By Bertrand Bielle | Journalist
Curious by nature, Bertrand is always on the lookout for the slightest little scoop. Passionate about football, he is never far from football and all the news that comes with it. However, showbiz or political events are also part of his preferred journalistic research.
This Wednesday, June 26, Garou is 52 years old. The opportunity to take an interest in the famous Quebec singer, in particular in this rare photo of the mother of his daughter Emelie, taken a few years ago in Montreal.
Have you seen it before? Photo of Garou and his ex-partner Ulrika, model and mother of their daughter Emelie
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On July 7, 2001, Garou – who celebrated his 52nd birthday this Wednesday – became the father of a daughter now aged 21 and named Émelie. A young woman who was afraid of getting into music, like her father. “I tried to get her to learn piano and guitar, but she didn’t want to. She was stuck, saying to herself: ‘That’s dad’s, no one is going to listen to my stuff, I don’t want to’“told the artist on the set ofWe are live on France 2, in November 2021. But little by little, she let herself be convinced. Especially when he gave her a maple ukulele during the Covid-19 pandemic.
An instrument with which she quickly began to compose songs. “I was in the house and I heard him singing in the shower. When she came out of the bathroom, I asked her what she was singing. She told me she had invented it. I knew she had this fiber of composeret it was the ukulele that started it“Garou explained on television, according to comments reported by the Canadian magazine 7 days. But Emelie could also have become a model, like her mother Ulrika. A woman from Sweden, who remained very discreet during her relationship with Garou.
Garou and Ulrika at the christening of a famous “son of”
It was rare to see them publicly together. But there is this photo, from July 2001, where they posed in Montreal, on the occasion of the baptism of René-Charles Angélil, Céline Dion’s first child with René Angélil, at the Sacré-Coeur chapel, adjacent to the Notre-Dame basilica. As reported 7 days“nearly 2000 jubilant people awaited the arrival of the star and this much-desired son, her first little prince born six months earlier“. Garou was therefore present, with Ulrika.
But their story has not been relevant for a long time. Garou has since been in a relationship with Canadian top model Stéphanie Fournier, whom he met during 2013, then Emily. He also shared Lorie’s life, but the latter had less and less time to devote to him due to his meteoric rise, as she explained for Gala : “I realized that he expected things that I couldn’t give him. He wanted me to be more present, more at home. But I also had my career to manage.”
