Michel Fugain was the guest ofWe're doing TV again on RTL this Saturday, November 9. Questioned by Éric Dussart, the 82-year-old singer and composer remembered with pain the death of his daughter Laurette. And the meeting just afterwards with the woman who now shares his life.
At 82, Michel Fugain is on all fronts. The interpreter of Do like the birdcurrently on tour with his new album Life, love etc.meets fans of the performing arts at the Théâtre de Bobino (Paris) in January 2025. Perhaps because he is keen to pass on his knowledge to the new generation of singers, the artist will be present on the TF1 set during the 6th prime of the Star AcademyNovember 16. To talk about his current affairs, he was the guest ofWe're doing TV againSaturday November 9.
Michel Fugain still grieving after the death of his daughter Laurette: “Shall we move on?”
At the microphone of RTL, Michel Fugain was encouraged to remember his greatest sorrow in life: the death of his daughter Laurette, suffering from leukemia, in 2002. A tragedy all the more appalling as the young woman started everything just his adult life. “To the question 'Why do I sing?' can we also answer 'For Laurette' ?”asked Éric Dussart from his guest. “For Laurette? Oh… my dear… She is part of a whole, so I sing tears and smiles”replied the singer and composer, visibly disturbed. “It’s always a bit difficult…he admitted, grimacing at the pain that reignited at the mention of his child. Because she was 22 years old, and a desire is to live…” “Shall we move on?”he then asked, overcome with strong emotion.
Michel Fugain touching: “There is a soul that leaves and I meet another”
A call heard by Éric Dussart. After recalling that “the worst rubs shoulders with the best”he urged the singer to talk about a much happier subject: the meeting with his wife Sanda, just two months after the death of his daughter. “There, I thought it was a sign of destiny”explained Michel Fugain. And to illustrate with poetry what he felt during this difficult period of his life: “There is a soul that leaves and I meet another.” With the one he calls “that mermaid”who made him “to resume [s]at the first gulp of air”thus helping him to live again after the death of Laurette, he first established a beautiful friendship, before love with a capital A was born: “At 60, I met the woman I was made for. And I believe I am the man she was made for.” A moving testimony of resilience.
Article written in collaboration with 6Medias
