On October 3, Bernard Tapie passed away as a result of metastasized stomach and esophageal cancers. A disappearance which was inevitably a painful ordeal for his daughter, Sophie. Shortly before her death, she split a song called “Phoenix”, a piece written “tailor-made” for her father. “How to describe what I feel when I make you discover this clip. A mixture of great modesty and letting go, in order to give him the courage and the strength to continue to fight that I wanted to deliver in this text that I ‘ve written tailor-made for him“, she wrote on social networks in August 2021.
This Sunday, May 1, the one who participated in season 2 of “The Voice” was the guest of Michel Drucker, in “Vivement dimanche dimanche”. The opportunity for Sophie Tapie to discuss the release of the reissue of her album “1988”, renamed “1988, reborn from its ashes”, in its augmented version. The 34-year-old artist returned to this title and the death of her father: “Unfortunately, cancer really is the disease of the century. It was important to me to make a song about it, and to try to give courage. When one is touched by cancer, the family is too. It’s a very long process, of assimilation, of false hope, but my father always had this thing of giving people courage”said Sophie Tapie.
In this album, Sophie Tapie also has a title on a heavy subject, that of domestic violence. And to be “as fair as possible”, the singer reveals that she called on people who were directly affected, including host Laurence Boccolini. “She’s a former battered woman. I called on her”, she explained.