“I wasn’t needed,” this famous singer explains why he left the troupe

THE Bastards have once again succeeded in uniting in Bordeaux this year! The troupe gathered in January for its annual show called We are 35 years old! and supported on the radio waves by the single Until the last one co-signed by Patrick Bruel. New personalities have joined the collective, after Sofia Essaïdi last year. In addition to the star dancer Guillaume Diop, the comedian Clauda Tagbo took to the stage of the Arkéa Arena, just like the singer Santa, alongside other regulars who have invested every year for a long time for the benefit of Restos du Coeur. Jumbled together, Patrick Fiori, Zaz, Jenifer and even Nolwenn Leroy mobilized around cult titles like And one day a woman (Florent Pagny), For you to love me again (Celine Dion) or Beautiful (Notre Dame de Paris).

Like every year, other personalities working in the fields of sport, music or cinema have also decided to leave Les Enfoirés. This is the case of Christophe Maé and Jean-Louis Aubert. But it’s the singer Gregory who decided to speak out in turn about his departure seven years ago. He remembered it like it was yesterday Telepro on Tuesday March 19. Interviewed on the occasion of his musical return with the album Livethe interpreter You+Me explained that he had asked himself the question of his withdrawal after Jean-Jacques Goldman jumped ship in 2016. A year before him!

Grégoire ready to rejoin the Enfoirés troupe

The singer, now 44 years old, remembered this retirement of Jean-Jacques Goldman. “When he left and said ‘That’s it, it’s running without me’, I realized that I had the impression of being the guy who comes back every year, who no longer has any news. . I felt like I wasn’t needed, I didn’t want to be the guy who clings. So naturally, I too, the following year I left”he revealed, he who was preparing to publish the album To listen urgently in 2017, then Experiences the next year. For our colleagues, he insisted on the fact that at the time he was already very “busy” by her children and by setting poems to music for Natasha St-Pier. “I did a musical, but I was no longer in the spotlight. The only thing I was still doing was Les Enfoirés”he added.

Grégoire made it known that he had nevertheless asked himself the question of a possible return to the Enfoirés afterwards. Particularly this year, when he published his album Live at the end of January. “Not long ago, to be very honest, I said to myself why not go back. I love the cause, but it’s been five years”he asked himself, before admitting that he was quite willing to operate his comeback for future editions. “I don’t know how things are going today, if you need me obviously I will come and pop my head… Next year, the year after, I’m totally open!”he concluded.

The meeting with Jean-Jacques Goldman

At the same time, Grégoire agreed to answer Dominique Lagrou-Sempère’s questions for his podcast Between you and me. He looked back on his participation in Les Enfoirés for eight years and also remembered his meeting with Jean-Jacques Goldmanthen troop leader. “When I arrive at Les Enfoirés, I know that I am going to meet him and I wonder what I am going to do. I stupidly told myself that I had to be as natural as possible because if he likes me”he wanted to make known first.

Grégoire said of Jean-Jacques Goldman that he was of a “extreme kindness” and he knew his song Your hand that the collective took over for the 19th edition in 2010. “There are forty-four of us, there is no fixed place. And on TV, when you watch it, you see that I am in front, singing with all the others and the guy who is next to me. left and who takes my hand, it’s Jean-Jacques Goldman”he recalled, sharing an emotion that was still palpable.

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