Nicolas Ker died on Monday, May 17, announces journalist Eric Bureau. The singer, a close friend of Arielle Dombasle, was 51 years old.
Sad news in the rock world! Nicolas Ker died on Monday, May 17 at the age of 51, announces the journalist of Parisian Eric Bureau, on Twitter. “French rock loses one of its figures, “he notes. The singer was very friend with Arielle Dombasle, and it is also together that they released an album called Empire. If he was enchanted by this enchanted parenthesis with the wife of Bernard Henri-Lévy, he also blossomed in the group Poni Hoax, of which he was the voice.
Nicolas Ker was born in Cambodia and had visited several countries such as Egypt or Reunion before arriving in France at the age of 16. In a press release relayed by AFP, Arielle Dombasle reacted upon the announcement of the death of Nicolas Ker: “Nicolas was the last of the rockers with the golden voice. Singer and composer of the group Poni Hoax, he wrote my last two albums, wrote and played in my last film “Alien Cristal Palace”, “she noted. And added: “He had just finished the music for Bernard Henri Lévy’s next film, “Another idea of the world”. “According to the former candidate of Dance with the stars, Nicolas Ker was “the very figure of the rocker with the torn heart of the incandescent poet …“And to conclude with:”He had a Dionysian grace. A rare, delicate and beautiful being. We mourn him.“
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