In addition to being an excellent actor, Gerard Lanvin also masters his voice perfectly. The 73-year-old actor also released an album on May 21, 2021. A first, called Down here, thus formalizing its transition from the 7th to the 4th art. A new project in which he embarked with his son Manu, singer-songwriter and producer. It was the latter who composed the music for his father’s project. “I wanted to share ideas. In cinema, it’s complicated, you have to write a script, you have to express two or three sentences. There, it highlights the words. We don’t need to overplay them , to shout them. We just need to say them and try to sing them. It has a much greater force.”told Gerard Lanvin has France TV
while his first album had not yet seen the light of day.
For his first album, the two-time César winner was not shy. Indeed, its titles talk about women victims of domestic violence or politicians. Since its release in 2021, Down here enjoys great success. And this, without any promotion, as André Bercoff reminded us
on the waves of South Radio
. The journalist indeed received Gerard Lanvin
this Friday October 13, 2023 on the radio. The opportunity to talk about this transition from cinema to music and this success despite the absence of promotion.
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Manu Lanvin, not recognized at his true value according to his father
“Gérard Lanvin, there was no huge media coverage at the start, to say the least, and you filled the rooms”greeted André Bercoff before his guest responded: “But that’s the advantage of having worked with Manu, how to put it, on something powerful. Because Manu is an artist that, for my part… well, I’m a fan of my son! ‘” Admiring his son, the actor recalled that the latter seduced Quincy Jones, the famous American trumpeter, who asked him to go to the United States to work with him.
For several years now, Manu Lanvin has been someone “very recognized in the world of blues” as his father recalled. This is why Gérard Lanvin says to himself “surprised that a show like Taratata” never invited him. “I don’t care, I’m famous, but I don’t understand why he’s never been asked to come and sing in such an important show in terms of broadcasting”, he lamented. Who knows, maybe Nagui understood the message that was transmitted?
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