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Music: “It’s my words, it’s my music”, describes Éric Cantonna about his first album
Music: “It’s my words, it’s my music”, describes Éric Cantonna about his first album
(France 2)
After a football career in Manchester (United Kingdom), “Eric the King” was an actor in theater and cinema. From now on, Éric Cantona is launching into music with an album composed entirely by himself, “Cantona sings Eric”. Encounter.
After theater, cinema, painting, Éric Cantona ventures into song. After ending his international football career at the age of 30, “I knew I was going to enter this artistic world”, he said. With a record that he entirely wrote and composed, Cantona sings Ericit fills a visceral need to express oneself. “I made theater with the words of others. There, it’s my words, it’s my music”he enthuses.
A first concert in Manchester
As with sport and theater, music allows Éric Cantona to enter a new world and vibrate. And it was in Manchester (United Kingdom), the city that made him king, that he gave his very first concert. “It was my dream, so I wanted it to be in Manchester”explains the artist.
