2024 - Emilie Jolie: Philippe Chatel's daughter speaks for the first time

Wednesday August 31, 2022, the daughter of Philippe Chatel granted an interview to the Parisian. At 46, the young woman confided in her relationship with her father and spoke fondly of her career.

A beautiful declaration of love… In 1979, Philippe Chatel dedicated to his 4-year-old daughter, Emilie, the musical Emily Jolie. At the origin of the tale, she had asked her father to play her a song with a blue rabbit, then a hedgehog song. The duo was then far from suspecting the success of Emilie Jolie. Almost a year after the death of her father, Emilie Chatel revealed her face for the first time. In an interview given to Parisianthe young woman confided on Wednesday August 31, 2022 with emotion: “It’s important for me to feel him close to me, to see him, to listen to him… I wear jewelry that belonged to him.“Wishing above all that the work of her father stays on display as long as possible, she said: “I want people who love him to be able to listen to him, I fight so that we don’t forget him.“

Moved, Emilie Chatel slipped: “It was very important for my dad that all this comes out – the anthology should have appeared during his lifetime – and where he is, I know he will be happy.“While she and her father were very close, the young woman confided to the magazine:”We were very, very close. He was strict, you had to walk straight, but he was attentive and loved his children very much. I love my grandpa very much. He was a very brave man.“Having wanted to protect her from the media, her parents chose never to put her on stage.”They wanted to protect me, I think. They never took a picture of me. Even when I was older, especially when they staged Émilie Jolie at the Cirque d’Hiver (in 1985), I was old enough to play the little girl, I took singing lessons, they didn’t want and it hurt me. But they really split the two“, she said.

How did Philippe Chatel die?

Friday February 19, 2021, the singer-songwriter died at the age of 72. His daughter, Emilie Chatel, had indicated that he had succumbed to a heart attack in his apartment in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. On March 10, 2021, he was cremated at the Père Lachaise crematorium. Shortly before his death, Philippe Chatel had applied for the French Academy.

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Philippe Chatel
At the origin of the tale, his daughter had asked him to play a song with a blue rabbit, then a hedgehog song.

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Philippe Chatel
The duo was then far from suspecting the success of Emilie Jolie.

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Philippe Chatel
Almost a year after the death of her father, Emilie Chatel revealed her face for the first time.

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Philippe Chatel
In an interview granted to Parisian, the young woman confided on Wednesday August 31, 2022 with emotion: “It is important for me to feel him close to me, to see him, to listen to him …”

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Philippe Chatel
Wishing above all that the work of her father stays on display as long as possible, she said: “I want people who love it to be able to listen to it, I fight so that it is not do not forget.”

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Philippe Chatel
Moved, Emilie Chatel slipped: “It was very important for my dad that all of this comes out – the anthology should have appeared during his lifetime – and where he is, I know he will be happy.”

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Philippe Chatel
While she and her father were very close, the young woman confided to the magazine: “We were very, very close. He was strict, you had to walk straight, but he was attentive and loved his children very much.”