Alexis Patri 4:00 p.m., February 13, 2022
The singer, lyricist and actor Marc Lavoine talks about himself on Sunday on Europe 1, in Didier Barbelivien's show "Tell me what you sing".
The opportunity for the artist to return in particular to the way in which he was educated and his relationship to the norm.
A concept to which he never felt he belonged.
INTERVIEW
Two weeks ago, Lisa-Marie Marques revealed on Europe 1 that Marc Lavoine's parents would have called him Brigitte if he had been a girl.
But the singer, lyricist and actor had not said everything.
Guest Sunday of the show Didier Barbelivien
Tell me what you sing
, the singer reveals that his mother did indeed call him "Brigitte" for several years.
A coquetry which, according to Marc Lavoine, participated in building a distant and critical relationship with him in the face of social norms.
>> Find Didier Barbelivien's shows every Sunday from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Europe 1 as well as in podcast and replay here
Bouncing on the poetry of the song
I was an angel
by Michel Delpech, which he chose to go on the air, the juror of
The Voice
explains: "I was never in the right box, I always been a little off the mark. And that suits me very well, because I can sing with Hevré Villard who is my friend, with Krisy who is a friend who does rap, and with Catherine Ringer. I like this freedom."
"More of us want to live with all those we reject"
For Marc Lavoine, his freedom comes from his education.
"I am a girl: I was raised as a girl by my mother, who called me Brigitte and left me long hair. I had to show people my sex to prove to them that I was a boy!” laughs the singer.
"That's how I greeted my Hamid the first time he's been in France since Algeria: I took out my penis in Orly airport and said 'I'm a boy'."
"Everyone took me for a girl and I was raised with women, so I have a different approach to things", then considers the interpreter of
She has the eyes revolver
.
"And so I was a little mistreated by those who had the power to fit in the right box."
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His freedom and his difference, Marc Lavoine has indeed paid the price of rejection in his youth.
"I was called 'the fat', 'the chick' or 'the queer'. But all that is of no interest, too bad for them", he decides at the microphone of Europe 1 "What's important is those who come together around the same things. And there are more people on that side. More of us want to live with all those we reject, and without which one does not see the whole of life."