Before becoming a popular singer, Michel Fugain had to do another job, much more serious and harder! His father had forced him but…
I won’t have time, A beautiful story, Do like the bird, Sing: As if you were to die tomorrow… Michel Fugain has been collecting hits since his singing debut in the 1960s. But it wasn’t a microphone that he was supposed to have in his hand, according to his father’s wishes…
Michel Fugain studied to please his father
On the airwaves of Europe 1, a few years ago, Michel Fugain retraced his career. The opportunity to look back on his youth. While he was not yet an adult, he began studying medicine. “Since I am the son of a doctor (his father was Pierre Fugain, an eminent diabetologist, (editor’s note)I had to become a doctor”he had said at the time. His father wanted to make him a great neurosurgeon. “I gave up very quickly (…) at the end of the first year. For various reasons, notably because I had my sister in front of me, who had become a little scholar, who worked like crazy, and I said to myself: ‘I’ll never get there.'”
Michel Fugain adds: “I went until I came of age, I waited until I was 21, I wrote a letter to my dad because I didn’t want to go through the clash I imagined. He finally understood but he wasn’t convinced (…) He always went my way.” At 82 years old, and with the career we know he has had, he was right to change careers!
Michel Fugain, a poor student?
Asked about his memories of this period of forced study, Michel Fugain did not mince his words: “I have terrible memories of it!”. And the creator of the Big Bazar goes into even more detail: “I waited until I was 21. In fact, my father had cheated me (…) he told me: ‘You’ll see when you’re at university, it’s another thing, it’s another behavior’. I went through it and I found the same people who behaved in the same way and I said: ‘No, I couldn’t.'”
“Student was not my thing, I was frolicking in the amateur cinema world. I had the impression that all this was much freer”finally dropped the one who tried his hand at cinema before finding success in music and writing for the greatest. At the age of 20, he was even the first assistant to Yves Robert, the director to whom we owe in particular The War of the Buttons or even An elephant is very deceptive. No regrets then.