We couldn't ask for a better godfather for his first major television show.
On September 30, 1961, Georges Brassens appeared in “Discorama”, the time to say all the good things he thought about Anne Sylvestre and what he called his
“sung poems”
.
"Among the young people of the song, it is the one which stands out for its most eminent qualities"
, he said to Jean-Pierre Darras.
He concludes by asking him to interpret
Madam my neighbor
.
By accompanying on the guitar.
Like him.
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On February 13, the singer was morally rejuvenated by six decades by rediscovering this sequence, and some others, the time of a "carte blanche" made for Madelen.
She was then preparing to create a show "New Rides", composed of songs written on the eve of her 86 spring.
"If you don't write, you die,"
she said in this interview, where she was more talkative than usual.
She never liked to explain, she always preferred to tell, in front of an audience deliberately limited, but faithful.
In the 1970s, focusing on quality over quantity, she refused to perform in very large venues.
Those who insisted a little too much in the hope of changing her mind, learned, the hard way, that this woman, apparently so sweet, was capable of getting very angry.
“Boiling like this is a driving force”
, she explains in this “Carte Blanche”, adding that she has struck out of her vocabulary the word “serenity”.
This state of mind corresponds to her pugnacity in battles that she has never ceased to lead, starting with, the first of them, her claimed feminism.
A pioneer in the defense of parity, she has however always refused to sign any manifesto.
Her songs spoke for her.
"I am a singer released"
, she liked to specify with a humor which she cultivated, from her beginnings in the Parisian cabarets.
At La Colombe, she created friendships with Pierre Perret, while at Les Trois Baudets, she became a fan of an ex-mime who prowled his first monologues, Raymond Devos.
Au Cheval d'Or, rue Mouffetard, was born a bond with Boby Lapointe.
He arrived on stage like a frogman, and recited his verses in general indifference.
Anne Sylvestre, on the other hand, was laughing out loud.
This is how she wrote and recorded with him,
Since the time that I wait for my prince charming
.
The sequence shot in 1970 for the show "Top à la Une" is a piece of anthology.
"
The only person I can ask for things and be sure it will be done is me
"
Anne Sylvestre
Finally, it owes its fame, even its posterity, to “Fabulettes”, taught since the 1960s in hundreds of primary schools.
She began to imagine them to put her daughter to sleep in her pram.
The first one, do
you want to get in my boat?
, and the following ones, were gathered in 18 CDs, of which she is the producer.
"Because the only person to whom I can ask things while being sure that it will be done, it is me"
, said this rigorous artist, evoking childhood which
"is lived, kept or lost"
.
She kept it until the end.
His youthful gaze while discovering, on Madelen, the images of his past constitutes the obvious proof.
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