Jane Birkin unveils "Oh! Pardon tu sleeping…", an album co-written with Etienne Daho.

In this record, the song "Cigarettes" evokes for the first time since his death 7 years ago his eldest daughter, photographer Kate Barry.

The singer evokes in "Music!"

how was born this title, which is not the only one of the album to evoke his first child.

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Jane Birkin's new album, 

Oh!

Pardon tu sleeping ...

is the adaptation of his eponymous film released in 1992. But not only.

The singer slipped other intimate themes into this album co-written with Etienne Daho.

She talks for the first time about her daughter Kate Barry, a photographer who died in 2013.

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, Jane Birkin modestly recounts why she now wrote songs about this episode in her life.

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The song that speaks of Kate Barry in the most obvious way is 

Cigarettes

.

Jane Birkin wrote the text, which came to her because of a detail, like a flash.

“There is always an unexpected trigger,” she explains.

"I saw a small nail manicure kit in a pharmacy in Lyon. Suddenly, I remembered her alabaster feet, how she looked after them. She had the prettiest feet in the world. . "

Jane Birkin then runs to her hotel room and writes the text of this song on the back of her diary.

It was in 2017, during the tour of "Gainsbourg symphonique".

"Etienne Daho knew how to put those words to music"

But the singer reveals that two other tracks from her latest album are about her first child.

This is the case of 

These thick walls

, which evokes a cemetery.

"If you stay there too long, the imagination kicks in. So I act like a thief: I put the flowers, and then I leave," she explains.

A feeling that Etienne Daho immediately understood, with whom Jane Birkin co-wrote and co-composed this album.

"Etienne knew how to put those words on unexpected music. A bit like Kurt Weill's German musicals," she compares.

"It's so surprising. It might have been the only way to do it."

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After clarifying that the title 

Catch me if you can 

also evokes Kate Barry, the singer explains that it was time for her to approach her death in music.

"It's been seven years since I spoke about her," she recalls.

She compares these three songs to those she was able to do on "sometimes stormy" love stories.

For her "it's still nothing at all, compared to the death of my daughter and this feeling that you are forever missing pieces of yourself".

"I was lucky to have had a rab from Kate"

Yet Jane Birkin seems to be holding up in the face of this tragedy.

She is happy to have more children and console herself for losing her daughter when she was 47 years old.

"My brother lost his son at age 19. I feel lucky to have known Kate longer, to have seen not only her photos but also the center she created for narcotics and alcoholics," she explains, before remembering how funny her daughter was.

"I was still very lucky to have had the rab '", she adds.

Jane Birkin thinks especially of the grief of the other members of her family, her daughters Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon, and her grandson Roman de Kermadec, the son of Kate Berry.

"We are just very grateful to the friends who were able to be there and treat us with such delicacy," she concludes.

"This is crazy luck."