Christophe is dead. The singer, dandy shifted from the French song, died Thursday at 74 years of age following a lung disease, according to his family. "Christophe left (yesterday, Thursday, editor's note). Despite the unfailing dedication of the medical teams, his forces abandoned him. Today, the words are falling apart ... and all the long speeches are indeed futile" , wrote in a press release sent to AFP Véronique Bevilacqua, wife of the singer, and her daughter Lucie.
Death "from emphysema"
Daniel Bevilacqua, his real name, had been hospitalized and admitted to intensive care on March 26 in a Paris hospital because of "respiratory failure", according to his show producer, Laurent Castanié. On April 10, Véronique Bevilacqua indicated that he was "hospitalized in intensive care in Brest (...) intubated under deep sedation".
Véronique Bevilacqua never mentioned a coronavirus in her press releases, and, when interviewed by telephone by AFP during the night of Thursday to Friday, she stressed that he died "as a result of emphysema", a disease pulmonary.
"More than ever the blue words"
The announcement of his death upset the entertainment world. Jean-Michel Jarre, who had written the texts for two of his major albums - and their flagship songs - "Les Paradis Perdus", 1973 and "Les Mots bleus", 1974, told AFP that he had "lost a member "of his" tribe ".
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"He was more than a singer, he was a couturier of the song", develops Jean-Michel Jarre, for whom the circumstances of this mourning are very painful: "We cannot say goodbye to him because of this damn virus. "
"With the disappearance of Christophe, the French song loses a part of its soul, but the bittersweet blue of its songs is indelible", tweeted the Minister of Culture, Franck Riester.