Born on January 26, 1957, Michel Sardou celebrates his seventy-fifth birthday today. The opportunity to discover more about the man behind the artist with a fifty-year career.
On stage for more than half a century, Michel Sardou goes through the ages without losing its popularity. And if the artist and his songs are famous, his life away from recording studios and concert halls mysterious abode. For his seventy-fifth birthdaythis Wednesday January 26, diving in the intimacy of this man, became a father in the early hours of his majorityat the very moment when the spotlights began to illuminate his face.
On January 15, 1970, Francoise Pettrehis love of youth and first wife, gives birth to Sandrine. At 23, as his career took off, the child of Fernand and Jackie Sardou discover fatherhood. Three years later, a few days before Christmas, Cynthia comes to enlarge the familybarely a month before Romain was born, the son that the artist conceives with his mistressElisabeth Haas, who became his wife in the fall of 1977. Then, Davy, the fourth and last child of Michel Sardouwas born in 1978.
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Michel Sardou: what happened to his children?
Discreet about his private life, Michel Sardou rarely mentions his children. Yes Sandrine and Cynthia evolve away from the cameras, his boys are in the light. While his first son, a writer, multiplies the successes in bookstoresthe youngest, became an actorperpetuates the dynasty of artists of the Sardou family. Of her daughters, we don’t know much, except that Cynthia was the victim of a gang rape on Christmas Eve 1999. A drama she recounts in Call me Li Lou, published in 2005 by Éditions du Rocher.
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