"I am coming back to the world"
.
It is with these few words breathed on guitar chords that Jean-Louis Aubert expressed his joy and his gratitude to be still alive.
If he is on his feet today and is preparing to release a reissue of his album
Refuge
released on November 15, 2019, everything could have suddenly stopped this summer.
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During a routine examination carried out in July for a possible infection with covid-19, the former leader of the Telephone group learns that he has a heart defect.
It is then necessary to operate urgently to avoid the worst.
“Entering the hospital the day after a radio show when you feel very good and find yourself in a few hours on the edge of life breathing between two walls of pain, it can seem like a hassle.
(...) I am recovering at an incredible speed (it seems) and I have a very good morale (accompanied by your tender thoughts) "
, he confided to his fans via his social networks after the intervention.
Shortly after, he was, like many artists, forced to postpone his tour, the "OLO TOUR".
Not enough to bring him down.
A few days ago, between a few guitar riffs and songs, Jean-Louis Aubert recounted in detail his hospitalization during a live on Facebook.
“A school friend who's a doctor tells me it's better to have a CT scan.
I am told that the lungs are fine, but that behind it there is a heart and that I have a birth defect
,
”he
says.
"'You risk falling there, or later," "he explained.
“At the end of the operation I was doing the mariole.
At the end of a week I was going up the stairs of the hospital at full speed with my chest gutted, ”
he then says, laughing.
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Monday on BFM, the interpreter of
Alter Ego
spoke for the first time in the media.
“You can fall anytime, like Joe Strummer, like Elvis Presley.
I couldn't live with that sword of Damocles so it's just the knowledge of it.
Maybe my life was saved, surely, ”
he confided with a smile on his face.
