Two days after the death of his mother, Thomas Dutronc was on stage in the north of France, at the Jazz Opale Festival. The son of Françoise Hardy and Jacques Dutronc confided that he had tried to sing two songs by the sixties star, but with emotion in his throat, he had let his musicians, Stochelo Rosenberg, Ricky Gresset and Thomas Bramerie, play the majority of the songs. Friendship.
Thomas Dutronc still managed to sing “Sometimes sadness slips into their eyes, […] you can go deep into the clouds.” The singer then commented that “his elephant in the room [soit le sujet central épineux qu’on évite d’évoquer]it’s my mother’s departure to other skies.”
Anthem in the making
So when Calogero in turn covers the 1965 hit, on June 22, two days after the funeral of Françoise Hardy, which he attended, the choice is not trivial. And the singer was able to offer a setting worthy of this song on the way to becoming an anthem in memory of the icon of the sixties: the majestic arenas of Nîmes.
In front of an audience gripped by emotion, Calogero, alone at the piano and dressed in black, begins the song. When he pronounces the last words “So, perhaps I will come to your house/Heat my heart with your wood”, the audience unites for a beautiful ovation. The artist stands up and turns towards the magnificent black and white portrait of the star, projected in the background on a giant screen.
A moment which did not fail to move Thomas Dutronc, who reposted it on Instagram. “A huge thank you to Calogero for this magnificent tribute. »
