“I was supposed to be a war reporter”, “I have 600 euros in retirement”… Chantal Goya confides

“I was supposed to be a war reporter”, “I have 600 euros in retirement”… Chantal Goya confides
“I was supposed to be a war reporter”, “I have 600 euros in retirement”… Chantal Goya confides

To you, the retirement reform at 64 must seem completely abstract. Do you want to die on stage like Molière?

Chantal Goya : Oh no! And then it’s not decided like that! I love working, I can’t do nothing. If the artistic stops overnight, no problem, I’ll set up a shop. I was not very considerate, so much so that today, I have 600 euros in retirement after taxes (and excluding artist fees).

Why not record new songs?

When I did it, it cost me a fortune and the songs never got played on the radio. So I stopped.

Little is known, but in the early 1960s, when you met Jean-Jacques Debout, your future husband, you wanted to be a journalist…

Yes. I had gone to study journalism, I was living in London. I wanted to be a war reporter, covering conflicts, meeting people around the world and telling stories. Finally, I told stories, but differently…

In two years, you will celebrate your 60th wedding anniversary. Your first meeting with Jean-Jacques Debout remains a completely improbable moment…

I was invited to a wedding. A man, whom I had never seen, is playing on the piano, he suddenly stops playing, crosses the room to sit next to me and says to me: “I feel like I’ve known you forever. We’ll get married, have two kids, and you’ll be a famous singer!” At that time, I was a student, not a singer at all…

What did your father ask you when you mentioned singing as a professional future?

He told me: “If you sing, you change your name! Otherwise what will we look like?

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