Hanging out with Ray Charles or Jimi Hendrix is already something new, but sharing several meals with them, or even serving as a tourist guide, is another.
Not for the singer Nicoletta, if we are to believe the secrets she tells with humor in Laurent Mariotte's show, "La Table des bons vivant".
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La Table des bons vivant
, singer Nicoletta returned to the intimate moments that she had the chance to share in the past with some American singers.
And not the least, like Ray Charles and Jimi Hendrix.
One thing is certain, the singer of the song
Mamy Blue
has had a much more rock'n'roll life than it seems.
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Food for the soul
Ray Charles and Nicoletta, it is above all an artistic meeting in 1967, since the giant of black American music sees in her a "black" diva à la Française.
The man fell in love with the singer and her world, to the point of interpreting her famous hit "Il est mort le soleil".
They also shared a friendship until the singer's death.
So many years spent rubbing shoulders with each other inevitably creating memories that Nicoletta agreed to share.
"Every time he [Ray Charles] came to Paris, we had breakfasts at the Hilton hotel," said the singer.
"We would eat a lot after his concerts in Paris, and we would go to a famous restaurant which is no longer there today. All the American jazz musicians who arrived in our beautiful Paris would eat there and we ate black peas. , sweet potato or even cheesecake. "
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Jimi Hendrix and the onion soup
Another big star that Nicoletta knew, Jimi Hendrix.
With the latter, she notably took on the role of culinary guide to the point of making him discover what would become one of her favorite French dishes: onion soup.
"We went to the Halles de Paris night before around 5-6 a.m. and I took Jimi Hendrix to taste the onion soup he didn't know. He loved it."
Another place that the singer was fond of, the rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau where Nicoletta lived: "Downstairs from my house, there was a street with many butchers drinking coffee with their white coats full of meat blood, Jimi found this incredible scene of life. "