Renaud, 69, is preparing
"an album of covers"
by Montand, Ferrat, Moustaki, Reggiani or even Françoise Hardy, who
"will be released in February"
, he announced Thursday in
Le Parisien.
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Renaud, a great popular singer who invented a language
"
“
I sing.
I've been in the studio for ten days, I'm preparing an album of covers, thirteen old French songs that have marked me, Yves Montand, Jean Ferrat, Moustaki, Reggiani, Françoise Hardy
”, explains the singer whose health, damaged by years of excess, worries his fans at regular intervals.
“
There are still the voices and the violins to be done,”
develops the artist
.
I've wanted to do this album for years.
We work between Paris and L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue (Vaucluse), where I have lived almost year-round for two years.
It will be released in February, when there is no more competition.
And it will hurt!
".
"A new man"
Her voice was in a bad state on her last album released in winter 2019,
Kids and Kids First
. Asked on this point, he replies that "
it's okay, it's holding up
". Renaud affirms, as he does regularly, to have "
eliminated the cigarette
" and to be "
passed from sixty a day to fifteen
". Once again, he claims to have "
definitively stopped alcohol for six months.
"
“
I am a new man. I just have a muscle problem in my back, which forces me to sit down regularly,
”he concedes. The “wild chetron”, one of his nicknames, does not dream of a return on stage: “
No, I am retired. I will do a minimum of promotion, that's all
”.
"Mister Renard"
finally confides to be vaccinated against the Covid. “
I didn't want too much at first, I'm still against ... vaccines. But I need the health pass to go to my bistros, restaurants, taxis.
"
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