Jacques Brel was visibly better man than father. Guest on the set of It starts today this Monday, December 18, France Brelwho is none other than one of the three daughters of the famous Belgian singer, revealed that the latter was not not very comfortable in his role as a father. “What kind of father was he?“, asked Faustine Bollaert. “So, we just talked about a human being who is a man, but As far as fatherhood is concerned, we’re moving into another universe, that didn’t interest him at all!“, admitted the director of the Brel Foundation, specifying that this role was “heavy” to wear. “What was heavy?“, added the host of France 2. “The fact of telling himself that he had children. His way, when he was younger, of saying to himself ‘what am I going to do on this planet?’ It’s saying to yourself ‘I definitely don’t want to grow old and I definitely don’t want to become an adult’, fatherhood being part of this happy broth, so he was very uncomfortable with that.“
In order to not to suffer from this situationFrance Brel ended up finding a solution: “It’s from not consider your father as your father“, she confided in the daily France 2 show. And added: “It’s saying to yourself ‘my father is what he is, but if I expect him to be a father, I will never have anything.’ So how can we get something from him? Look at him differently and unload him from this backpack of fatherhood“, detailed the sister of Chantal and Isabelle, who specifies that the singer “was not interested” to his three daughters.
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Petty Jacques Brel: these nicknames he gave to his three daughters
In the work Jacques Brel, a life, reissued in May 2022, Olivier Todd has combed through the smallest details of the existence of the Belgian singer who died in 1978 in Bobigny. And even his most intimate moments of life, like his relationship with his three daughters, born from his union with his wife Thérèse Michielsen. Like their mother before them, called “Miche” by the singer, all three were given funny nicknames invented by their father.
“Chantal lives in the present, wears makeup, wants to appear very feminine“, writes the biographer about the couple’s first daughter, who died in 1999. “Talkative, extroverted, she is in search of her inner life, she will be the Ostrich.“France will be nicknamed Breakwater. A nickname categorically rejected by the singer’s daughter. The latter will then choose Guitar because'”it takes the form we want to give it“, describes the author. Finally, Isabelle will be called Cloud by the interpreter ofAmsterdam. For what ? According to Olivier Todd, “her younger sister always seems to be on top of situations.”
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