INTERVIEW
Francis Lalanne and his record company, Universal Music, have decided to celebrate the career of the singer with a double album, 40 years of success , which includes the greatest titles of the singer, starting with The House of Happiness (1982). With Anne Roumanoff on Europe 1, the artist looks back on her years with the public. "For twenty years, I did 300 concerts a year," he recalls.
"I realized that the song was freedom"
"I have not seen the time pass," says Francis Lalanne at the microphone of Europe 1. After his first albums in the early 1980s, the singer continued his career, outing more than twenty studio albums. But from an early age - he started singing at age 13 - he knew that music would guide his life. "I realized that the song was freedom," he recalls, thinking back to his teenage years.
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It is freedom that led Francis Lalanne to music. "With my guitar, I could sit at the corner of the street and put on my show, very quickly it became a way of being free and expressing myself freely," says On's interpreter. . A freedom that he continues to cultivate today. In recent years, the artist has also become a political figure, supporting in particular the movement of "yellow vests".