Living legend of French song, Véronique Sanson has also crossed paths with many icons. If we know her story with Michel Berger well, this time she evokes another cult figure who had fallen for her.
Véronique Sanson: 50 years later, she reveals her love story with a famous singer older than her
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Véronique Sanson is a great lover, as the title of one of her most beautiful albums indicates. Love nourished his magnificent songs and punctuated his life, even if sometimes it could turn sour with destructive relationships, like that with Stephen Stills, American artist and father of his only and beloved son Christopher. It was for him that she abruptly left Michel Berger in 1973, but their relationship was marred by violence against a backdrop of alcohol and drugs. Another famous name now surfaces among the idylls of the interpreter of To understand me and which she herself reveals in the columns of the newspaper The Mountain.
Returning to the genesis of his song Bahia (1972), Véronique Sanson makes a revelation for The Mountain : “I wrote it because I had a great love story with Nino Ferrer. He absolutely wanted to take me to Bahia. So I wrote this for him… or for no one. It's truly a neutral song. This may be surprising to many, but that's how I see it.“A passage spotted on X by Alister, real name Christophe Ernault, singer-songwriter.
Tasty information which was supplemented by the findings of another X user who adds an extract from the biography dedicated to Nino Ferrer: “I remember Nino Ferrer, transfixed with love, begging me to introduce her to him. In his beautiful villa in Rueil-Malmaison, he spent the day flirting with her in front of his wife, I was uncomfortable!” (excerpt from Nino Ferrer, a free man, by Henry Chartier).
Nino Ferrer, in love with Véronique Sanson, was in a relationship with Kinou Ferrari
The wife of the singer of the unforgettable title The South is at this time Kinou Ferrarri and who shared 30 years of his life with Nino Ferrer and had two sons. “Yes, of course when we were together, Nino had adventures, Kinou said, and so did I. Yes, there was the story with Brigitte Bardot, and others, but there was nothing unhealthy behind all that,” she confided in the pages of Galayears after the artist's suicide in 1998. He was 63 years old at the time.
Véronique Sanson, 75 years old, has overcome many challenges of her own, including fragile health, accentuated by acute meningitis, her addiction to drinking, a genetic blood disease, discovered late, and even depression. Despite everything, like a phoenix, the French star has been on tour for two years until December and offered to experience or relive his “Hasta Luego” concert at the cinema. A force of life which certainly had everything to capsize the heart of the seducer Nino Ferrer.
