Although he lives in his native land, Quebec, Garou nonetheless remains a great lover of France, of which he knows many nooks and crannies. He confided that he discovered Corsica thanks to the house of a great name in French song….
While he has just returned to the tour with his Solo Tour, Garou made a detour into the premises of our colleagues from Here. Asked about his attachment to France, the 53-year-old Quebecer declared his love for Corsica… And for one house in particular.
Garou took a vacation in a singer’s house: “This is one of the only times in my life…”
The 53-year-old artist looked back on the memorable memory he has of one of his first encounters with the Isle of Beauty. “The Isle of Beauty lives up to its name. I’ve been there a few times, but I have one lasting memory. I took my parents on a little tour of France, and we landed in Corsica”Garou first said. He spent his stay in a beautiful house, and not just any house: “I rented the house of the late Gilbert Bécaud and it was completely magical”.
“It’s one of the only times in my life where I saw a song. Usually we listen to a song, but here, I saw it. I got up at 5:30 in the morning, my parents were still sleeping, I stood on the balcony, I looked at the sun which was beginning to reveal the landscape to me”he then said.
The one who, in the city, is Pierre Garand, immediately thought of the song It’s Septemberby Gilbert Bécaud: “We had just arrived at this house, and I saw: ‘It’s September, when the sailboats are unveiled, and the beach…’ It felt strange to say to myself: ‘He wrote this song here’. It’s as if I was witnessing the landscape that had inspired him to write this fabulous song”.
Garou lives “in the middle of the forest” : where is his large property located?
Based in Sherbrooke, the Canadian city where he grew up, located 130 kilometers from Montreal, Garou decided to settle in the heart of nature, on a property nestled in the heart of the forest. Forest that he actually bought! Last December, the interpreter of Alone revealed to Parisian Weekend to have “purchased a plot of land of 60 hectares (…)”. “I have two houses there, five minutes from each other. I named the first ‘Notre-Dame de Paris’, after having bought it with the money earned from this musical! It is located on the edge of a lake”he added.
His second home is located “in the middle of the forest”a place where the father of Émelie, his only daughter, born from his story with the Swedish model Ulrika, likes to recharge his batteries. “My father always told me that it’s nature that makes you happiest. He was right”concluded the one that the whole of France discovered thanks to Notre-Dame-de-Paris.
