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He "believes in something, but is not practicing, not religious". Invited by Anne Roumanoff on Tuesday, the singer Gregoire returns on the musical Bernadette Lourdes which will be presented to the Marian city from July 1 to October 27, and he wrote the songs with his teams.
"When I was asked to put the songs of Bernadette into song, I said 'no' in principle," says the singer. "But out of curiosity I read her writings, and I found that very well, Bernadette does not impose anything, and I like that, that's why we wrote the show in a neutral way," he says. If religion is inseparable from Lourdes, Gregory has imposed a condition to work on this musical, not to sing the Virgin. "For me, the best solution was that we do not see it and we tell the story in a neutral way: we saw a girl kneel and tell something, that's all."
"Lourdes leaves no one indifferent, we are facing an extraordinary solidarity"
"Today, we talk about religions only through the bad side of things, and I find it nice to highlight people like Bernadette, Sainte-Thérèse, or mother Teresa who talks about everyday things and the fact 'be positive every day,' explains the interpreter of You + Me. If religion does not hold a fundamental place in his life, Gregory was still seduced by the atmosphere of the Marian city. "Lourdes leaves no one indifferent, we are faced with extraordinary solidarity, we see young people aged 16-17 who help completely disabled patients, who wear them," he says.
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"Lourdes is a very surprising city, it is the only one in the world where we leave with hope, it puts us in a state of mind that allows us to see things in a positive way".