Decidedly in verve, Michel Fugain attacks Julien Doré after having targeted Benjamin Biolay. We decipher his remarks in the columns of the magazine Ciné Télé Revue.
In 2007, Julien Doré was propelled to the front of the stage by winning the Nouvelle Star. A double victory since that same year, the magazine SHE the bed “sexiest man of the year“. Julien Doré savors his triumph all the more as he comes from afar. Before giving voice to television sets, the singer attended the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Nîmes, scoured the bars of the region with his fellow musicians while earning a living in a handling company. 2007 also marked a turning point in the private life of Julien Doré who now shares his life with the Miss Weather of Canal + in Le Grand Journal, Louise Bourgoin, a romance which will end three years later. No one would have imagined that the candidate of the Nouvelle Star was promised such a great career. With his barrette in his hair and his taste for offbeat humor, Julien Dore has long had to endure ridicule until titles like Limits, Côco Caline and more recently Getting old impose him as a major figure in French song.
Despite his undeniable success, the famous ukulele player still has to face challenges from his colleagues. SoMichael Fugain who took it out on him for free during an interview granted to the Belgian magazine Cine TV Revue this Thursday, December 15. The founder of the Big Bazaar not only mocks “his long hair” but also the talent of Julien Doré.“It doesn’t speak to me more than rap! It lacks emotion“explains Michel Fugain, convinced that the new generation of French singers is not up to his own. “They don’t know how to make popular songs”. As a reminder, Benjamin Biolay regularly suffers the wrath of his elder. The former companion of Vanessa Paradis ended up reacting on Sunday November 27 in an Instagram story directly addressed to “Mimi the runaway“: “Neither do I I don’t like what you are doing Mr. Michel Fugainbut I don’t feel obligated to harass you through the press since 2008″.
This other shock statement from Michel Fugain
If he was married to Stéphanie for more than 30 years, Michel Fugain does not have the language of his pocket when it comes to evoking Stephanie, the mother of his three children. A marriage abruptly broken up after the death of their daughter Laurette who died of leukemia in 2002. “At 60, I fell in love with the woman of my life, Sanda. I lived before with another woman [Stéphanie], who bore me children. But openly she was not the woman of my life“, straightforwardly entrusts Michel Fugain to our colleagues at Cine TV Revue. He explains: “I didn’t want to die with her, especially since at one point she told me I wasn’t her friend. Which shocked me. Love without friendship is a mistake.” This complicity, the singer explains having found it with Sanda, met by chance in 2002 in a piano bar in Corsica. “In Romania, which she fled under Ceausescu, she was a very great singer. I’ve always been captivated by his voice.”adds Michael Fugain who now dreams of recording a duet with his wife. “It’s nice. We have total complicity.” In the meantime, the artist will travel the roads of France and Belgium with his show “Michel Fugain fait Bandapart” from January 2023.