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Friday evening, on the Figaro TV Île-de-France channel,
Raphaël
agreed to inaugurate the new “Live” set, a show which had stopped during the last confinement.
Coming to promote his tenth album
Another Life
, the artist performed
L'Espoir
and
Heures sup'
, two new tracks,
Éblouie par la nuit
(which he wrote and composed for Zaz), but also
Let's not leave angry
, one of his first successes, from his album
Caravane
, which sold a million and a half copies and was awarded three Victoires de la Musique.
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Raphaël never balks at the idea of reinterpreting hits from his repertoire on stage.
“Caravan
,
Et dans 150 ans
and
Let's not leave angry
, these are songs that I love and which never get tired.
I've played them a few times and you'd think the words no longer make any sense and I'm chewing it like gum but not at all.
Already, we can make very different versions and then the songs are ennobled by those who listen to them, as Leonard Cohen said,
he explains (from 45' in the video above).
When I start
Caravane
at a concert, I feel that there is a little thrill in the room, linked to memory, to memories.
It's like a perfume, it takes you on a journey in a second.
I would be really bad if I deprived people of this pleasure, I think
. ”
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On the other hand, there is one piece of his repertoire that he no longer sings in concert:
Sur la route
, a duet with Jean-Louis Aubert, released in 2003. “
She just annoys me a little.
I find it a little flat.
If someone asks me for it, I sing it and I comply immediately.
On the other hand, I don't repeat it often.
It’s not a song that I particularly like
,” he confides.
Asked if Raphaël feels when he is writing a hit, he responds by joking about himself and the relative success of the latest albums.
“
I felt it for
Caravane
and
Et dans 150 ans
, less for the others.
But hey, with each album, I feel like I write 2-3 hits and each time, the future proves me wrong
.”
What about his personal playlist?
Raphaël recently cried to
Comme toi
by Jean-Jacques Goldman and loves Kanye West's music, even if he is a little ashamed to listen to it.
“
I find that his comments are filthy and that he is a bad guy but he is a great musician, he has a lot of talent.
Right now, this is perhaps one of the only times I'm ashamed to listen to a guy
."