Last year, we left him in good shape, in good health, presenting a magnificent autobiography, Chemins de Liberté, which recounted his journey as a man and an artist. This year 2022 is starting more difficult for Yves Duteil according to France Sunday : at 72, he would have had to go back to the pool table for a delicate open-heart operation.
The magazine, on newsstands this Friday, specifies that the singer of small wooden bridge would suffer from a coronary artery in poor condition, which would force him to return to see the doctors regularly. Very bad news for him, who will have to stay in the hospital and recover for many weeks after this risky intervention at his age.
In 2018, when he mentioned this health concern for the first time in the media, he told the Parisian that he had hadopen-heart surgery, several months of hospitalization including [il] hadn’t spoken to anyone“. Hoping to get better, he had embarked on writing a book, nearly fifty after the start of his singing career.
He recounted his political career, he who became mayor of Précy-sur-Marne in 1989, his civic commitment also: with his wife Noëlle, they are involved in many associations and have even created a school in India for underprivileged children. . Acts of which he never boasted, just like the fact that about thirty schools in France bear his name, an extremely rare fact for a living personality.
It must be said that his very light and poetic pen and his great gentleness have shaped a legendary career for him. His biggest success, take a child, released in 1978, has also been translated into various languages including German and Dutch. Written and composed by himself, it was voted best song of the century in 1987.
Inseparable from his wife Noëlle, with whom he has a daughter, Martine, he had finally told his fight against the disease, explaining that “Noelle drew the strength to survive for us. To overcome the violence of the treatments, she took refuge in an ocean of love that she wanted to continue to offer us.“. While today, his wife is healed, he had made the most beautiful statement to her, “You go for it, then I fix you“!