Dave recounts his father's outlook on his career, from misunderstanding to pride

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"My father was not in the trade".

It is with this modest formula that the singer Dave sums up the fears that his father had at first about the choice of his son, who had started studying law, to make a career in song.

A trajectory much easier to accept for her mother, herself an artist and classical dancer.

"She was just happy for me," the singer recalls.

But his father's fleeting misunderstanding has disappeared over the years to make him a big fan, very proud of his son, as Dave explains at the microphone of Anne Roumanoff.

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"He's my son, he's my son!"

The English teacher did not immediately understand his son's artistic desires.

But success, especially in France, helped him.

Dave remembers with a certain tenderness of his first Olympia, where his manager at the time came to look for him in his dressing room to warn him: "Your father stops everyone in front of the posters by saying 'This is my son, c 'is my son!' ".

"I find it cute," he explains today.

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Admiration despite boredom

The pride of Dave's father then continued throughout his son's career.

Even if it means expressing it too abundantly.

"He was going to hotels on purpose to say 'My son is Dave'."

"He had a bit of a big head, unlike me", jokes the singer by evoking this memory.

But this boundless admiration didn't stop Dave's dad from raving about all of these career choices.

As when he tried his hand at comedy and performed in a contemporary production by

 "I saw my father in the audience yawning. The poor man, he did not understand anything!", Explains the singer.

We imagine that the play in French should not be easy to follow for a Dutch English teacher.