After Maxime Le Forestier, Jane Birkin or Jacques Dutronc, it is Serge Lama’s turn to be celebrated by the Victoires de la Musique throughout his career. the singer of From adventure to adventure will receive a Victory of Honor in the 38th edition of the award ceremony, this Friday at the musical Sena.
“I am overwhelmed with emotion before this last very pleasant greeting that the profession sends me,” he declared on Sunday to the JDDas reported West of France.
On the other hand, he will not act for the occasion and, according to the voice of the north, you must give a duplex speech. “I don’t want to show myself today, I prefer to stay what it was,” the singer explained to the JDD. “Today I would have to sing sitting down. It is not what the public wants to see… Physically I am very damaged”.
“You have to know when to stop”
Serge Lama, who will turn 80 this Saturday, announced that he would end his career last September: “I have many problems inherent to the passage of time. There is a moment, you have to know how to stop so you don’t get stopped.” for things “, he explained on RTL. A few weeks later, he released Lovelisted as his last album.
Serge Lama was about to receive this Victory of Honor 10 years ago, along with Sheila, Salvatore Adamo and Enrico Macias, but he rejected the offer at the time:
“If they had come to give it to me at the Olympia, where I sing at the same time, it would have made me happy,” he explained to the Parisian. But to give us four Victories at once, it seems to be in a herd of old women that we get rid of. It’s almost humiliating.”
Source: BFM TV
