“
It's not easy to look at a picture of you.
It's not easy not to cry when I think of you...
” In 1986, Carol Arnauld dedicated this song to her brother who had disappeared too soon in a car accident.
It's not easy
won a silver disc.
This soft-hearted singer just left us on September 9th.
She succumbed to cancer.
She was only 61 years old.
After experiencing success with
C'est pas facile
, which sold some 250,000 copies and entered the top 10 of the charts, the singer put her career on hold to open a restaurant near Chalon-sur-Saône,
La Chouette .
cold
.
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In the 2010s, nostalgia pushed her back on stage during the
Tender Age and Wooden Head
tours .
She repeated on stage the words of the song which, for a time, had made her glory:
“I don't want to tell myself that it's over.
I don't want to tell myself that you're gone.
That you are there all alone up there in paradise...
”The funeral of Carol Valère, - Arnauld was the name of her adored brother -, will take place on Wednesday September 14 at 3 p.m. at the Funérarium de Crissey, town north of Chalon -sur-Saone.
Carol Arnauld sings
C'est pas facile
in 1986