Salvatore Adamo: 'My mother caught me impersonating Elvis Presley'

Salvatore Adamo, author-composer-performer recognized for almost sixty years, has not often sacrificed to the exercise of the recovery.

Under the leadership of Stephan Eicher, the man has just adapted a dozen titles from the Anglo-Saxon repertoire, from Bob Dylan to 10cc via Neil Young and Elton John.

A great exercise for which he shares the microphone with Jane Birkin, Daniel Auteuil and Gaëtan Roussel.

But also a great way to reinvent yourself, by affirming your love for songs.

LE FIGARO.

- We weren't expecting you with covers.

Why this album?

Salvatore ADAMO.

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I like to surprise, it's my teasing side.

And I still hope to find other surprises.

For ten years, I had an adaptation of the song

that I didn't know what to do with.

Slip it into one of my albums?

And then I wanted to have fun.

At the risk of being pretentious, I wanted to prove to those who locked me in the drawer of a certain song that I too have listened to...

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