INTERVIEW
This is a surprising revelation. On the show Ça fait du bien, presented by Anne-Roumanoff, Michèle Torr spoke about her meeting, as a teenager, with the impresario Johnny Stark.
They met in 1962, in Avignon, where Michèle Torr took part in a competition. She won, that year, the first prize in front of another Provencal singer: Mireille Mathieu. The singer of the famous tube Take Me to Dancing Tonight , Johnny Stark meets for the first time on this occasion. The latter is then 40 years old. She's 14. And he's going to see a lot of potential in her.
A meeting at 14 years old
"That night in 1962, he did not see Mireille Mathieu and he saw me," loose Michèle Torr, causing the surprise on the set of It feels good . She goes on to add that she had a relationship "before and during Mireille Mathieu", that is, at the very moment when Johnny Stark was managing the star's career. From then on, the relationship between the two women and with Johnny Stark deteriorated.
"I was 14 years old and I had been summoned to his office to sign a contract, he wanted to make me an international star, to do cinema, song and an international tour", remembers the singer two gold discs. "He was going to settle in a very chic neighborhood in Paris, give me 1,000 francs a month and make me what he did with Mireille afterwards."
Faced with such pomp, Michele Torr felt amazed, unlike his family, rather "modest" and suspicious. The 1,000 francs a month, the driver, the dressmakers ... "My mother was scared so I did not sign the Johnny Stark contract," she explains.
"He put me in the wheel"
This refusal then caused a deterioration of his links with the impresario: "He put me in the wheel, I was fired some emissions."