Richard Cocciante, who has just celebrated his 80th birthday, is rare in the French media landscape. But where does the famous singer live today?
Richard Cocciante was born in French Indochina, in what is now Vietnam, grew up in Rome with his family and then left to pursue a career in music in France. But where does this artist who has just celebrated his 80th birthday and has ties to several places around the globe live now?
Where does Richard Cocciante live?
If he made a career in France in song, the interpreter of Sunburn, born to an Italian father and a French mother, does not live in the country of Molière. He first lived for a while in Monaco with his wife Catherine Boutet until the beginning of the 2000s. The musician was also found guilty of having failed to declare to the French tax authorities the majority of their income received in 2000. In 2007, the couple was sentenced to 3 years in prison and a fine of 37,500 euros each.
Today, both now reside in Dublin, Ireland, where their 36-year-old son David grew up, the Italian edition of Vanity Fair. The offspring of Richard Cocciante, who leads a discreet existence, has not followed in his father’s footsteps and has no appetite for the musical world.
“David fortunately escapes his fate. We artists are a weed. We have to take it with a grain of salt. Our children do not have an easy life. They may grow up with enormous frustrations. Fortunately, not David. Because he was able to find an alternative and independent path. He became a talented designer“, he confided.
Richard Cocciante: who is his wife Catherine? “She has given up on leaving…”
Although he has become an essential figure of song in France, Richard Cocciante nevertheless takes care to protect his private life and only very rarely discusses it. But we do know, however, that Catherine Boutet played a significant role in the singer’s career and often helped him in several aspects. “It was with her, and thanks to her, that I signed my first recording contract. She was decisive for Notre-Dame de Paris, a project that many opposed. It was my wife who convinced me to accept it“, told the Italian media Oggi the one who was composer of the musical Notre-Dame-de-Paris.
It is moreover “by chance” that the lovebirds met in the early 1980s, when Catherine Boutet, at the time an actress, was due to fly to the United States. “Since then, we have never left each other. She gave up leaving. She stayed with me. We worked together before starting a relationship“, he assured before specifying that his wife never regretted leaving the theater for him.
