Hervé Vilard still hides secrets at 79 years old. For example, do you know why the singer has chosen to change his name and first name, decades earlier? The reason will surprise you …
If Hervé Vilard had promised to never give an interview again, he gave a slight sprain to his own regulation last August. Contacted by our colleagues from The mountain During a concert in Vierzon, he agreed to return to his most difficult history and childhood. And he revealed why he had changed his name …
Hervé Vilard changed his name: What is his real first name?
Separated from his mother at the age of six-a neighbor who denounced her for alcoholism-, the young boy ended up at the Saint-Vincent-de-Paul orphanage in Paris, before being tossed from a foster family with foster family. He knew seven in total, especially in Berry where he spent much of his childhood. At the time, his name was still René Villard. But, very quickly, he wanted to erase his past by changing his name.
Result: he called himself Hervé Vilard, his family name having therefore lost a “L”, and his first name being a nod to his initials. A career decision also as explained The mountain since he chose to remove a “L” from his surname so that his name appears “In bigger posters”. And Hervé Vilard was obviously not mistaken since her titles Capri is finished,, We or Come back made him a star well outside the hexagon alone.
Hervé Vilard, lover of Berry: where does he live today?
Attached to Berry although he fled him at the age of sixteen to settle in Paris, Hervé Vilard has always paid tribute to his land of welcome. And more particularly to Father Angrand, a paternal figure for the one who has never known his father, who has him “learned to read”he has him “Taught catechism” and gave him “Lots of strength in life”.
Moreover, when the man of the church man, the one who is also a citizen of honor of the city of Capri bought the monastery of his village, the Celeste, to settle there full time. But in 2016, the winds pushed it again to the capital. He then sold the property to a family of seven children to settle down in the Latin district.