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The night has closed on Christophe

He shouted “Aline” for “that she returns”, loved the night life, the game and the fast cars: Christophe, dandy shifted from the French song, died Thursday at 74 years of the continuations of a pulmonary disease, according to his family.

“Christophe left (yesterday, Thursday, editor’s note). Despite the unfailing dedication of the medical teams, his forces abandoned him. Today, the words are falling apart … and all the long speeches are indeed futile” , wrote in a press release sent to AFP Véronique Bevilacqua, wife of the singer, and her daughter Lucie.

Daniel Bevilacqua, his real name, had been hospitalized and admitted to intensive care on March 26 in a Paris hospital because of “respiratory failure”, according to his show producer, Laurent Castanié. On April 10, Véronique Bevilacqua told AFP that he was “hospitalized in intensive care in Brest (…) intubated under deep sedation”.

Ms. Bevilacqua never mentioned Covid-19 in her press releases, and, when interviewed by telephone by AFP on the night of Thursday to Friday, she stressed that he died “as a result of emphysema “, a lung disease.

“More than ever the blue words”

Christophe had known success from “Aline”, an instant hit in 1965. He then continued to walk his dandy figure offbeat in French song. In December 2019, the artist summed up his career as follows: “I know my ups and downs, I had beautiful downs”.

The announcement of his death upset the entertainment world. Jean-Michel Jarre, who had written the texts for two of his major albums – and their flagship songs – “Les Paradis Perdus”, 1973 and “Les Mots bleus”, 1974, told AFP that he had “lost a member “of his” tribe “.

“He was more than a singer, he was a couturier of the song”, develops Jean-Michel Jarre, for whom the circumstances of this mourning are very painful: “We cannot say goodbye to him because of this damn virus. “

“With the disappearance of Christophe, the French song loses a part of its soul, but the bittersweet blue of its songs is indelible”, tweeted the Minister of Culture, Franck Riester.

“The last of the Bevilacquas left to join the lost paradises. Thank you for this unforgettable journey,” wrote Pascal Nègre, ex-CEO of Universal Music France, on Facebook, referring to two songs by Christophe.


ats, dpa

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