By Earth Cousteau
– Published on 07 Oct 2024 at 07:30
Liane Foly, 61 years old and heart of steel, learned to enjoy life alone after a few romantic disappointments. Nothing to discourage her, however, since during an interview with Gala, the singer spoke frankly about her desire for love and her sexuality.
With its unique timbre, Liane Foly distinguished herself both as a singer and an impersonator, while making appearances in the cinema. She owes her talent to her parents, who encouraged her to go on stage from a very young age. Under the name ofÉliane Falliexshe started with her brothers and sisters in the family group, led by her father. Very quickly, she learned the piano and performed in the small jazz bars of Paris, where she was spotted by André Manoukianthe lyricist of his first successes.
This is how Éliane becomes Liane Foly, in a nod to a quote from Salvador Dali. Albums and tours followed one another, and she joined the famous troupe of Bastards. Involved in several humanitarian causes, she also lends her voice to animated characters, including Belle In Beauty and the Beast. But music is not enough for her: she shines in imitation with a successful one-woman show, which will give birth to a second show in 2012, The Fool leaves for treatmentfollowed in 2023 by The Madwoman goes back to her thesis.
Liane Foly and André Manoukian: lovers yesterday, enemies today
Career-wise, Liane Foly has nothing left to prove, but her love life has often hit the headlines, notably her tumultuous relationship with André Manoukian. Between 1984 and 1995, the duo seemed united on the surface, but in private, it was another story. The situation was so tense that the singer ended up crossing the red line. Years later, she confided her infidelity to Paris Première, explaining: “At the end, I cheated on him because he didn’t ask me to marry him and didn’t want a child.“
Things get even more complicated when the French songwriter and pianist publishes his autobiography Fluid Mechanicsin which he does not spare the singer. Liane, shocked by the comments, spoke: “I’m ashamed. It stinks. It lacks elegance. It feels like we’re in a Marc Dorcel film.…He just had to love me more.“But fortunately, after a public apology from André, the two exes ended up burying the hatchet.
“I don’t want children”
After her relationship with André Manoukian, Liane Foly had several love stories, including a marriage with the businessman Augustin Decré. But none of these idylls lasted long. What is certain is that the singer never wanted to become a mother, a choice that she has always accepted without complexes.
“The day I discovered, like all little girls, that we were going to have pain every month, I said to my mother: ‘What for? I don’t care, I don’t want children!‘”, she confided to the newspaper Le Matin. Today single, the artist lives her life to the fullest alone and relishes this uncompromising freedom. Without a man by her side, she claims to be “free from all concessions“, a philosophy that she adopts with joy and lightness.
Liane Foly talks about her sexuality
Liane Foly, with her touch of poetry, shares her quest for love: “I am an independent woman but now I want to be accompanied by a man or a woman from elsewhere.“After a tumultuous period, where she even broke up with a young man seventeen years her junior, the singer is back on the market of hearts. She dreams of a beautiful romance: “This is going to be a very big story. The story of my life.“
Behind this desire for renewal, there have been trials. The artist went through a long tunnel of depression, marked by the loss of his parents. “I suffered a burnout that lasted about two years. Terrible,” she confides. But today, the sixty-year-old feels like she’s been reborn. She’s starting to live for herself, and she doesn’t want to plunge back into darkness: “If I sank, they wouldn’t be happy up there, they would come and pull my feet at night! So I’m careful!“
