That voice she has! The same. So unusually rough for the young woman of thirty years ago, so naturally rough now. Had to justify the wear and tear, I guess. The strangeness of this momentary return to Quebec lies elsewhere: it is less our Térez that we find than the singer jazzy Franco-French who comes to celebrate three decades of a career which was fading here at the turn of the century and which was a hit there, to the point of reviving it to this day. To hear him repeat Reach Out (I’ll Be There) in the adaptation by Claude François (I’ll wait), Then Don’t Make Me Over in the style of Nancy Holloway (Don’t go like that) well symbolizes this assumed choice. Something to please and last. His interpretations jazzy are very cabaret chic, and the professional French instrumentation, polished and varnished, gives the whole thing something artificial. THE She’s not there (Zombies) and Be my Baby (of the Ronettes), in this agreed format, seem to accompany a dinner with a bunch of services. Same voice, different world.
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