Serge Lama is not the real name of the singer! He chose his stage name in a rather improbable way he revealed at the radio microphone here …
If we know Serge Lama under this name since the late 1960s when his career has taken off, it is not his real surname! The singer found his stage name in a rather special way …
“”Chauvier, it didn’t sound, it didn’t work“”
When he released his first disc after being noticed at the Cabaret l’Ecluse, where Barbara performed, the artist had to choose a stage name, his real name being … Serge Chauvier! “”Chauvier, it didn’t sound, it didn’t work“, He said to the radio microphone here. His father Georges Chauvier, a famous tenor in the Bordeaux region, had also met the same concern for his career, but had finally kept this family name.
But the interpreter of I’m sick had trouble choosing a stage name. “”I had tried lots of names, including an improbable: Serge Tobus“, He remembered. By dint of looking, he almost ended up being discouraged … and tried a very simple technique. He simply opened his dictionary at random and came across the word” Lama “!”So obviously, Serge Lama, at the beginning, when you are not used to it, you don’t know. I write it in green, blue, red … “he said. Finally, the singer opted for this confusing choice: “I decided that it was the one that suited“.
Serge Lama also had a thought for the Dalai Lama when he chose this name. “”I will not tell you the exact date, but it is very close to the moment when the Dalai Lama was hunted from Tibet (…) I think that a secret resonance may have made me tell me. I vaguely knew he was a very important person in Buddhism“He said.
Serge Lama, retired: “I stop the costs …“”
The singer, now 82 years old, flows happy days in his house in the pole alongside his wife Luana Santonino, whom he married in 2021. He decided to end his career, to the chagrin of his audience.
In 2023, during the music victories, Serge Lama explained his decision to bow out; “”I stop the costs, my body can no longer follow. I don’t want to sing seated. I refuse this possibility. I had a good life, I had the job that I wanted since the age of 11“. He finally fareweed in February 2024, during a program by Michel Drucker who was dedicated to him.
