The columnist of Télématin is the author of an autobiography “Artist’s chair” where he talks about his journey to success, despite his disability. A testimony of great strength, shared this Sunday at the Nimes Biography Festival.
Don’t tell Frederic Zeitoun he’s optimistic. It is but the clichés on “the happy handicapped and the joyful blind” it annoys him a bit. Optimist and songs full of his life, it would also have been the case if he was on his two feet and not on a wheelchair, let it be said!
He wrote songs for Enrico Macias, Carlos…
The chronicler of Télématin, for 25 years, lyricist and now a man of the scene, publishes an autobiography “Artist’s chair”, published by L’Archipel. He recounts his life journey, he, the kid born in 1962 paraplegic and became an advertising editor for Europe 1, then parodic pubs at Jacques Martin in “Ainsi font font font”, a program with a large audience on Sunday afternoons, before getting up much earlier to join Télématin on France 2. Frédéric Zeitoun is also a lyricist, who has written for Enrico Macias, Michèle Torr, Carlos and many others.
If the history of songs is his field, it is his own story that he highlights today: “It is also and perhaps primarily a book about my parents, they gave me everything and they always told me that nothing would be impossible for me! I followed a normal schooling and for a child in armchair, in the 60s, I can tell you that it was a revolution!”
Frédéric Zeitoun is still waiting “that the law is simply applied! That we change our outlook, that everything is really accessible. And that we live this p. of living together instead of talking about it constantly!”
He, who counts among his faithful friends Michel Drucker, who came to applaud him at the Casino de Paris last December, “the impression of having found (his) place on stage”. The song is doing well in France, according to him “there is a real succession, people need songs, songs help to live!”
