While Chantal Goya has just performed in Brussels, Jean-Jacques Debout is publishing a new volume of his Memoirs (1).
“I'm so proud of her.
We have been married for fifty-eight years.
For a couple of artists, it must be a record.
If both work so much after 80 years old it is partly because of financial difficulties.
The rights to the 1032 titles signed Debout, including
For me, life will begin
(Johnny Hallyday),
As Mistinguett said
(Dalida),
Captain Flam
or even
Like a boy
(Sylvie Vartan) are no longer enough.
In his book, he does not address this dark side.
He just writes,
"I'm not a saint."
These 323 pages, he wrote them during the pandemic.
“I bought my grandmother's house, in Vatan, in Indre, where my mother had taken me as a baby to escape the occupation in Paris.
We are very happy there.”
He can hold entire dinners with his memories.
Sprinkled evenings with Charles Trenet, Luis Mariano who invented the name of…
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