a new song by Grégory Lemarchal unveiled at the Star Academy

Star Academy students sang a song written by Grégory Lemarchal before his death on Saturday.

“We haven’t forgotten you.” At the Star Academy, the memory of Grégory Lemarchal is omnipresent. Saturday November 23, on the occasion of the weekly TF1 tele-hook bonus, the students of the twelfth promotion revealed a new song by the singer. Baptized And if you feelthis piece was written by Grégory Lemarchal before his death in 2007.

In notebooks, he had left several songs. Pierre and Laurence Lemarchal, the parents of the former academician, decided to offer one to the students of Dammarie-les-Lys, almost twenty years after his death. The benefits of the song And if you feel will be donated to the association created in his memory to fight against cystic fibrosis, from which he died.

This week in the Star Academy, the musician – and former academician – Quentin Mosimann accompanied the show's coach – and former academician, too – Lucie Bernardoni to unveil the new song to the students, which Grégory Lemarchal had written only two weeks before his disappearance.

“We wanted something universal”

“Grégory died on April 30, 2007. He wrote this song on March 15, 2007, in the hospital. He was waiting and not yet registered on the transplant list. He wrote a song in which all the words will resonate for each of you”, explained to the academicians Lucie Bernardoni, unfortunate finalist against the singer in 2004.

And added: “We talked about it quite a bit with Grégory's parents, because we found it important that you know why he wrote this song and when.”

Questioned by Gala magazine, Grégory Lemarchal's mother explains that they had submitted several texts to TF1, before the choice of And if you feel not be done. “It’s a text that certainly spoke to Grégory, but these are words that can speak to everyone,” she adds. “We wanted something universal.”