Unforgettable memories. Guest on the set of C to you, Tuesday January 23, 2024, Vanessa Paradis was able to rediscover a significant sequence in her career. Indeed, Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine’s team rebroadcast the Victoires de la musique ceremony of February 3, 1990, during which she participated in the tribute paid to Serge Gainsbourg by performing Javanese. “It must have been unreal, right?” asked the presenter of France 5. Enough to move the singer a lot: “It was crazy, how lucky I was to live alongside him for a few months ! To share the studios, to share moments at home too, and then he was very paternal, very gentle, very elegant… so elegant!“ she remembers, her eyes lost in her memories. “Really, it was wonderful”adds the mother of Lily-Rose and Jack Depp.
Vanessa Paradis “didn’t realize her luck”
If at the time, Vanessa Paradis was very young, having just turned 18 at the Victoires de la Musique, she had already had the chance to work with the singer: “I believe, in fact, I didn’t realize how lucky I was at the time. what it’s like to be able to spend months at his side, and to have a record signed by him”, she adds honestly. In fact, the legendary singer and lyricist wrote an entire album of eleven songs for her, Variations on the same love you, which was released on May 28, 1990 and which immediately met with great success, since it was certified gold and platinum. Serge Gainsbourg is not the only artist who has left his mark on Vanessa Paradis during her career. The singer had the opportunity to meet the greatest, and among them, Jane Birkin, who unfortunately passed away on July 16, 2023. Saturday February 3, 2024, she will thus pay him a beautiful tribute on the stage of the Olympia with Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon, the daughters of the late artist, accompanied by other personalities like Etienne Daho or Sandrine Kiberlain. All profits will be donated to the Restos du coeur association.