There is only one Michel Sardou in French song. The artist is considered by his fans as a
unboltable taulier. The proof? A special evening in his honor on M6 this Friday, December 13, 2024. On the program: the concert event I remember a goodbye then the broadcast Michel Sardou’s 20 favorite French songs. In an interview on RTLtoday he swings on
Emmanuel Macron…
Michel Sardou: artist from a very young age
Born in the 18th arrondissement of Parisin 1947, Michel Sardou is a child of the ball.
Ferdinandhis father, is a singer,
Jackiehis mother, is an actress.
Valentinhis grandfather, is even a comedian and actor. Little Michel then has the scene in his blood. He thus spent his youth following his parents in all the fashionable Parisian cabarets.
This way of life, precisely, gives him a taste for representation, song and the spotlight. But that’s not all, following in mom and dad’s footsteps, he takes theater lessons. He likes to act like in Is Paris burning? with Jean-Pierre Belmondo. In the early 90s, he played a Michel Sardou lookalike in the offbeat comedy Grosse fatigue of
Michel Blanc !
The singer has many hits to his credit
Michel Sardou began his career as a singer at the beginning of the
sixties. He quickly landed a contract with a record company but his career struggled to take off. 1966, he met the man who became his most faithful collaborator, Jacques Revaux. The two artists collaborate, write and compose most of Michel Sardou’s hits together.
The Sergeant’s Laughterhis first success, in 1971, is based on Sardou’s personal experience facing the army.
He knows a phenomenal rise during this decade thanks to the album entitled I live in France. This marks the musical identity of the performer who is identified as patriotvery
Gallic and… sometimes racist. He refutes this last adjective in Taratata in 94.
Michel Sardou attacks Emmanuel Macron
Because Michel Sardou’s career is not only marked by his successes behind the microphone. He is also known for his songs of a xenophobic or misogynistic nature. Evidence of this Colonial times or even In Cities of Solitude. And, for several years, he has also been known for his rants and his
road exits. Some people mention a
caricature of himself.
This December 13, on the occasion of the Michel Sardou evening on M6 from 9:10 p.m., the singer is interviewed by RTL. During his interview, he evokes the youth of France in a backward-looking way and even attacks the current President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron. He was questioned in particular about the recent dissolution of the government. Michel Sardou pulls no punches: “Here, I’m a little lost. I don’t know what I would write… The messy side, perhaps, would please me.
Finally, it’s good for his face!“We assume, inevitably, that he is talking about the President. Yellow laughter from the journalist Nathalie Renoux who conducts the interview. Time passes, prime ministers change, but Michel Sardou remains the same.
