Serge Lama, 79, is out on Friday Lovea track 13 announced as his “latest albums“:”at an age, you have to know when to stop… “he said.”I will continue to write songs, to record perhaps but in secret, in a will“, The artist confides.
“You have to know how to say it’s over. I’m doing it with this album. I don’t want to sing seated like Reggiani … Aznavour should have stopped before too.“, The interpreter of Women, women, women, From adventure to adventure or At 15, successes among many others in almost sixty years of career. “I have motor difficulties … At my age, as soon as I walk, I suffer a lot“, the singer whose last tour was canceled by the pandemic tells AFP.”It ripped my heart out. Now I can’t last two hours on stage.“
For the farewell album, Serge Lama celebrates his reunion with arranger Jean-Claude Petit, with whom he shaped his first hits in 1973 as I’m sick et The singer is twenty years old. “With his immense arrangements, Jean-Claude was the source of my stardom. Always with him, this latest album celebrates love in all directions. All the while, I sang of love which, with the sincerity I believe in, have been the watchwords of my career. If you’re not sincere, the audience leaves you …“, observes Serge Lama.
In all twelve titles of this “latest albums“, the 24th of his career, the singer, alternately serious and playful, evokes in a duet the love that unites him with his wife Luana, as well as his unexpected admiration for the tennis player Roger Federer or for the writer Albert Camus:”Oh Camus, I cry to you / Stay my hero / You who died of a Dostoevsky in the heart“.
“Federer fascinates me! He is an incredible player, without the impression of fatigue … An admiration that is love up to this point!“, recognizes this inspired lyricist and renowned composer of the Swiss who has just retired.”I arrived late to my concerts because I saw his matches in my dressing room!“.
The time of retirement inevitably inspires him Retirementa touching title: “I am a brave old man / In a suburban hole / My life is not a party / Yet I am stubborn“. With the song Beautiful boyjokes: “You’re like a brand new penny / At the bluff lottery / You’re like a commodity / Who thinks it will last“.
Affirm the title of singer who will have done more concerts up to 75 years “with sometimes 300 concerts a year“, Serge Lama says he gave everything for this latest album:”I put all my heart and all my soul into it… “.
If he were to give up the stage permanently, Serge Lama could accept a special broadcast: “on television, there are possible deals with the devil. If a singer asks me to write songs for him, he will be happy“.”Comedy because not also, but for a character sitting on the edge“, he laughs. “I have no illusions: nothing will be remembered by me“, He adds.”We will not write a thesis on Serge Lama … From up there, I would be surprised to see him!“.
