Throughout his career, Serge Lama drew his inspiration from women who have marked his life. Three of them, in particular, have particularly counted for him and even played a role in writing his famous songs. Discover them …
Serge Lama, who celebrated his 82th birthday on February 11, lives to the rhythm of music and wrote hundreds of songs. Among the most famous: I’m sick,, Algerino,, Adventure in adventure. The singer’s long career was also marked by major meetings, especially by those of three women with whom he shared his life. Who were the three great loves of Serge Lama’s life?
Serge Lama and her fiancée Liliane Benelli, separated by a terrible drama
At the start of her career, Serge Lama was in a relationship with Liliane Benelli, a pianist who collaborated with the singer Barbara. But the love story between the singer and the musician took a tragic turn when she lost her life following a car accident on August 12, 1965. Serge Lama, who was present in the car at the time of The accident learned the death of his fiancée a month and a half after the facts.
This painful event affected the singer on the psychological, but also physical level, since he underwent 14 heavy operations and almost a year of immobilization in a hospital bed. Today, the singer is still wearing the stigma of this accident. “”I am not entitled, my left foot is paralyzed. My right leg is so tired of wearing the left leg. My pool is deteriorating. Old pain wakes up and now I hurt everywhere. It’s unbearable, really very hard“He had told the Parisian.
Serge Lama: Michèle Potier, her first wife … “My love at first sight was immediate”
Some time after the drama, Serge Lama married Michèle Potier, her former assistant. The two lovebirds met in 1969 in Chamonix and began their love story in 1971, after the divorce of the latter. “”I met Michèle in 1969, in Chamonix, through a friend. My love at first sight for her was immediate, even if she was as discreet and shy as I was myself exuberant at the time“He had revealed to Paris Match. The two lovers had a child, Frédéric, born in 1981, whose existence had been hidden at first in order to preserve him from the tumult of media coverage.
During these many years of couple with Michèle Potier, the artist with the Velvet voice admitted to having given in to adultery. “”In my life, I was an unfaithful, it was stronger than me because women were stronger than me“, had entrusted Serge Lama to RTL. On October 25, 2016, Michèle Potier, then aged 71, succumbed to an AVC, after 45 years of common life with Serge Lama.
Who is Serge Lama’s new partner and how old is she?
Since February 11, 2021, the 82 -year -old singer has been married to Luana Santonino, a former 35 -year -old teacher her younger. But their love story is not so recent, she even started during her marriage to Michèle Potier.
In 2021, Serge Lama explained to Paris Match Why he chose to get married late with Luana: “It’s been almost twenty years that I have been with Luana and I said to myself: ‘I don’t know when I’m going to leave … Can I leave this woman like that? Without giving him my name? No, it was not possible. Luana Santonino had to be called Lama“.
