“I come back naked and naked!” jokes Michel Polnareff, who is putting together his greatest hits in piano voice for the first time, ahead of a series of concerts next year in France and Switzerland, including various festivals.
For this intimate return to the stage, after his last tour in 2016, interrupted by health problems, the interpreter ofwe will all go to heaven he opted to reuse the 1972 Olympia poster showing his behind and which earned him a conviction for indecent assault, which resulted in his exile to the United States.
Fifty years later, the singer multiplies by three, always with her buttocks exposed, and wears blue, white and red shirts, in an assumed slight to the puritanical France of the 70s.
“Fans wanted me to do an album with a piano voice. I was wondering if I could still sing. I was afraid of myself… On this record, I’m completely naked… I’m so happy I did.” and very proud of the result!” confessed the 78-year-old singer during an interview with AFP during his stay in Paris.
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four years later Finally!that had ended almost three decades of waiting for his fans (kamasutra dating from 1990), the blonde-haired melodist returns with a sober Polnareff sings Polnareff (premiere scheduled for November 18), in which he accompanied himself solo on piano in his personal studio in California.
the ball of leisure, Goodbye Marilu, love me please love me, The doll that says no…: Polnareff has only retained his successes for this exercise without artifice, the artist’s 11th studio album, which allows his work to be rediscovered in a new light, like a private concert at the home of his fans.
With her voice intact, she sings an a cappella version of “Tout pour ma chère”. She also offers a space version of Holidays, his favorite version of piano voice, “better than the original”, he believes. Sure Letter to Franceafter a moving piano solo, he hammers out one of the verses: “Once upon a time/You and me/Never forget that…”
“My voice is better than before”
As a preview, a few weeks ago he revealed a clip of his song-hymn where three avatars of the star, with white glasses on their noses, appeared at the piano in the middle of the desert, dressed in blue, white and red.
“Letter to Franceit is the Marseillaise of the expatriates…”, he says. “This forced exile will never be forgotten… It is part of the pains of life… But, I do not like the past… I am not nostalgic: I like the present and the future!”, he says again.
“I’m lucky: my voice is better than before. I can go up as much, and even a little more. Resuming my successes was painful due to personal things that inspired me at the time, but I didn’t want to. remember…” she adds.
“There are those who will say that Polnareff has no more inspiration and is taking out his old suitcases… It is completely false! He had never composed so many new things! ”, Assures the singer that he announces other records.
Soon in the “Star Ac”
On November 26, the Admiral (as his fans call him) will be the guest of honor at the final of the star academy: “if the StarAc had existed when I was a street singer, I would have signed up! It’s important to showcase young singers.” Your favorites among the new generation? “Clara Luciani, Hoshi, Jérémy Frérot… Welcome to the new ones!”
Before meeting Polnareff from May 24 in Nice, where he will start his tour, his fans can always find out (without him) PolnaDreams (reference to the 1974 piece Polnarêve), an “immersive, dreamlike 360-degree experience” inspired by his hits, on view at the Le Palace theater in Paris through March.
Source: BFM TV
