2023-07-16 14:31:00
After the death of Jane Birkin, found lifeless this Sunday July 16, 2023 at her home in Paris (in France), when she had recently announced health problems which had forced her to cancel concerts, the tributes do not stop flowing.
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The disappearance of this multi-talented figure with very popular titles first moved his close friend, Etienne Daho. The singer, who notably produced and composed Jane Birkin’s latest album, wanted to pay him a first tribute on Instagram. “JANE. Unimaginable to live in a world in your light”, he wrote modestly, accompanying his message with a black and white photo.
Emmanuel Macron: “She embodied freedom, she sang the most beautiful words of our language”
French President Emmanuel Macron posted a Tweet along with a photo showing her on stage with a broad smile. “Because she embodied freedom, she sang the most beautiful words of our language, Jane Birkin was a French icon. A complete artist, her voice was as sweet as her engagements were fiery. She bequeaths us tunes and images that will never leave us.”
Jack Lang: “She knew how to be both funny and sensitive, tragic and carefree, moving and seductive, and at the same time I would always say sweet”
“She herself was a resistance on all counts,” said former French Minister of Culture Jack Lang, who paid tribute to the artist to BFMTV.
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”Every time we knocked on her door or to support a person in the throes of suffering or who asked for a little generosity, she was there. Always present. She was the singer, the muse, the one who will forever be […] the one who was a single star. We have seen her laughing in a duet with Pierre Richard, but also sensual and provocative with Brigitte Bardot or audacious and luminous behind the camera of Agnès Varda. She knew how to be both funny and sensitive, tragic and carefree, moving and seductive, and at the same time I would always say sweet. So sweet, so modest, so human, so divine also by this modesty. We loved him, we adored him. Obviously, his life is inseparable from Serge Gainsbourg, from Charlotte.”
Sheila: “She was beautiful, talented, so generous with everyone, had her heart on her sleeve”
French singer Sheila shared a photo on Instagram with Jane Birkin. “But finally why?”, she writes. “She was beautiful, talented, so generous with everyone, had her heart on her sleeve. We might talk regarding it for hours. But following the stupor, and an immense sadness, I prefer like many of you to think of her.
Patrick Bruel : “Goodbye Jane…”
As for Patrick Bruel, he simply wrote “Goodbaye Jane” with a star and a heart.
Josiane Balasko: “It’s a sweetness that disappears in a world of brutes”
”The voice in his songs is very soft and whispered. And in the theatre, you mustn’t murmur. (Laughs.) And I always said to her: Louder, Jane, louder. And I knew very well that she might do it,” explains French actress and director Josiane Balasko. “[…] She always had this lightness […], she had a lot of humility. She was the first to laugh at herself. And Jane is really someone who for me represents tenderness and benevolence. […] I knew she was sick, and I thought she was better… […] It is a sweetness that disappears in a world of brutes.”
Pierre Richard: “A piece of my heart goes with her”
The tragic news also moved Pierre Richard who paid tribute to him on Twitter with two photos showing their friendship.
“How sad,” he said. “Jane, so funny, so smart, so fragile, so generous, if anything,” he added in a second message. “A piece of my heart goes with her.”
Véronique Gallot: “Jane Birkin was the embodiment of gentleness, strength and grace”
For her part, Belgian comedian Véronique Gallot posted a story on Instagram in which she posted a photo of the singer. “Jane Birkin was the embodiment of gentleness, strength and grace,” she wrote, having a thought for her two daughters, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon.
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