Both are among the favorite personalities of the French. So inevitably, when Yannick Noah talks about his colleague Jean-Jacques Goldman, it cannot remain unnoticed for long. Asked by The Sunday newspaper from October 16, 2022, on the occasion of the release of his 12th album, La Marfee, Yannick Noah spoke of his life as a family head as well as a village, on his Cameroonian lands, of the criticisms he may have suffered, but also of the former leader of the Enfoirés. And in very nostalgic thoughts…
He thus remembered his relationship with Robert Goldman and Jean-Jacques, his brother. “I still remember our first meeting, during a concert for Les Enfoirés. With Robert and Jean-Jacques, we quickly hit it off, to the point of playing tennis together“, he thus informed our colleagues of the JDD. And he then told an anecdote concerning only the 71-year-old artist, now married to Nathalie Thu Huong-Lagier, mother of three of his children – Maya (2004), Kimi (2005) and Rose (2007). “Moreover, Jean-Jacques, before embarking on music, worked as a racquet stringer“, said Yannick Noah.
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Obviously, it’s not just the music that binds the interpreter of the tube The Lionesses, and Jean-Jacques Goldman. But also their love for tennis. According to Yannick Noah, the one who settled with his family in Marseille, after having lived for years in London, would be a good player at “single style“.”VS‘is very funny to watch him play. He has a unique left-handed style, he doesn’t let go“, continued the father of Joalukas Noah, his youngest son. Jean-Jacques Goldman and Yannick Noah became closer and closer, until finally working together in the studio. “He also wrote me a song, ‘Neither divine nor dog’. Which gift“, thus declared Yannick Noah about this friend who seems to be dear to him.
Father of 5 children and grandfather, the 62-year-old artist seems to be liberated and serene, even if certain things continue to affect him. In particular not being present enough at Roland Garros, a place which he nevertheless marked forever, with his glory in 1983. “Two years ago, I was at Roland with my children: in the stadium, there was nothing of me, except for a photo in a corridor. I say to myself: ‘When I’m gone, if my kids come to Roland, are we going to give them a ticket or not?’“, he thus confided to the JDD.