INTERVIEW
Her new album was due out on Friday March 20, but was eventually postponed to June 5 due to the crisis linked to the Covid-19 epidemic. Fans of Thomas Dutronc will have to wait more than two months before discovering the 14 tracks of Frenchy , a very jazzy opus, made up of covers of cult songs from the history of the song, like My Way or La Vie en Rose .
Above all, this album sees a string of stars alongside the son of François Hardy and Jacques Dutronc, including Iggy Pop, Diana Krall and Billy Gibbons. How did he convince these song monuments to join their voices to his? "It was the complex part, it is done by relationship," said the singer at the microphone of Matthieu Noël, in The wild equipment on Europe 1. "When we contact the managers, the requests go to the hatch. have a special bond, "he explains.
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"Small miracles"
Thus, for actor Jeff Goldblum, who sings with him the English version of La Belle Vie by Sacha Distel, "it was done because I had met him at Michel Drucker's."
"For the singer of ZZ Top (Billy Gibbons, editor's note ), we offered him, he listened. His wife was a dancer in Paris being young, she said to him: 'It reminds me of Paris, it's great!' ", says Thomas Dutronc, who speaks of these meetings as" little miracles ".