“In my opinion, she didn’t leave.” While he was a guest on the set of the show As an aside last November, Étienne Daho made it known that he still hadn’t gotten over Jane Birkin’s deathwhich occurred on July 16, 2023. Present on the airwaves of RTL this Wednesday, February 7, the person concerned wished pay a new tribute to the mother of Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon. After discussing his two nominations for the Victoires de la Musique 2024, the singer had a thought for her missing friend. “On stage, you recount the meetings of your career, notably that with Jane Birkin. In the reissue of the album, you slipped the remix of your duet with her, Oh sorry you were sleeping…” recalled Steven Bellery. “Jane Birkin has left us suddenly last July. Six months after her disappearance, does she still seem as real to you?“, the journalist then asked his guest.
“She’s thereYes“, confirmed Étienne Daho. “She made me do amazing things!“, he laughed. “For example, in the text, she makes me say: ‘you’re done annoying me.’ I don’t know how to say that. Afterwards, she made a clip on this song, where I had a bit of a bad role, I had to lock it in a suitcase. She said to me: ‘but press, press!’ I saw that I was hurting him, it was horrible“, recalled the singer, specifying that “it’s a lesson to have been by his side.”
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Étienne Daho and Jane Birkin: “She made me do incredible things. It was a lesson to be at her side.”
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Jane Birkin ill: “She never complained”, assures Étienne Daho
Jane Birkin’s life was marked by many health concerns. Étienne Daho, who spent a lot of time with Serge Gainsbourg’s ex, assures that she never complained. “She was someone whose health was not very good and she never complained. Sometimes we didn’t know if she was going to go on stage, but she never complained. She never said anything. She always got the victories every night“, assured the 68-year-old artist. And the latter emphasized: “It’s beautiful to have shared moments with someone like hershe’s a warrior!“
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