Friday, June 20, Renaud was the guest of Eric Jean-Jean in Bonus Track On RTL, on the occasion of its 50 years of songs. In this long interview, The singer returned to his glorious playthat he did not necessarily live well.
“I have a very difficult relationship with fame. (…) We can no longer go out in the street without being recognized, I can no longer do his peinard shopping without being asked for autographs“, He explained. According to him, the rocking was mainly made after having completed the Zenith in Paris in 1984. His first biggest concert, at 32, even if he had already met success for several years.
Renaud admits that he did not “really like” this facet of his career. “Because I like my quiet little life. I no longer belonged, I belonged to everyone“He says today.
A boat to “flee this world”
Before the Zenith, the interpreter of As soon as the wind is blowing had already tried to escape media coverage … by sea, by making a boat. “It was to flee this world. Find the oceans, freedom. I made it myself. I had the shell made, I got my hand a little for the interior fittings of the boat, all in wood, in pine “, he put back. This” adventure “on board the Maknovtchina lasted from September 1982 to March 1983, with his wife, Dominique, and their daughter, Lolita. The latter were “very sick” because Renaud did not know skipper and “learned about the heap” inspired by Antoine’s stories, the singer-navigator.
With celebrity, Renaud also had to learn to manage his fortune. “It was too much. I was not almost at all to receive as much money”estimates the artist, now 73 years old. “But I redistributed around me, especially to my family, and especially to associations that defend the youngest, the weakest, the most sick, the most deprived by life. I give more than in Unicef. It brings together all my fights a little,” said Renaud to RTL.
