Eric Cantona is definitely a jack of all trades. After a career in football, he went into film, theatre and painting. He is now trying his luck in music with two titles he composed himself, The friends we lost and Tu me diras whose release is scheduled for June 2. He posted an excerpt on his Instagram account. The former sportsman plays the baritones.
"The most intense thing to experience"
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I always thought that singing on a stage should be the most intense thing to experience." The music, which, according to the former striker "could provide an adrenaline close to that created by the sport," he explains to the Parisian.
A jump in the big bath, which Eric Cantona compares to the first time he climbed on the boards. "What I feel today is more like the months before my first time in the theatre, when I was immediately thrown into the deep end. It's not fear, it's excitement," he says. We often confuse stage fright, which paralyzes, and excitement, which galvanizes. A feeling that has nothing to do with playing on the field in front of 80,000 spectators. "In football, I started young, and I gradually played in front of 100, then 500, then 1000,<> people," he says.
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He already tried his hand at music in 2012, composing "all the lyrics of Rachida's album" [Brakni], his wife. He also wrote in 2017 those of the title Le temps passe, interpreted by the group Lady Sir, composed of his wife and musician Gaëtan Roussel. "I've always written, I love the musicality and poetry of words, the freedom you find there. " A writing under the pseudonym of Auguste Raurich at the time "from the first name of my great-uncle and the maiden name of my mother", he reveals. "It was a way to double down on preconceptions, so that people would take this song seriously.
»The former sportsman is also starring in the film Aka, available on Netflix and the feature film The Colossus with Feet of Clay broadcast in early May on TF1. In October, he will defend his new songs during an international tour that will begin in Manchester, the city where the striker played for five years.