Jean-Louis Murat: when he attacked Johnny Hallyday, considered a “shabby and nerdy singer”

Jean-Louis Murat, died on May 25, 2023 at the age of 71, did not appreciate the singing talents of Johnny Hallyday, and let it be known. The singer who had just released his new album in 2019 entitled Il Murat Innamorato gave an interview to Unbreakablein which he referred to the “bad taste of the French public”. Jean Louis Murat painted a harsh portrait of the rocker who died on December 5, 2017, whose talent he denied. What to attract the wrath of fans of the legend of French song. “Because of the popularity of seedy and corny singers like Johnny Hallyday, it’s as if we had cultivated stupidity as a national standard. Nevertheless, the day he died, it was a relief. Like a June 6, 1994 music. Because of him, we went for losers for fifty years”said Jean Louis Murat to the magazine.

Johnny Hallydaybut also new artists, such as the duo NLP of which he pointed the finger “artificial success”. He, he assured him, never sought to be loved by the public at all costs. “I obviously won’t say that I sought failure, but to be dubbed by a people who swear only by Johnny Hallyday or Patrick Bruel would have bothered me a lot”, he assures. And concluded… “but what miserable country has France become!”