Didier Barbelivien is one of the most prolific songwriters in French song. If some people remember him riding a convertible with Félix Gray in the clip To all the girls, he is also the author of hits that have stayed in everyone's memories. Lyricist Patricia Kaas, Johnny Hallyday, Michel Sardou and so many others, it embodies the uninhibited French variety. This intimate friend of Nicolas Sarkozy, who often has the verb high on societal subjects, has moreover recently complained of the management by the executive of the health crisis. "We could confine otherwise, it was done indiscriminately. We blocked the whole of France, because we settled on the Chinese, but it was not at all the same situation. Confining Le Croisic or Le Pouliguen, I didn't see the point.", he said in the podcast Like at home from Journal West France.
Didier Barbelivien must undergo vocal cord surgery
During confinement, the lyricist composed a song with Gilbert Montagné, entitled If you help us to pay tribute to caregivers. "It really happened in a magic way sincerely. There was no calculation. I composed this melody about a fortnight ago. The melody happened to me immediately. I didn’t retouch anything and I said to myself: 'Wow, this is a melody that I want to hear sing by anonymous people, I don't want personalities, I want the caregivers.'", he confided Friday May 1 in Morandini Live sure Cnews. But Didier Barbelivien, 66, cannot interpret it for the moment due to minor health problems. "Strangely, inactivity tires the body. Then, how are you doing. Finally, I am waiting to be operated on for a polyp on the vocal cords too. That’s the icing on the cake, but it’s not that bad.", he explained to West France.
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