Singer and composer Louis Chedid, father of Matthieu Chedid dit M, tells Anne Roumanoff's microphone how his parents, who never wanted to make him an artist, we despite themselves pushed in this direction.
A double influence, made up of little coincidences that he only identified years later.
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Her parents urged her older sister to make music.
But it is he who has become one of the most famous authors, composers and performers of French song.
Guest of Anne Roumanoff on Tuesday, Louis Chedid looks back on the crucial role played by his parents in spite of themselves in his choice of career.
The son of author and poet Andrée Chedid and Louis Selim Chedid, now 72 years old, released shortly before confinement his new album
Everything we want in life,
his first for 7 years.
He will present this 23rd disc on tour throughout France from September 25 and November 12 at the Olympia in Paris.
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Although his mother belonged to the artistic milieu and was a recognized poet, the young Louis Chedid was never pushed in this direction.
"My sister was taking piano lessons and she had come across a terrible teacher who was stabbing her on the fingers," recalls the singer.
"Since she's older than me, they were like 'We won't do this to the little one. And I think if I had taken piano lessons with this woman I would never have made music."
A guitar abandoned in the cellar
It was finally the chance encounter with a guitar abandoned by his father that brought Louis Chedid to music.
"I was 11-12 years old, I had gone down to the cellar for something else, I don't know what. And I saw this guitar hanging over a cupboard that had only three strings instead of six, "says the musician.
"I put the guitar back up and started playing a string very poorly
. No games.
What I liked was opening the mirror cabinet in my room and looking at myself in the mirror on the train to play. I thought it was beautiful to watch. "
A love was born, even if the composer initially oriented towards a film faculty.
It will take the advent of Serge Gainsbourg for him to project himself into a career in French song, with the success that we know today.
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A warm artist's life in bed
Her mother, the famous author Andrée Chedid, also played an incongruous role.
"It was important when I was very young, when I went to school and I really didn't like it," reveals Louis Chedid.
“I had to get up early, but I saw her get up, have her coffee and go back to bed with her typewriter to type her texts. I was like 'But what is this great job? what I want to do when I grow up! '
It gave me a tremendous sense of freedom. Thanks to my mother and her morning ritual, I became an artist. "
Louis Chédid seems to have reproduced this involuntary mechanism with his four children.
"I did absolutely nothing for them to do artistic professions. I would have disgusted them if I had pushed them there", explains the one whose three children are singers (under the stage names of M, Nach and Selim) and whose eldest daughter, Émilie, works in the cinema.