This Friday, February 10, 2023, the singer will celebrate a double event: his Victory of Honor, awarded by the Victoires de la Musique, as well as his 80th birthday. This Sunday, February 5, Serge Lama spoke at length with our colleagues from Sunday newspaper on the occasion of these two festivities. Heartbreaking secrets that look like a farewell to the public: “I retire, but I have no regrets. Of course, I will feel a void. But I have plans“, he assures, specifying above all that he will not sing on the stage of the Victoires de la Musique ceremony. “It was my only condition to accept this price. I don’t want to show myself today. I prefer to stay on what I was. Even if it was already trying, my last tour, in 2017, was great, I defended my songs well.” The famous popular singer indeed believes: “Today, I would have to sing sitting down. This is not what the public wants to see… Physically, I am very damaged. I have great difficulty walking. You know, it’s difficult. I have been living on one leg for almost sixty years. The other does not obey me and it is this one that carries everything. Now she is fed up.”
On the eve of his 80th birthday, singer Serge Lama will be awarded a Victoire de la musique d’honneur. He confides and specifies the end of his career.➡ https://t.co/36VoWhSxigpic.twitter.com/RDcPZsEs35
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The only survivor of a terrible road accident
Our colleagues from JDD recall the circumstances of his debut, in 1964, at Bobino in the first part of Georges Brassens who revealed him, as well as the terrible road accident suffered shortly after by the young singer. “A few months later, the 404 which took him on tour crashed into a tree near Aix-en-Provence. Polytraumatized, he will be the only survivor of this road accident, fatal for his fiancée, Liliane Benelli, Barbara’s pianist, as well as for the tour manager, Jean-Claude Ghrenassia, the brother of Enrico Macias.” The one who is going to blow out his 80 candles adds, with philosophy, during his conversation: “The pain increases with age. It’s quite normal, why should I escape this infernal law of passing time?” On September 16, 2022, on the airwaves of RTLSerge Lama had already announced it to his longtime fans: “You have to know that we get older, that my body makes me suffer a lot, that I have a lot of problems inherent to the passage of time and that therefore there you go, there is a moment, you have to know how to stop rather than being stopped. So I decided it was over.“Very sad news confirmed today.
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