In twenty years, Quebecer Pierre Lapointe has established himself as a sure value of French song. He proves it with his magnificent new album.
He admits: he has successfully succeeded. In the middle of Covid, Pierre Lapointe gets tired of the electro album he is composing. “I wanted to bring together French song and the Beastie Boys,” he says. But I took myself to another game: to write great songs, as if they had been ordered to me by French performers. But since no one had asked me anything, I started singing them myself. “The result, the first big disc of the year 2025, is called” ten old -fashioned songs for those who have a damaged heart “,” because I am convinced that we all have the heart damaged by life … “
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Because when the Quebecer tried to put himself in the skin of others, he realized “that everything was talking about a lot of [lui] in the end ”. From “all your idols” (disappeared) to “where our memories will go through” like the clay pigeons “, Lapointe sings great emotions and great feelings with a conviction that Charles Aznavour would not have denied. “It is someone who has counted a lot in my journey,” admits the Canadian, recalling that he has taken over many times “old -fashioned pleasures” on the TV sets in Montreal. “But when I was a kid, my personal pantheon was summed up with four people: Diane Dufresne and Robert Charlebois among Quebecers, Barbara and Gainsbourg for the French, they were the ones that I listened to my rotating table. From there was born at home a concern for elegance but also a desire to hang the general public.
A juror of “La Voix”
Lapointe is inventing a half-snob, half-diva character in her native homeland, who is all the rage with the media. And stands out as an essential juror of “La Voix”, equivalent across the Atlantic of our “The Voice”. “I sold so much records in Quebec so much that I even passed an artist like Nelly Furtado, who sings in English, however. I found myself in the Juno Awards [équivalent des Grammy Awards, NDLR] Only because my sales figures were crazy. No one in English -speaking Canada knew who I was. »»
Pierre Lapointe, 43, taste this prolonged anonymity. And his dreams of expansion obviously go through France. “I live four months a year in Paris and I can be recognized seven times during my stay … It’s good, it shows me that there is still a long way to go,” he laughs. But nothing will make me deviate from my line: I only sing French. I am even probably more French -speaking than you Parisians! »»
“I may be more French-speaking than Parisians!” »»
What Lapointe does not necessarily say is that he is as comfortable in her role as a juror of a telecrochet as in a contemporary art gallery. That he can sing tormented love, Alzheimer’s Alzheimer and be in one of the Quebec celebrity newspapers. “When I understood, very young, that I was gay, I was afraid to say it for a long time. I often fell into depressions without bottom, because I did not know how I would be looked at by society. And with my songs, for twenty years, I managed to say the man I am. So today I am no longer afraid. Thus, for his next French concerts, Pierre decided to start the old fashioned: a piano, four hands, and a microphone. Like only Brel, Gréco or Barbara knew how to do it. Overwhelmed, but so modern.
“Ten old -fashioned songs for those who have a damaged heart” (Audiogram). On tour from 7Mai, 12th in Paris (Olympia).
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