Julien Doré has always loved being where you don’t expect him. The one who made himself known with a cover of Hi Lolita “La Nouvelle Star” has been cultivating the gap since then. Resumption of Javanese in Japanese, kitsch clips, self-mockery… The artist has always allowed himself great freedom, and it works rather well for him.
So for this new album, Impostoravailable for pre-order from July 17, the 41-year-old singer sets the tone. He allows himself improbable covers and colorful collaborations. Fans will have to fasten their seatbelts before embarking on an incredible journey with the French hit A happy man by William Sheller, in duet with Francis Cabrel, then crossing the Italian border with Sara because I love you by Ricchi e Poveri with Hélène Ségara, and by making a foray into the zany with Banana care by Philippe Risoli, but also a little detour into childhood with the nursery rhyme Crocodiles.
Yes, Julien Doré is also the father of a three-year-old boy!
Love at first sight fifteen years ago
But there is one title that promises a real take-off. It is the cover of Words, wordsby Dalida, with Sharon Stone. And as if that were not enough, the duo will be reversed, with the 66-year-old American star playing the part of Alain Delon.
How did it come to this? The singer of Cuddly Coco recounted the improbable meeting, “at the Cannes Film Festival after the release of my first album in 2008”, to Télé 7 Jours, during the filming of the second season of Panda.
“So I found myself in Cannes singing piano/voice in the middle of a dinner, and everyone made fun of my presence. A very bad experience. And then I felt that there was a crowd movement. Sharon Stone has arrived. She sat right next to me, barely a meter away, and looked at me and listened. And when Sharon Stone looks at you and listens to you, everyone looks at you and listens to you. »
After a few words exchanged and a photo, the story could have ended there, but the actress of Basic Instinct didn’t forget little Frenchie. “From time to time, maybe three times in fifteen years, we sent each other messages via Instagram,” he confides to the magazine.
And as Julien Doré is not afraid to dare, when he thought of this cover of the essential duo Dalida/Alain Delon, he started: “What if I wrote on Insta to Sharon Stone?” . And it happened like that. I wrote him a message. She replied: “Totally!” »
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At a “painting exhibition in Berlin,” Julien Doré jumped on a plane and “recorded his voice there. It was magical.”
