Guest of Anne Roumanoff's show, la Grande Sophie sings "A small fish, a small bird" (Juliette Gréco) and "Mon amant de St-Jean" (Lucienne Delyle), and explains how these titles accompanied her at important times in his life.
INTERVIEW
There are artists and songs that immediately take you back to key moments in your life.
In Anne Roumanoff's show, La Grande Sophie unveils in song two of the songs that have marked its history,
Un petit poisson, un petit oiseaux
by Juliette Gréco, and
Mon amant de St-Jean
, by Lucienne Delyle.
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Juliette Gréco, the end of an era
La Grande Sophie has fond memories of the day she opened for Juliette Gréco.
"I told myself that there were no more artists like her," she recalls.
The singer then decided to take regularly on stage one of the most famous titles of the icon of St-Germain-des-Prés:
A small fish, a small bird
.
"She is part of my top 5" she comments, before singing it on the air (see ideo illustration in this article).
The death of Juliette Gréco on September 23, therefore, particularly marked the Grande Sophie.
"Already I had the impression that we are living in a science fiction episode, when I learned of his disappearance, I said to myself: 'This is it, we are rocking, we are turning a page'." , she laments.
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The street song to go on vacation
Another title is emblematic of a period in the life of the Grande Sophie:
Mon amant de St-Jean
, first sung by Lucienne Delyle, often attributed in error to Edith Piaf, and repeated at will.
"I sang it a lot when I was doing the terraces in Marseille", explains the artist.
"I was a student at the Beaux-Arts, and to make some money I would land with my guitar on the beaches of Pointe-Rouge."
A habit that allowed her to raise enough money to go on vacation, and which she has fond memories of.
"It was a very family-friendly place, so
my lover from St-Jean
was very popular with grandmothers," she explains.
"The grandchildren were doing a farandole behind me and following me."
A third singer, she very much alive, has a privileged place in the life of the Grande Sophie.
This is François Hardy, for whom she wrote the song
Le large
.
"We like to tell each other what we are listening to at the moment for example. We do not have the same tastes at all," reveals the singer, who specifies that they exchange mainly by emails.