Patrick Bruel is very close to his mother, Augusta. In February 2023, the singer and actor took him on the trail of their origins, in Tlemcen, in the north of Algeria. Sixty years after their departure, the duo recalled beautiful memories tinged with tenderness: “I had the chance to grow up in an environment where between my grandparents, my uncles and my mother, there were never any violent words, any feeling of revenge, any feeling of hatred, on the contrary, the proof that the communities lived well together in Algeria, ‘era”had confided the singer to the Sunday newspaper. Their old apartment, the school in which Augusta taught… Mother and son reviewed these places in which they experienced unforgettable moments. “I came with my memory”, then recounted Patrick Bruel’s mother, determined to pass on her memorial heritage to her son. Nothing seems to have tainted these memories, not even those of their hasty departure. “I did not think. In a hurry, we don’t have time to ask too many questions, nor to have particular states of mind. Maybe being responsible for a child gives you some strength.”had recognized the mother of Patrick Bruel, in the columns of Sunday newspaper.
A wasted career
Arriving in France at the age of three, Patrick Bruel found a loyal audience there which took him to the top of the bill as a singer but also an actor. Sunday February 4, 2024, he spoke about this artistic career. As he releases a new album titled Once again, Patrick Bruel remembered his football potential when he was young. Long before singing, young Patrick dreamed of football, but his family decided otherwise. “Would I have been a great footballer? It’s the only thing my family stopped me from doing. At 14, I played for the PUC (Paris Université Club) and the managers of INF Vichy, the training center which is today Clairefontaine, offered me the professional adventure! But great family advice, to my great regret. Bye-bye green fields”he regretted in the columns of The Sunday Tribune. At that time, France was playing in the 1986 World Cup and Patrick Bruel said to his mother: “That day, I said to my mother: ‘You ruined my career’. But it was June 21, Music Day, I think it was a sign.”.