It's been four years since Jacques Dutronc hasn't sung in front of his audience.
His last concert, the singer had given in 2017 in the company of Eddy Mitchell and Johnny Hallyday, who died in December of the same year.
Motivated by his son Thomas, Jacques Dutronc will return to the stage in spring 2022, as revealed by
Paris Match
.
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We do not yet know the roadmap of this journey, which the singer of
The Opportunist
does not want to present as a farewell tour. It will start in the spring and end with the last days of summer. As for the repertoire that will be played, our colleagues from
Paris Match
evoke the songs of the 1960s and 1970s by the star of the yéyé.
As Jacques Dutronc told Europe 1 on Saturday, there will be duets and solos.
He will do
"five songs"
and his son
"about twenty"
, he adds, probably about the solos.
"
As he made me redo
Le petit jardin,
we will surely sing it together
", continues Dutronc, referring to the title released in 1972 in which he sang:
"It was a small garden / Which smelled like the metropolitan / Which smelled good the Parisian basin (…) / It was a small garden / At the end of a courtyard at the Chaussée-d'Antin. ”
The memory of the old scoundrels
Why hit the road again? “
It's for taxes! And for the public, of course… It's not just taxes in life,
”the 78-year-old singer answers jokingly. These concerts will be produced by Lagardère Unlimited Live Entertainment, which organizes concerts for Florent Pagny and Jean-Louis Aubert and manages the Casino de Paris, the Bataclan and the Folies Bergère in particular.
In 2017, Jacques Dutronc performed in public as part of the Vieilles Canailles tour.
“After the last concert, we met at the table with his lifelong friend Jean Reno and other people who gathered. He was full of projects, as usual, ”
he remembered about his sidekick Johnny Hallyday in
Le Figaro
.
“It was the reunion of three friends who got together to sing together,” said
Eddy Mitchell.