After the goodbyes, the return. Michel Sardou, who announced his musical retirement after one last tour in 2018, will soon return to the stage with a new singing tour. I remember a goodbye will take him on the roads of France from October 2023. His delighted fans can thank his wife:
“My wife told me something quite true: ‘If you stop permanently, you will get bored, and you will miss the big moments and the public,'” he told the BFMTV set, a tour partner, on Wednesday.
“I am lucky to have an audience that loves me, that knows my songs, that knows me and that receives me with great affection every time,” he added. And an impressive figure proves him right: in mid-December, no less than 100,000 tickets for his tour sold out in eight hours.
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To return in style, the singer is willing to innovate: “I don’t want to copy and paste what I did last time,” he says. To do this, he intends to rethink his greatest successes:
“They will be heard again, but in a different way. The essence will be kept, I will not change the melodies and lyrics, but I will do it in a certain way that people do not expect. I want to surprise them with what they already know.”
And to give rise to a touch of mystery: “We invented a system, I think we’ve never seen it in France, and you’re going to love it. In the intros, the way of orchestrating, dressing the song, staging it…”
A few days after his 76th birthday, which he will celebrate on January 26, Michel Sardou does not hide the fact that his return to the stage requires some form. “I’ll be very honest: the high C of France or some Connemara lakes, I will not do. But I work every day (with a voice teacher, editor’s note) so that the difference is not so noticeable.
“You have to remember the mechanics,” he concludes. “It’s a mechanism, a breather. Age is coming… it’s like an athlete: ask a 40-year-old athlete to play tennis again, he’ll go slower, he’ll hit less hard.”
Source: BFM TV
