All signals appear green for renaud ! About to release a new album, the singer, who will celebrate his 70th birthday in May, seems to be in great shape. On Wednesday April 6, 2022, his eldest daughter, Lolita, posted a photo of them on her Instagram account, smiling and happy (see the slideshow). A fairly rare selfie for the author and designer, who likes to keep her relationship with her father rather discreet.
But the ex-wife of Renan Luce (father of his little Héloïse, 10 years old) could not resist the pleasure of showing how his famous dad seems to feel good at the moment. Gone to live far from Paris, in Isle sur la Sorgue in the south of France, Renaud is now done with his old demons and has even found a less rocky voice than at one time, which allows him to sing correctly. . “I eliminated the fag, I went from sixty a day to fifteen. I am addicted to vaping. And I definitely quit alcohol six months ago [il a plusieurs fois fait des tentatives de sevrage, NDLR]. I am a new man. I just have a muscle problem in my back, which forces me to sit regularly“, he confided to the Parisian a few weeks ago.
His new album promises to be magnificent: he has indeed decided to cover little-known songs by Georges Brassens, Georges Moustaki or even Yves Montand or Bourvil. The first extract, so the clip with Jean-Paul Rouve has been unveiled, is a cover in piano voice of a magnificent aria by Serge Reggiani, If you buy me a drinkwhich is about the loneliness of a man seeking company in a bar.
The singer, for whom the lyrics must be particularly resonant, will not, however, tour for this new opus, which follows the disc Kids and Kids First, released before confinement. On the other hand, a television program has just been shot for prime time on France 2, probably broadcast in early May, a few days before his 70th birthday and which will pay tribute to him with many guests.