The artist specifies during the exchange that she does not receive any rights on the distribution of her hits: “I am only an interpreter, so I am limited in copyright issues. I have rights to passages with the Adami but it doesn’t go very far.“
How does Annie Gautrat see her future then? At 80, she wants to put a stop to her career to devote herself to other activities, but there is no question for her of seeing herself in a retirement home, marked by the difficult experience of her mother: “I will go to Switzerland to die with dignity. I accompanied my mom to a retirement home, it’s total horror. It’s unbearable. I would like Emmanuel Macron to take matters into his own hands and lay down the law for us to avoid going abroad when we decide to end our lives. (…) It is a delicate subject.“
The interview was also an opportunity to remember good memories, like her relationship with Eric Charden, she who married him very young, at 18, pushed by her father to quickly formalize her relationship. Working as a couple, she has fond memories of her collaboration and her story – they are parents of Baptiste – with the one who died in 2012.
