When asked what it feels like to be the son of Gilbert Bécaud, he used to retort: “
I can't answer you, I've never had another father!
".
And added: “
What he transmitted to us, to my brother, my sisters and me, is an energy in the work.
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This energy, Gaya Bécaud, who died on Monday September 26 at the age of 69, used it for years at RTL to create skins and jingles.
Philippe Labro, who was program director between 1985 and 2000, paid tribute to this “
inventive and cheerful
” man, to his imagination and his “
unforgettable
” laugh.
“
RTL has very loving thoughts for a missing friend
, Yves Calvi announced on Wednesday morning
.
Gaya Bécaud died the day before yesterday, he was going to be 70 years old.
It's a very personal career that he led at RTL for years: music, antenna dressing... Everything that makes up the charm and the spirit of the station.
He was a companion of Laurent Gerra and his entire team, in addition to being a humorous videographer.
I have fond memories of the filming he had us do during two presidential elections.
Entitled “Les petits matins de campagne”, they mischievously showed the backstage of rue Bayard.
Gaya Bécaud recounted her career as follows:
“It was not fashionable to have someone take care of the antenna dressing.
One day the bosses at the time, Roger Kreicher and Raymond Castans
(director general of programs at RTL from 1978 to 1985, editor's note)
asked me if I had an idea for making jingles.
I thought to myself that I would try to include RTL in extracts of song
”.
This will be the case, for example, with
When the music is good
by Jean-Jacques Goldman.
Roger Kreicher died last March.
Raymond Castans, who was also a writer and playwright, died in 2006.
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Born in 1953, Gaya Bécaud had in his youth followed his father - who had composed a
Berceuse for Gaya in 1954 -
on all the concert routes.
He was his sole moral heir.
In the years following Gilbert Bécaud's death in 2001, a lawsuit tore the family apart.
The singer's last wife, Kitty Saint John, disputed the validity of the moral right and accused Gaya of not valuing her father's work enough.
Justice, in 2016, agreed with the creative director of RTL.
Marguerite Bécaud, Gaya's daughter, took over the torch some time ago.
She promised last year
“new projects”
: “
We have a lot of unpublished images and songs.”
