Provocative assumed, Brigitte Fontaine does not hesitate to shake up the codes even if it means appearing delusional and “crazy”. A famous singer, who knows her well, wanted to defend the 86 -year -old artist, often criticized …
Free and unclassifiable icon, Brigitte Fontaine crosses decades without ever worrying about fashions or criticism. For over 60 years, she has explored song, theater, poetry with audacity. However, she was considered marginal, even mocked, many times during her career. If his personality and texts can surprise more than one, some appreciate it at its fair value, like this famous singer who spoke a few months ago in The world To defend it …
Brigitte Fontaine, defended by her friend Etienne Daho: “Many believe her crazy …”
Between Brigitte Fontaine and Etienne Daho, it is a friendship that has been going on for several decades. The interpreter of Like a boomerang collaborated with the singer for her album Virgin In 1995 and the latter also wrote several songs for him. “”I have with her a very tender, very sweet relationship of trust“said the 69 -year -old singer.
He also wanted to defend her in the face of the mockery which she is sometimes the subject because of her Haute-en-Couleur personality, her raw words and her freedom of tone. “”Many people are afraid of herself or believe her crazy. But when we work with her, Brigitte is very present, she really masters the story “he said.
Etienne Daho, “pissed off” and “saddened” for Brigitte Fontaine
The 86 -year -old star, who sang in particular “I am old and I enclose you*“In his title Prohibitionnever has a tongue in his pocket, sometimes to her depending ones. “Sometimes, often by discomfort, she does provocation, sometimes very funny, sometimes very embarrassing. It attracts people in the media for bad reasons, they say to themselves: ‘It’s going to be a great time of TV, she will do anything!’.“, regretted Etienne Daho who also praised his talent:”She is an exceptional artist, she has genius, she is a Gainsbourg. It is at the same level, higher even in terms of writing“.
Etienne Daho appreciates Brigitte Fontaine in particular for her integrity: “She has never made the choice of money, which is still quite rare! She chose to follow her path, which may seem disjointed – of song, theater, writing“.
