Renaud is not afraid to embark on all sorts of adventures! But when he tried this new activity, he simply “made his daughter Lolita throw up”…
Renaud has lived a thousand lives. The singer has released dozens of albums, starred in several films, written columns for Charlie Hebdo in the 90s and even children’s stories. But the artist, who appreciates challenges and novelty, one day tried an activity that provoked a strange reaction in his daughter Lolita…
Renaud: his activity which “made his daughter vomit”
Renaud is not planning to retire anytime soon! While he still has about twenty tour dates left until December, the 72-year-old singer, who is preparing a new album for next year despite his speech difficulties, is the star of an exhibition taking place at the town hall of the 13th arrondissement of Paris until September 14. He asked visual artist Ernest Pignon-Ernest to bring together twenty paintings by different painters, each illustrating one of his songs.
But did you know that the interpreter of Still standing had himself tried his hand at painting? A comic book fan, he was “initiated“to contemporary art by the director Claude Berri, who had taken him to visit museums… to the great dismay of his daughter Lolita, now 44 years old and born from his former union with Dominique Quilichini.”I started painting, I did some still lifes, I sold some, but well, when my daughter saw them, it made her throw up.“, confided the man who married young Cerise last May, to Parisian. Enough to make him lose the desire to continue…
Renaud, deprived of his son? “His mother is very possessive”
His son Malone, 18, the fruit of his former love with Romane Serda, has inherited his artistic fiber. The singer recognizes himself a lot in his son, according to his confidences to Gala: “Especially in the fact that he makes pottery, like I did, and like I want to do again.“.
But the interpreter of Mistral winner does not see his offspring as much as he would like.”I would like to have more exchanges with him but unfortunately I don’t have much contact because his mother is very possessive. I don’t say this gratuitously, but simply because it is the sad reality” he confided.