She tells me too much sometimes!
Garou always regretted having been an absent dad for her and he made up for lost time as best he could. Today, Emelie is 20 years old and her father cannot believe it when he pronounces this number. “I find it hard to watch her grow. I see her as if she were 7 years old again”, explains Hélène Ségara’s great friend to Laurent Mariotte, on Europe 1 on April 10, 2022. The distance between them, harsh as it was, made their relationship unique. “We have so many things to tell each other that we tell each other the depths of life and that creates a relationship that has nothing to do with routinehe continues. When we meet up with my daughter, we drive two hours and then blah-blah-blah. She tells me too much sometimes! I don’t want to know everything!“
Yet he has his ears wide open when it comes to Emelie. During the pandemic period, Garou offered a maple ukulele to his daughter when she had always refused to make music. Within 24 hours, the young woman had already adopted the instrument and was beginning to compose… tunes that Dad quickly appropriated. With her permission, of course, he translated a title she had written and stole a piece of music that he used to create a new one, which he plays during his tour. – when this can take place. “Tried to teach her piano, guitar, she wouldn’the lamented, however. She was like stuck, saying to herself: ‘that’s daddy’s, no one is going to listen to my stuff, I don’t want to’. And for the ukulele, she jumped into my arms, she was so happy !”