The singer and musician Reunion René Lacaille has just obtained the prize of the Charles Cros academy for the whole of his work and his career in the world Music category. The price will be awarded this Sunday to Meudon.
René Lacaille won the Charles Cros Academy Prize for all of his work and his career in the world music category. The prize will be officially awarded this Sunday to Meudon. The opportunity to come back to his journey.
From his youth to animate the dust balls in Reunion to a career as a busy musician and singer, René Lacaille has under the foot more than 70 years of profession. An artist’s life between France and the meeting he traces us with verve in #Maparole.
Lacaille, a dynasty of musicians. The father, the children (Oriane Lacaille), the grandchildren. Three generations of musicians who explore styles through the ages, from Reunion to France. René Lacaille is today a patriarch even if the famous accordionist has no desire to hang up. Always a project or a concert in mind, the accordionist likes nothing more than music, sharing it with other artists and the public as well as the pleasure of traveling.
1 Balls the dust
It all started in 1946 at the Saint-Leu pond in the heights of the seaside town. The family has some cabris, the father and children work in the sugar cane fields. Very often, the family, mainly boys, animate the dust balls where Reunionese love to meet. René Lacaille loves this atmosphere. He is only seven years old and likes to make music with family. “”It was starting at 6 p.m. and we could finish at 6 am “says René Lacaille. Sometimes impossible to go to school the next day, but the teachers are not getting angry, especially since at the end of the year, René Lacaille animates the school party.
Music does not feed the family. In Reunion, difficult to live from your art at that time, especially when “We are surrounded by poor” Who cannot afford to pay musicians correctly. So to eat, there is work in the fields. Child, René works as a cane cutter. And his father performs all types of trades to bring his eight children to life.
At that time, René Lacaille nevertheless believed in his high star and professionalized by playing in the group of Jean Nativelle, on the side of Saint-Louis. He plays the accordion and gradually, he puts himself on the guitar. Multiinstrumentist, René Lacaille loves music so much that he is thirsty to progress and dreams of going to do his military service with the sole purpose of training in music theory with his brother Renaud. The musician spends about 24 months, several of which in the military dungeon. He still makes nightmares today. In music theory, with his brother, progress is felt and René does not regret a minute his choice to leave his island. In Paris, at the end of the 1960s, he began to turn in boxes and frequented many musicians. But in 1972, the desire to return to the country Taraude. The period is conducive.
2 Luc Donat and Alain Péters
In Reunion, René Lacaille meets Luc Donat, the King of Sega. He joined the ad hoc group. He puts himself in the saxophone and composed his first great success, Sax sege Who “will not bring back much money “, today regrets the artist. The musician sympathizes with Alain Péters, the Jimi Hendrix of Reunion. They set up the chameleon group together. The group met with immense success with young people in Reunion. But after a few years, René Lacaille wants to take off again.
Back in Paris, he lived, joined a squat on rue du Château in 14e Arrondissement and spends a lot of time in a Café Place du Châtelet listening to large jazz sizes like Chet Baker. René Lacaille lives the bohemian. He never knows very well if he will eat and where. He also doesn’t know where he will play. But he believes in it.
From 1979, René Lacaille rebounded, he met Odile his partner and became a dad. He plays with lots of artists recognized as Jacques Higelin, Manu Dibango, Georges Moustaki, Youri Buenaventura. For 10/15 years, he also sails in the world of jazz alongside Ray Lema and Bob Brozman. The artist travels the festivals and flourishes on all the stages, from Australia to Sudan via Ireland.
3 Life in Sète
In 1992, René Lacaille attended a concert by Danyel Waro at the Bourges festival. He is stuck. This meeting blues reminds him of so many memories. Thanks to Danyel Waro, René Lacaille has a crazy desire to reconnect with Reunion music. He begins to compose, to imagine songs that revive his links with Reunion. And above all, he writes in Reunion Creole.
His daughter Oiane Lacaille founded a group with his companion called Bonbon Voodou, his son Marc and his nephew Yanis also make music. Tradition among the Lacailles is perpetuated to the delight of the patriarch who, as soon as it is called, responds to play with family.
-René Lacaille continues music with many musicians. Pierre Perret, the organs of Barbarcks, many of them call upon his talent. René Lacaille has just recorded four titles of a project entitled Dial basinnamed after a place he really likes in Reunion. With his daughter, Oriane, he regularly pays homage to Bobby Lapointe whose songs he loves with his accordion he loves.
In short, life is beautiful for René Lacaille now installed in Sète. He would like to play a little more in Reunion in more important rooms and locally share his knowledge of Reunion music. It is his greatest wish, because so far, he feels rather spoiled and filled by his life as a musician always active.
► January 28, 1946
Birth in Reunion
►1966
Departure for France
►1970
Back to Reunion, meeting Alain Péters
►2005
Shock of Music world
►2009
Prix Charles Cros For the album Cordéon Kaméléon
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