Serge Lama lived a good number of trials in his life, but his destiny almost changed when he was confronted with death. The 82 -year -old singer was saved “miraculously”, according to his confidences at “7 days” …
Serge Lama was born in the middle of the Second World War in 1943. A dark period that deeply marked him, even though he was just a baby. It must be said that he had come close to death at the time, as he told 7 days…
Serge Lama came close to death: her father “miraculously” saved her
Serge Lama was born in a context to say the least difficult. While he was only an infant born during the Second World War, he almost died … but was miraculously saved in time by his father. “”In Bordeaux, where I was born, there were bombing alerts, and people went down in the shelters. One day, my father took me there just before a shell crosses my cradle. Destiny, you see … the bombs fell around me, and yet I miraculously survived“He said.
Even growing up, while war had been over for a few years, the scepter of these terrible years hovered over the future singer. “”All my childhood, we were talking about war. My father had fled the compulsory work service before the arrival of the Germans. All his fellow arms were killed. He would also have perished if he had stayed there. So imagine the conversations around the table … These stories have nourished my childhood imagination“He said.
Serge Lama and her serious accident: “On stage, the pain was fading …”
Unfortunately, the suffering had not stopped there for the interpreter of I’m sick Since in 1965, he was the victim of a serious car accident. While the vehicle was led by Jean-Claude Ghrenassia, the manager of his tour and brother of Enrico Macias, he crashed against a tree. The driver of the car did not survive, nor Liliane Benelli, the fiancée of Serge Lama who was killed instantly.
The singer has just survived, but has undergone many surgical operations and has kept heavy afterlife, especially on his left leg. But in concert, the interpreter of Of adventures in adventures forgot his pain: “It was as if someone else sang in my place. I was both puppeteer and puppet. It is difficult to explain to someone who does not live that, but yes, on stage, the pain faded“.
The singer, now 82, nevertheless announced last February, during the music victories, that he stopped his career: “I didn’t see myself singing sitting in an armchair. So I made the decision to leave the scene“. Today, he flows happy days in Paris, alongside his wife Luana Santonino.