I come from a song by the Gypsies, you by the musicians of Paris...
Didier Barbelivien says everything about his inspiration with the words of this ritornello which begins with a violin tune.
The singer, who likes to call himself a "
song maker
" for, excuse me, Johnny Hallyday, Michel Sardou, Patricia Kaas, Enrico Macias and other acrobats has just released his new and ultimate album, simply titled
Didier Barbelivien
and composed like a love letter to his fans who have been following him since his debut 40 years ago.
Didier Barbelivien is a singer-songwriter who marked the history of French song by writing hits for the crème de la crème of the stars of the scene.
But today, it is the interpreter, who wants one last time with a record full of promise, to revisit the feelings that have always inhabited him.
The titles of his songs resemble poems by Lamartine, Musset or Nerval:
Le Temps d'aimer
,
Nuages gris
,
Le Secret
,
La chanson des Gypsies
...
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Didier Barbelivien sings
The Song of the Gypsies
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The first single ,
La chanson des Gypsies
, is an imaginary dialogue, in a tone of confidence, between two beings who want to understand what, deep inside themselves, makes them vibrate.
The words chosen sum up what has driven the singer-author since he was twenty.
The troubadour, who admires the anarchist philosopher Léo Ferré, reveals a bit of everything, here, about the secrets of his inspiration.
Claude Lemesle, the favorite lyricist of the late Joe Dassin, once wrote this fine eulogy to his colleague: “
Didier Barbelivien has been sowing flowers on the path of French song for forty years.
Flowers of all colors, of all seasons, words for all voices, for all lives.
He is a magician of images, a Fregoli of frequencies...
Our favorite Fregoli therefore takes us this time with
La Chanson des Gypsies
to the plains of Hungary or to Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, to once again make us believe that the dream and the French song are not dead.
Didier Barbelivien sings one of his greatest hits,
Elsa