An icon that is missing from French song. This Friday, October 18, Jacques Higelin, who took his final bow at the age of 77 six years ago, would have celebrated his 83rd birthday. Having marked several generations with his compositions, the artist was also the happy father of three children : Arthur Higelin alias Arthur H who he had in 1966 with Nicole Courtois, the director Kên Higelin who was born in 1972, the fruit of his love affair with Kuelan Nguyen, without forgetting the singer Izïa Higelin born in 1990 from his relationship with Aziza Zakine.
In June, when the person concerned was starring in the film Juliet in spring, in which she plays a young woman experiencing depression, Izïa Higelin spoke at length about their relationship in the columns of Madame Figaro. The opportunity for the actress to address the period of anorexia that she went through from her “majority“under the helpless gaze of its illustrious progenitor.
Jacques Higelin: his daughter Izia confides in their relationship
Having, however, been very close with her father during her childhood, their relationship would literally have “exchange“as soon as she left the family home.”CIt was lovely to see my father a little lost in the face of these changes. I was no longer his little girl and he no longer knew how to talk to me. It turns out that I was anorexic for a while during this period and he was overwhelmed by this“, recognized Izïa Higelin.
A delicate situation that she analyzes today with great hindsight: “Fathers may be as deconstructed as possible and very open, but it’s always complicated for them to see their daughter become a young womanit necessarily escapes them. As for us, as we grow up, we need to break the image of the living god father”. Having become a mother in 2018, Izïa Higelin in turn wishes to instill in her son many values which were long precious in the eyes of her father.
“An infinite love for life (hence my desire to stop brooding) and freedom. Above all, I love playing and singing, but I don’t want to sacrifice everything for my career. I do not always accept what is offered to me, I am not constantly reachable and make sure I have my time for my son, my family, my loved ones“, added the star before concluding: “I am aware of how lucky I am to be able to do this and my greatest freedom remains to cut myself off from the world and retire to Calvi, where my family lives, a band of acrobats with whom I grew up.“.
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