Jane Birkin “dejected”: she rarely evokes the death of her daughter Kate

More than nine years after the death of her daughter Kate Barry, Jane Birkin does not go a day without thinking of her. As a reminder, the young woman was only 46 years old when she breathed her last after being the victim of a fatal fall from the 5th floor of her apartment, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. The famous singer then fell into a serious depression. She had the feeling that she no longer hadthe right to exist“, because she “had almost” in her role as a mother. In the columns of ProvenceSaturday January 21, 2023, she opened up about her late daughter while on tour with her latest album Oh ! Sorry you were sleepingin which it is very present.

It is in particular the loss of his daughter that allowed him to write his last album. “We started with the hardest songs that I had written in my diary when I was in Lyon and I was extremely devastated over Kate’s death.“, she said. Still devastated by the death of her daughter, the one who is also the mother of Charlotte Gainsbourg added: “I had gone to a pharmacy where there was a small kit with everything you need for toenails. And it reminded me of Kate who was the only person in the world I knew who paid so much attention to her delicate feet.“.

Jane Birkin feels like she got ahead through writing

Taken by emotion, she could not contain her tears. Her artistic director had then given her advice to write all the feelings she could feel since the death of her daughter. “Indeed, I wrote Thick Walls and Cigarette. It was Étienne (Daho who produced the album with her, editor’s note) who found the title for Les Murs thick. He fully understood the horror of going to the cemetery and imagining what is happening below.“, she confided again, with a heavy heart. Despite everything, she had the feeling that it did her good to talk about Kate in song.