This Monday, June 3, for the first issue of the week, Nathalie Lévy received in As an aside, Robert Charlebois. The singer, author and composer, who will celebrate his 80th birthday on June 25, is performing a new show entitled Charlebois, Ducharme and the others… at the Bobino Theater until June 9. In the studioAs an aside, Robert Charlebois looked back on the highlights of his personal and artistic life and in particular his friendship with Coluche, who died in June 1986 at the age of 41. The singer took the opportunity to reveal his friend’s hidden talent: “He gave me pipes, real pipes, not pipes for building. But he was a great, great handyman. People might not know that about him. He did everything, everything, everything. He was repairing his boat, the King Créole. He made his furniture, his shoes. He made me a ukuké on which I had composed a song with him. And then, he could do stairs in a circle while I can’t even do a straight staircase.”
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Robert Charlebois talks about his friendship with Coluche that he “much loved”
Robert Charlebois also spoke of the relationship he had with Coluche in the private sphere: “I know the Coluche which looks more like the Coluche of Tchao Pantin than at Coluche which made us laugh. I really liked Coluche. He was a little fierce but he received all the friends you could imagine, the Dewaere, Higelin, Balasko, Miou Miou, Renaud… All these people came to my house and it was him because we really lived five minutes away”, he said.
Robert Charlebois on the breakup between Coluche and his wife: “He came to our house to cry”
In an interview with Paris Match last May, Robert Charlebois had already spoken about his friendship with Coluche, whom he had met in Guadeloupe with his partner in the 1980s: “He had just left his wife, he said. Sometimes he showed up at our house to cry. I heard him make jokes that wouldn’t pass muster today. From 6 a.m., he was at his workbench, joint in mouth, he was an outstanding handyman.” he pointed out.
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