We owe him the tube “Farewell, Jolie Candy” but did you know that Jean-François Michael is also behind the success of the song “Hurricane” by Stéphanie de Monaco? Here is what the 78 -year -old artist becomes.
We owe him the essential tube Farewell, pretty candysold more than 5 million copies and which offered it notoriety! But Jean-François Michael is not just a singer, he also produced several musical successes. What becomes of it today?
Where does Jean-François Michael live today?
Jean-François Michael (his real name Yves Roze), who will celebrate his 79th birthday on April 16, has lived in Charente-Maritime for almost twenty years with his wife Cécile, reports the daily Southwestwho left to meet him in 2024. The couple lives in a Saintongeaise house where the artist notably installed audio equipment.
The singer and his wife are the parents of a girl named Manon. In parallel, he is also the father of two other children, Lisa and Jules, born of two other romantic relationships.
Does Jean-François Michael are still singing?
Yes, Jean-François Michael continues the scene. While he participated in the tour Tender age and wooden headsit also punctually gives some concerts in France but also abroad. It was announced, with Michèle Torr, as a headliner of the gala Nostalgia nights At the Casino du Lebanon, last March.
The identity of Jean-François Michael Usurpée for 20 years!
Jean-François Michael today leads a discreet life far from the show business but his stage name earned him some misadventures. Indeed, he was the victim of identity theft for twenty years. “For several years, there has been an Italian who pretends to be me, under the name of Jean-François ‘Michel’. He pushed the vice until I went on television and organized concerts by usurping my identity, while singing only my songs. However, this man has recently died. There was therefore confusion …”he had explained to Audience in 2022.
And it is up to him to make some confessions: “One day, my mother called me at dawn, panicked, because she had heard that I was in prison. It was obviously not me. In short, I really lived twenty years of nightmare because of him.”
Why was Jean-François Michael banished from Monaco?
In addition to his singer career, Jean-François Michael also produced several tubes for others such as for example Concretethe legendary Renaud album. But, even more surprising, he also produced a huge flagship tube from the 80s: Hurricane. This song that made a box in the charts When it was released in 1986 was interpreted by Princess Stéphanie de Monaco.
“”Stéphanie and I had registered in secret. The song came out on the day of its 21 years and it was a surprise for everyone. Good or bad, depending on people. With this single, I got angry with the profession and with the princely palace. I was first forbidden to stay in Monaco, then that was arranged later“He had told Here Paris.
What disease suffers from Jean-François Michael?
Jean-François Michael had to fight against a rare form of bone marrow cancer: Waldenström’s disease. Cancer that particularly affects men over the age of 60 and of which Jean-François Michael was diagnosed in 2013.
“It is very difficult to live on a daily basis. Right now, I am not reacting very well to my treatment. I suffer from the legs, I have lots of pimples … It is surely due to the incredible quantity of drugs that I have ingredient. Since the start of treatment, I am more than 1,500 caches absorbed, at the rate of 5 to 7 per day for almost a year. I am fed up!”he had described to France Sunday the same year.
