2023-06-25 00:51:01
Happy birthday to the most eccentric singer in show business! This June 24, Brigitte Fontaine celebrates her 84th birthday. The outspoken star has already mentioned the disease, his relationship to death or even his private life. Here’s everything you need to know about her.
Summary
Brigitte Fontaine blows out one more candle this June 24. And the singer, who pulls out the book Fatration (Le Tripode), does not fail to confide with her mythical sincerity on the death that prowls around her… But this anniversary proves that she is indeed alive and it is an opportunity to discover more on her.
Where does Brigitte Fontaine come from?
Brigitte Fontaine was born on June 24, 1939 in Morlaix, Finistère. “This town is fantastic for kids, with its orchards, gardens and ravines. I also found the viaduct (…) I love Morlaix. It’s the only place in the world where I feel safe. “she told the Telegram.
Brigitte Fontaine was brought up by parent teacherswho play amateur theater. “I played on stage with them, at 8 years old, then at 12 years old. At the time, I already knew that I would write one day and that I would do theater“, she explained to Telerama. At 17, she decided to go to Paris to pursue a career in comedy and played several plays at the Théâtre de la Huchette, in the 5th arrondissement of the capital.
It was in 1963 that she finally realized her dream of becoming a singer… for “calm jealousy“of are”lover of the time“. “I bowed to his wrath towards the male theater partners. SO, sneakily I started to write songs“, she clarified to Telerama. She performs her own pieces in several Parisian halls and, the following year, is in the first part of concerts of Georges Brassens.
Who is her husband Areski Belkacem ?
Jacques Higelin (who is his friend and not his brother as certain rumors seemed to indicate) introduces him to the composer, musician and chanteur Areski Belkacemwho first helped him put on his shows… then, after a few years of collaboration, he became his great love. “The first two or three years that I worked with him and Higelin, nothing happened, we were just friends, he was even the last of the guys I would have gone with… And suddenly, it goes up, it heats up, it heats up, and it’s passion“, she indicated to Telerama. They remain engaged for seven years before getting married.
Both form a couple that works, on stage and in life. “We have the same tastes for everything“, confided Brigitte Fontaine to Release. “It is Boccaccio (Areski Belkacem’s nickname, editor’s note) Who do everything at home, poor thing, I can’t“she added about their life together.
Does Brigitte Fontaine have children?
If Brigitte Fontaine did not have a biological child with her man, she has raised Ali, born from a previous relationship of the composer, as if he were his own son. Now this is musician and even composed the title music for Brigitte Fontaine and Archie Shepp, NRV.
Did Brigitte Fontaine have an abortion?
In Paris, in her early years, Brigitte Fontaine close to death several times. “I got pregnant several times. I have suffered abortions in such lamentable conditions that I have almost died of sepsis“, she explained to Telerama.
For the last clandestine abortion she undergoes, the “work is impeccable“, but she is faced with horror.”The doctor raped me. Atrocious. For at least two months, I lost sleep. As soon as I fell asleep, an electric shock ran through my body and woke me up. The abortion had been illegal, I couldn’t complain“, remembered the one who signed the Manifesto of 343 for the right to abortion in 1971.
Between 1975 and 1977, Brigitte Fontaine was banned from television. “I had pronounced in a self-interview a few sentences which were not really in conformity with the ideas of the regime in place (under Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, editor’s note), she explained in the book Brigitte Fontaine, by Benoît Mouchart. And her husband added:It was a sick thing, that time: we underwent a amazing censorship !“
What disease does Brigitte Fontaine suffer from?
Brigitte Fontaine told Telerama that she had a “severe nervous and mental illness“. And to explain: “No one can heal me. So I need lots and lots of comfort. To be surrounded by friends and love. Friendship is very important to me“.
Committed and feminist artistshe said about her fight, to France Culture : “If I am uprising against men ? Up down, up down, that’s all I do. Down with the stronger sex, to death, to death, to death! I’ve always been like that – except with my father, but there is also in the album “Les beaux Animaux” which praises men, because I am a paradoxical person; it’s an ode to the wonderful animals that are hyper sex men in the streets, cafes, pissotières, everywhere“.
What does Brigitte Fontaine want for after her death?
Brigitte Fontaine does not hide his fear of old age. “Elle closer to death, disease, of a certain physical decay… But, recently, I said to myself: after all, the passage of time is also about storing things that can be rich and beautiful. Have seen, heard, lived“, she confided to Telerama.
When it comes to evoking her age, Brigitte Fontaine kicks in touch. “I am 20,000 years old and (quoting Baudelaire), I am of all times and all universes“, she assured the Telegram.
Asked by France Inter on June 19, 2023 for the release of her new book, Brigitte Fontaine admitted to thinking “very often” at death, and revealed his wish for after his death: end up in a mass grave ! “Because the more the merrier!“, she says.
Brigitte Fontaine, who is ending her retirement in her apartment on rue Saint-Louis en l’Île in the 4th arrondissement of Paris where she has lived for years, has however found the cure for death: “Between death and me, a dam: writing“, she writes in her book.
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