ANNE ROUMANOFF, THAT'S GOOD
It is with emotion and the knotted throat that Hugues Aufray evokes his brother at Anne Roumanoff, Europe 1 Monday. His eldest of several years committed suicide at the age of 27, in 1955. Still today, his memory haunts the author of Santiano .
"I believe in the powers of the spirit"
He often repeated it in an interview. Hugues Aufray was not predestined for a singing career. It was rather sculpture that interested him. "I made the career that my brother should have done," he says at the microphone of Europe 1, referring to the fact that his older brother, who committed suicide, was an opera singer at the time. time. "With the brilliant voice he had, he would have been an international star and he left us voluntarily at 27, it was a tragedy," said Hugues Aufray.
The singer also believes that, in a way, the death of his brother led him to the path of the song. "I believe in the powers of the spirit," says Hugues Aufray. "I became a singer in his place, quite simply," he concludes.