Daniel Balavoine tragically disappeared in 1986 during a helicopter accident in Mali. The image of the singer, committed, sensitive, has remained engraved in people's minds. His songs too. They are still there. L'aziza, All the SOS, When we arrive in town, Life teaches me nothing…
This Friday, December 6France 3 invited around twenty artists who were marked by the man and his texts. They are gathered in Biarritz, the city where he grew up, under the musical direction of Nach (Anna Chedid), with Gaëtan Roussel, Robert Charlebois, Olivia Ruiz, Tété, Claire Keim, Louis Chedid, Fatoumata Diawara…
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Beautiful covers of emblematic Balavoine titles
Pierre and Charles Souchon, accompanied by Sandrine Kiberlain, sing the poignant My son my battlewritten not for Balavoine's son but for a friend whose story had touched her. Beautiful and astonishing cover also of Live or survive by rapper Youssoupha and classical guitarist Thibault Cauvin. For his part, Nach resumes Obviously the title written by Michel Berger upon his death in Balavoine and performed in 1987 by France Gall.
To follow, a portrait of the singer entitled Let me introduce myself, my name is Daniel.
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