Paris (AFP)
Dani is back with the elegant "Horizons Dorés", an album cut out for upcoming concerts between guitar-voice formula and homage to female figures.
The title track resonates with crazy topicality with the health context.
"When will the golden horizons (...) when the skin against the skin (I) have known the best deferred, I have never given up".
"We finished this song at the end of December and we had no idea what was going to happen," the singer told AFP, happy with her "hopeful" tone.
"Des better deferred" also fits perfectly into its existence, where better days have followed the traps of the night.
As when, shunned by record companies - because of a "sulphurous past", that of artificial paradises - Etienne Daho said to him: "If you want to get out of it, you have to sing again".
"I told him + are you sick or what? +".
They will both sing "Like A Boomerang".
A title composed for her by Serge Gainsbourg but failed for Eurovision and forgotten.
It will be the comeback song in 2001.
Since then, she has regained the status of an icon, which embarrasses her.
"There is a frozen side as I feel like I'm in motion," she smiles.
Soon to be 76, she prefers to talk about an "atypical career" - model, singer, actress, magazine leader, florist ...
- "Real thickness" -
"She is a real character, she has a real thickness, with her no afféterie, she does not play a role, there is a real desire to sculpt an artist's trajectory", tells AFP Bertrand Dicale , specialist in French song.
Even if, as she says in her voice with delicate asperities, "it is not always easy to take paths like the others".
"It's very chaotic, but with great encounters".
For this album (which comes out Friday at Washi Washa / Warner), there is one that counted, with Emilie Marsh.
Dani and this guitarist got along "like a no-brainer" on the last tours.
"It's almost a duo".
The album cover, signed Jean-Baptiste Mondino, illustrates the importance of this guitarist, since Dani wears a jewel-plectrum placed on one eye, pirate style.
Emilie Marsh polished the new creations and revisited old Dani songs, like "N Comme Never Again", originally set with the Stranglers.
The story of this title could have been called a funny place to meet.
- Eiffel Tower, April 1 -
"Bryan Ferry couldn't do it with me but told me his friend Jean-Jacques Burnel from the Stranglers, who made an appointment with me on April 1 at the foot of the Eiffel Tower. + Is it a joke? + . But, no, he was there ".
“And for ten years, moreover, every time he came to Paris, we met there, she laughs. Then I went to Cambridge, they were very happy to accompany a French singer far from them, these punk-intellectuals whom I like very much, who had so many repercussions in fashion, in music ".
JoeyStarr, him, beyond a duet on the album ("Kesta Kesta"), also inspired the future show a little (from October, Bataclan on December 10, ideal cabaret formula for reduced gauges facing the Covid-19).
Pierre Grillet, Dani's collaborator-accomplice, thus worked with the pillar of NTM on his speech shows at the National Assembly.
"There were lots of kids who were seduced, I told myself that I could read texts from or about women who challenged me".
Alongside the songs of "Horizons Dorés" there will therefore be readings and evocations by Anaïs Nin, George Sand, Rosa Parks, Marilyn Monroe, Simone Veil, Virginie Despentes and Françoise Sagan.
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