This Sunday, February 11, as he celebrates his 81st birthday, Serge Lama will be Michel Drucker’s guest on his show Looking forward to Sunday, broadcast on France 3 from 1:30 p.m., in which he will announce big news: his retirement… In 2023, the singer celebrated his sixty years of career. For the occasion, a documentary was made by Mireille Dumasbaptized Serge Lama, life crazy. The 81-year-old singer was uncompromising about his musical successes, but also spoke of loveespecially women, which he sang throughout his career. During his life, Serge Lama had three great loves : Liliane Benelli, Michèle Potier and Luana Santonino.
At the start of his career, the singer of the title Woman, Woman, Woman was in a relationship with Liliane Benelli, a pianist who notably collaborated with Barbara. But, their love story will take a tragic turn. The young woman died on August 12, 1965 in a car accident. Present in the vehicle, Serge Lama learned of the death of Liliane Benelli in her hospital bed, a month and a half after the events. Still today, the singer feels guilty and never forgot his first love: “I felt responsible, because it was I who had insisted that she be the pianist in the program with Marcel Amont. If I hadn’t insisted, she might not have come with me in the car.”he said in October 2021 on the set of Roll on Sunday.
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Serge Lama was married twice
Subsequently, Serge Lama was in a relationship with Michèle Potier for a long time. Although they were initially lovers, their romantic relationship was finally made official in 1971. “I met Michèle in 1969, in Chamonix, through a friend. My crush on her was immediate.although she was as discreet and shy as I was exuberant myself at the time”the artist told Paris Match. Together, they had a child, Frédéric, in 1981, then married in 1991. During these years as a couple, Serge Lama was unfaithful on several occasions. “We had established a modus vivendi with Michèle. I regret having probably made him sad“he confessed to Telestar in December 2022. Michèle Potier died of a stroke at the age of 71 in 2016.
Serge Lama is now in a relationship with Luana Santonino. This woman, who is 35 years younger than the singer, was first his assistant before starting a love story with him. This romance began during his marriage to Michèle Potier, and came to fruition in front of the mayor, on February 11, 2022. “I’ve been with Luana for almost twenty years and I said to myself: ‘I don’t know when I’m going to leave… Can I leave this woman like that? Without giving her my name? No, it was not possible. Luana Santonino should have been called Lama“confided Serge Lama to Paris Match in 2021.
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