Singer Chantal Goya has revealed the little-known story behind one of her greatest songs. A title that has become cult and which she owes in part to her children…
At 83, Chantal Goya still has a thousand stories to tell. In a flash interview given to France 3 Hauts-de-France, she lifted the veil on the birth of one of her most legendary hits, A rabbit. A committed song that has left its mark on several generations of French people.
Chantal Goya reveals the secret behind her cult song: “Thanks to my children who…“
The singer Chantal Goya has a horror of hunting and that this song made it possible to denounce this practice: “It breaks the chase” she told our colleagues from France 3. The octogenarian then explained that her emblematic song A rabbit was, in its way, a plea against hunting. “I still had the first ecological song that existed in France“, she underlined, before singing a few words of this hit which has become cult.
Behind this song, which sold more than 400,000 copies upon its release, lies a family story. Chantal Goya revealed that her two children, Paul and Clarisse, born from her love with Jean-Jacques Debout, had allowed the creation of this piece. “Thanks to my children who got tired of the hunters around the house in the country and told them: ‘If rabbits had carabiners, they would shoot you, and my father will make a song'”, told the artist of young and old.
Chantal Goya, this other practice that she hates: “I’m very suspicious of them…“
The radiant artist, who has shared her life with the lyricist Jean-Jacques Debout for more than 60 years, does not only hate hunting. Chantal Goya also admitted that she did not particularly appreciate, to a lesser extent, being photographed. “I don’t really like being photographed“, revealed the one who still loves to travel the roads of France and Belgium to sing her successes.
The interpreter of Pandi Panda also confided that she now preferred to keep a distance from photographers, a way for her to protect herself. “And at the same time, I am very wary of them today“, she admitted. Perhaps a caution born from the numerous paparazzi experienced during the high points of her career?
