Singer Dani has chosen to formalize the unique bond she had with Emmanuel Auger, born from a first union of Benjamin Auger, and to adopt him.
Around 3,000 people gathered at Saint Jean-Baptiste Cathedral in Perpignan on Tuesday to bid farewell to Dani, died on July 17 at the age of 77. On the occasion of his disappearance, Gala remembers the relationship that the singer had with her children and in particular with Emmanuel Auger, born of a first union of Benjamin Auger. When she meets him, Emmanuel is only four months old and from then on, she considers him as her own child. So much so that she later did the administrative procedures necessary to adopt it and formalize this precious bond she had with him. A nice gesture. ” Immanuel came into my life when he was only four months old. I raised him like my son “, she confided to our colleagues in 2016. And to continue: “ Julien (the son she later had with Benjamin Auger, editor’s note) only happened five years later. There was no jealousy. Now 57, Emmanuel Auger has always been part of the singer’s family: ” When I was expecting Julien, one day Emmanuel put his hand on my belly and asked if he too was fidgeting like this. I answered him : ‘No, you, I found you all done, when I took you in my arms, you were moving very hard’. I dropped him off at school and I burst into tears”.
Dani was working on a new album
It is full of emotions and sorrow that Emmanuel and Julien accompanied their mother to her last home on Tuesday, just like Gérard Lanvin, Mathilde Seigner, Anthony Delon or even Cali. Danièle Graule, nicknamed Dani, was still ” active and happy at the time of his death, according to his manager Lambert Boudier.
She had just finished her album tour. Golden Horizons and was already working on the next “ whom she had mischievously chosen to call ‘Caution Departure’ “said his manager. And to ironically sadly: We were warned. She had just forgotten to tell us that it would be imminent… »