Curious by nature, Bertrand is always on the lookout for the slightest little scoop. Passionate about football, he is never far from football and all the news that comes with it. However, showbiz or political events are also part of his preferred journalistic research.
Etienne Daho returned this Monday, January 15 in “En Aparté” on the abandonment of his father and the consequences of this on his career. Rare confidences from the singer.
Etienne Daho, “As an aside”. © As an aside
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Etienne Daho did not grow up with his father. The latter abandoned him when he was still a little boy. “He came to Cape Falcon (where the singer grew up, editor’s note) in a Jeep with friends, he hugged me very tightly, didn’t say anything to me and left“, he remembered in particular for L’Obs in 2017. A painful and personal subject mentioned by Nathalie Levy this Monday January 15 in As an aside on Canal+.
“There is also this lack in you Étienne Daho, this lack of the father. Do you think you would have fought in the same way, to seek a form of refused recognition, if he hadn’t left when you were five?” she asked herself, before the artist responded, without any filter : “I don’t know. In any case, he did well… to leave.“
Etienne Daho nevertheless had the opportunity to reconnect with him, at least to see him again, during one of his concerts at the Olympia, in 1986. But he refused: “He showed up with his new family, my mother was there, they hadn’t seen each other for a very long time. I knew before I went on stage what the situation was. It was terrible for me, I was very afraid that my mother would be hurt, it really ruined the whole concert for me.“
Etienne Daho in concert
But why didn’t he give him another chance? “It was too late. You know, when people are not there, we build ourselves without them“, replied, well, the one who was close to Jane Birkin, or even to Dani. He actually did not have the opportunity to grow up with “A model“and therefore adapted.”First of all, it’s important to have a father and a mother to have the idea of what a couple can be, so it took me a long time to tell myself how it works. And then also, when one of your parents is not there, in this case a masculine figure for a boy, we find it differently, we construct it differently.“
He therefore did not miss this absence of a father figure. “Because I was in a family that gave me a lot of love and a lot of joy and that gave me structure, so I didn’t have that lack.“Finally note that Etienne Daho, who released a new album in May 2023 entitled Shoot the stars at nightstill gives concerts and will be in Nice on May 11 for a show planned at the Palais Nikaïa.
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