At 80, Michel Polnareff feels more American than French, he who lives for a long time in California? Back with a new album, he took stock of his life for “Le Parisien”.
Singer Michel Polnareff is back in music with a new album entitled A time for them. A musical project in which he believes a lot after, as he says himself, “the debacle“From his previous opus, Finally ! Passing through Paris, he gave a long interview to Parisian. The opportunity to lift the veil on the man he has since become an octogenarian.
Michel Polnareff still a rebel?
With daily journalists as well as a handful of readers, Michel Polnareff has escaped any questions: French politics, the election of Donald Trump, his health … has the question: “Do you still feel rebellious today?“, the interpreter of the tubes We will all go to paradise,, Letter to France or Holidays replied with his legendary franchise. “”The rebel knew a little anyway, but yes, I always have this … I have always been surrounded by people who were not straight like me and that is absolutely no problem“Said Polnareff.
The singer, whose poster of him the buttocks in the air in the 1970s played a lot in his image of rebel, obviously appeared with age. Michel Polnareff, who did not hesitate to title his autobiography Sperm (published in 2016), lives in a beautiful villa in Palm Springs, California. Here he leads an almost quiet life … “Either I do nothing, or I do a lot, or I train a lot, but not at the moment. When I’m recording, I spend my time in the studio, but since I don’t have a convertible studio, I like to be by the pool“, He said. Michel Polnareff also claims to see his son Louka (14), whose mother is her ex-partner, Danyellah.
Michel Polnareff ready to come back to live in France?
The artist, who says to himself “completely apolitical“, moved to the United States in the 1970s and found refuge in a house in Palm Springs for more than two decades. Now, Michel Polnareff has dual nationality.”But I am obviously of French culture. I am a Frenchman who settled in the United States“He wants to specify in the newspaper.
However, would Michel Polnareff be ready to end his days in France? “”I come quite often, incognito. But definitely, I don’t think. I like California, I like the sun. I have a little trouble with the climate here“, Assumes the singer. In addition, the one who is nicknamed the admiral by his fans finds another big difference between our country and that where he lives:”I love the United States, I always loved them and I will always like them. I like people’s empathy, they are kind, very welcoming. “
