Guest of the Hour of the pros this Friday, December 16, Hugues Aufray confided in the most important injury of his life: the suicide of his brother, when he was only 27 years old.
His career, he owes it largely to his big brother. Having become a singer somewhat by chance, Hugues Aufray owes a lot to this man, whom he has long considered his father. Yet it was Francesco who was destined for a long career in music. But at the age of 27, Hugues Aufray’s big brother took his own life. A still gaping wound for the singer, as he explained on the set of L’Heure des pros this Friday, December 17. “It was my brother, who was a year older than me and eight inches taller, who raised me. He had a splendid voice, a natural, opera voice. He studied conducting. orchestra and he should have made a world career. That’s what he went to the United States and Canada to do. “, remembered the singer, upset.
“My brother, who was like my father, committed suicide at the age of 27. I was 26 and my life was shattered at one point. In fact, I became a professional singer by transfer because I was absolutely not intended to do that.“, he continued, paying homage to the one to whom he owes everything. In the columns of Paris Match last year, Hugues Aufray explained that his brother had fallen into a deep depression after having experienced a particularly painful breakup. “But he fell in love with a 15-year-old Chinese girl whose parents said, ‘She will never marry a European.’ And my brother, who had a dramatic nature, who lived in Wagner, committed suicide for love “, he said.
Hugues Aufray: “I was saved by an extraordinary woman”
After the tragic death of his big brother, Hugues Aufray took years to recover. At the time, the singer had even lost his voice. “I could no longer speak (…) I was for a while without being able to sing (…) I was saved by an extraordinary woman who was a singing teacher and who did yoga. She took me back. in hand”, remembered the nonagenarian on the set of Ca starts today. He who did not know where Francesco was buried did everything to find him. “I’m going to Quebec and I’m looking (…) I had a word (…) The years go by and two years ago I’m going to Quebec. The young boy who was driving the bus said to me ‘I will find you the grave ‘(…) We find a cemetery and the grave of my brother “, he added, moved.
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