Guest of "Icons" on Europe 1, Véronique Sanson explains why still calls her mother on the phone, when the latter died on September 1, 2006. A peculiarity of which she made a song.
The artist also returns to one of his other titles, "Vols d'Horizons", which pays tribute to another of his icons: Simone Veil.
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She may have been missing for over 14 years, but Véronique Sanson still calls her mother, "the icon of her life", on the phone.
Guest of "Icons" at the microphone of Michel Denisot on Europe 1, the singer-songwriter looks back on the relationship she had with Colette, "her model, the extraordinary image of an extraordinary woman".
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"I'm still calling her, although she won't answer me"
"It is true that I still call her, although she does not answer me", slips the 71-year-old artist with a smile.
Phone calls she makes especially in the moments when she "doesn't know something": "I pick up my phone, I call her and I say to myself 'ah no flute! She's dead".
A peculiarity testifying to the strength of the relationship between the two women that Véronique Sanson fully assumes, since she even made a song of it.
Ten years after the disappearance of her mother, on September 1, 2006, the singer had unveiled in the preamble of her 16th studio album "Digne, dingues, therefore ..." a title entitled "And I call her still".
A melancholy song in the form of a tribute in which one can notably hear "I thought I could not do it / Without having called my mother / First / And I still call her".
Véronique Sanson takes the opportunity to share an anecdote with her mother.
"She told me that after her death she would come every night to tickle my toes. But I was very disappointed because she never did," she explains in a laugh burst.
"Flights of Horizons", a title in tribute to Simone Veil's action
But the artist's mother is not the only one to have been the subject of a tribute in song.
Still in the album "Digne, dingues, therefore ...", the song "Vols d'Horizons" evokes the female condition and more particularly excision.
But this title also indirectly evokes one of the icons of the singer: Simone Veil, who died on June 30, 2017. “I really wanted to pay tribute to her, because she has done so much for women. She spoke a lot about stuff, including excision. "
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