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Death of Marcel Amont: tributes hailing "a solar artist"

2023-03-09T11:16:29.394Z


REACTIONS – The Bearnais singer died at 93. The personalities of the culture were keen, in addition to his talent, to honor the luminous character of the artist.


Marcel Amont died at the age of 93 on Wednesday afternoon at his home in Saint-Cloud, in the west of Paris, surrounded by his family, his wife Marlène and his children, announced to Figaro Jean-Pierre Pasqualini, director of programs for

Melody

.

“With Line Renaud and Hugues Auffray, he was one of the last representatives of the music hall”,

testified this close friend of the artist who honors the memory of this

“complete artist, able to make people smile and laugh, to make people think. or cry"

.

Read alsoDeath of Marcel Amont, the man who gave everything for the song

On social networks, tributes celebrate, in addition to his talent, a luminous and sparkling personality imbued with a remarkable fantasy.

“A child of 93 brooms, hyperactive with a big heart, a child of the music hall, sunny and always generous”

, greets the singer Aldebert with emotion, accompanying his text with a photo with the deceased.

Words corroborated by Rima Abdul Malak:

“The stage was his kingdom.

Music hall giant, radiant, generous, Marcel Amont has made millions of hearts leap across the world.

In French as in Béarnais, his songs will always be there to transmit his fantasy, his panache and his blue blue dream to us, ”

wrote the Minister of Culture on Twitter.

Pierre Lescure also remembers a spirited man.

“He would like us to play his greatest success.

Marcel Amont sang superbly, he sparkled with intelligence and irony and was a brilliant fanciful singer.

And an honest man, always committed, ”

wrote the former president of the Cannes festival.

“Although he is not of my generation, any

#song lover

must have it in his library”,

urges the young pianist William Theviot, on Twitter.

While inviting the public to listen to

Le Mexicain,

a title that belongs to the heritage of French song. 

Among the political reactions, the Béarnais François Bayrou pays tribute to the artist:

"Lovers of song, of his audience, of the Pyrenees, of our Béarnaise and Gascon language",

expressing a thought for his loved ones.

Source: lefigaro

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