Marianne Faithfull, Iggy Pop, Etienne Daho… Tributes multiplied Monday after the death of singer and actress Jane Birkin, found dead at her home at 76 years old.
“My dearest Jane is gone,” wrote singer Marianne Faithfull on social media, also an English artist who hatched during the “Swinging London” of the 1960s and later settled in Paris.
“I admired her so much as an artist and I’m happy that we collaborated,” she says, also praising the style of the one she “dreamed” of emulating.
“Jane Birkin was a beautiful and unique woman,” reacted another pop-rock figure, Iggy Pop, in comments relayed by those around her on Twitter.
Perhaps the most moving tribute came from Etienne Daho, who wrote a long message to the address of the disappeared, Monday on social networks.
“I liked your unique voice, high pitched and so singular, your free, poetic and cheeky writing, your commitments. Always honest. Always light. Always too modest and generous, attributing your successes to others”, slips the “godfather” of French pop, who had co-composed his album with her Oh ! Sorry you were sleeping… (2020).
“A moment of grace,” he recalls.
“We accompanied this chapter of your life on record and on stage. Defying all the laws of medicine, a warrior before the eternal, you overcame your suffering, without a complaint and with a smile, to win triumphant victories every evening, in front of an audience moved to tears. A lesson,” he says again in his letter.
From Sheila to Clara Luciani, passing by Benjamin Biolay, Alain Souchon and Françoise Hardy, many voices of French song have paid tribute to Jane Birkin.
The singer Miossec also said he was moved by his disappearance. “Jane Birkin was the first to come and get me for words”, underlines the Brestois, at the Telegramrecalling Jane Birkin’s attachment to Finistère, in the west of France, where she had a house.
After Hermès, which created a bag in his name, Olivier Rousteing (Balmain), Jacquemus, it’s fashion designer Hedi Slimane’s turn to pay homage to him. He posted on Instagram a photo of Birkin in a tuxedo and white shirt for a 2016 Saint Laurent campaign, along with lyrics byEx fan of the sixties.