The 72-year-old singer took part in a concert for UNICEF on Thursday evening, performing his hit “Manhattan Kabul”.
Renaud returned to the stage in Paris on Thursday evening to sing his hit Manhattan Kaboul at a concert for the benefit of UNICEF. The singer was warmly applauded at the end of this concert. This event is part of a project called “Words and Images”.
“He is still there, still standing. Always there for good causes. He is so generous in life. He does so many things in the shadows,” singer Gauvain Sers praised on BFMTV.
An exhibition and a collection of works by contemporary artists illustrating his songs are also part of this “Words and Images” project.
Twenty artists, including urban art pioneer Ernest Pignon-Ernest, street artists Jef Aérosol and C215 and painters Françoise Pétrovitch and Anna Foka, each illustrated one of the singer’s songs.
50 years of career in 2025
These works are exhibited at the town hall of the 13th arrondissement until September 14. They are published in a collection released in bookstores on Thursday and will be the subject of an auction on September 13.
The 72-year-old singer, who will celebrate 50 years of singing in May 2025, is preparing “a new album” for “next year, I hope,” he revealed in Le Parisien. “I started writing songs.”
Renaud remains very active: he started a tour at the beginning of 2023, after six years of absence, before releasing the album in the fall In my stringsin which he revisits his repertoire in symphonic form.
