The year 2021 marks the 40 years of Etienne Daho’s career. An opportunity for him to retrospect his career, and thus evoke one of his main regrets to our colleagues from France Info.
Who does not know Etienne Daho? With 40 years of career, the interpreter of Pop Satori is one of the French singers most appreciated by the public, despite his difficult beginnings. His years of work even earned him, on December 2, a medal awarded by the Académie française for its entire repertoire. A pride for Jane Birkin’s sidekick.
In addition to his successful solo performances, Étienne Daho does not hide it, he is proud of what he has accomplished during collaborations. “As I meet, things get done and it turns out that the people who like me, I also like them a lot. After a while, we meet and the best way to meet is to record together“, he confided in the columns of France Info. The artist admits that he would also have liked to work with a certain personality : Serge Gainsbourg.
“I would have loved to have a record with him”
Étienne Daho has worked with the greatest such as Jacques Dutronc, Alain Bashung, Daniel Darc, Françoise Hardy, Jane Birkin, Catherine Deneuve, or even Jeanne Moreau, but he did not have the chance to collaborate with Serge Gainsbourg, whom he knew very well. A very big regret for him. “I really had a great relationship with Serge Gainsbourg, but we never worked together“, he declared to our colleagues, before continuing: “I was very scared of being stamped. I’m stupid, because with hindsight, I would have loved to have a record with him, of course. But I do not know, with the pride, perhaps the arrogance of my nascent success, I said to myself: I prefer to do things on my own “. No doubt he will now seize the opportunity to collaborate with an artist as soon as the mood takes him.