This Tuesday, July 12, 2022, Corynne Charby blows out her 62nd candle. The opportunity to return to the journey of the one whose musical career was as brief as it was intense and who decided to flee the spotlight.
long brown hair, azure gaze and fine face, Corynne Charby begins her career as a model and made the cover of major magazines like Elle. The one who celebrates her 62nd birthday this Tuesday, July 12, 2022 continues her ascent by dropping out in the early 1980s an important role in the film “La Chèvre” alongside Gérard Depardieu and Pierre Richard. Deviating from the seventh art, the young woman then goes turn to music, becoming the protege of big names like Didier Barbelivien and Christophe. The latter then composes for her the pipe pinball whose words have marked multiple generations: “And I live like a rolling pinball. With the ears of the heart in a ball.”
Riding on the wave of successCorynne Charby decides to release a new title: Heads or tails. If his first album is a great success, the second is a business failure. The talented singer then decides to give up on her career in music and leaves exile across the Atlantic, in the United States, to follow the adventures of her husband, Luigi Calabrese, CEO of the Warner record company. For twenty years, radio silence, the bubbly brunette stays away from the spotlight. She then decides to settle in the City of Angels with her new husband and returns to her first love by writing songs, but also by dabbling in painting.
Corynne Charby: “I want to refocus on myself”
In an interview with Télé star, Corynne Charby expressed on his absence : “I raised my children and took care of others. But now I want to focus on me. I reconnect with my artistic fiber by writing, especially song lyrics that I don’t necessarily plan to interpret, and by painting.” And to add: “I would like to spend two or three months in Paris to reconnect with the music world and move forward in my thinking. I am open to proposals in the cinema too.”