On the set of France 5, this Wednesday, February 10, the singer Bénabar returned to the lack caused in him by the death of his friend, Michel Delpech, in January 2016.
This Wednesday February 10, on the occasion of the promotion of its new album baptized “Indocile Happy“, Bénabar was the guest of the show Passage of the arts, presented by Claire Chazal on France 5. The author, composer and singer for more than twenty years has notably addressed the strong friendship that he had woven with Michel Delpech, who died in January 2016 following a cancer. When the interpreter of the Loir-et-Cher was still hospitalized, Bénabar visited him regularly. Both of them had resumed together At Laurette, for an album of duets released by the late singer in 2006. “I miss him“, conceded the singer of 51 years.
For five years, and the death of Michel Delpech, “his gaze, his friendship and his protection hidden every time ” Miss Bénabar who remembered, on the plateau of France 5, the character “very anguish” and “very protective” of the one he had called “model” during an interview with Canal + in 2016. When leaving his various albums, the interpreter in particular of Butterfly Effect used to consult Michel Delpech: “It I miss not having shown him, listened to and spent two hours talking songs with him “, he said this Wednesday, February 10.
A cover album without Bénabar
A few weeks after the death of Michel Delpech, a cover record of his greatest songs revisited by the younger generation French artists was released in France. But alongside Louane, Vianney or even Kendji Girac, Bénabar’s voice was absent since he had declined the proposal: “I see with dismay that my name appears in a hypothetical and opportunistic cover album by my friend Michel Delpech“he wrote in 2016 on Facebook before adding : “I do not endorse this ‘product’ whose promotion begins even before the funeral of the person concerned. I do not remain discreet by posture but by sadness“. “Business goes on okay but without me“, he concluded. On the other hand, Bénabar had participated in the tribute show to Michel Delpech broadcast on January 23, 2016 on France 2 and presented by Michel Drucker.
Article written with the collaboration of 6Medias.
Photo credits: Screenshot France 5
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