Parisian cabaret, whimsical atmosphere. So we remember Marie-Paule Belle, pianist, singer, composer, and her first successful title published in 1976, “La Parisienne”. Mocking, she then recounted her life as a young provincial in the capital. Nearly 50 years later and 12 years after his last album Rebelthe 77-year-old artist and music figure is making his return to the stage at the Passy theater in Paris, with his new album, “Un soir entre mille” (Panthéon-Universal).
Alone at the piano, Marie-Paule Belle shares a range of memories and stories that have remained secret until now. Reflections of her childhood upon her arrival in Paris in 1969, without forgetting her passionate meeting with her partner, the novelist Françoise Mallet-Joris, who died in 2016. Moving away from the satirical register, she explores a more nostalgic, serious and intimate register . As if, after so many years, the artist sat down on a bench, in a cozy night, and recounted his life to strangers passing by. “ This album is the most personal I have ever madeshe whispers, moved. If I don’t open up now, I never will. »
Reviving the texts
Among the fifteen unpublished titles, the texts are signed by the artist herself, by Serge Lama and Isabelle Mayereau, but also and above all by Françoise Mallet-Joris and Michel Grisolia, her two lifelong lyricists, now deceased. “ We were a great trio behind all my songs since the 1970sremembers the singer. I was keen to revive their texts, especially as many themes remain very current, the relationship with screens for example. »
Forced to postpone her concerts three times due to the pandemic and a year 2023 marked by illness, Marie-Paule Belle returns to the stage she loves so much with the panache that her admirers know. If she admits that today she “ no longer jump on your piano stool “, the singer is no less in shape, her voice ” even more beautiful than before, because more rounded, warmer and more serious. »
A meeting to share with her in the little red velvet setting of the Théâtre de Passy, where, during a recital, “everything is forgotten, like bonfires », as she sings it in the title which gives its name to the album.
2024-01-04 23:06:58
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