The artist with a 75-year career died at his home in Saint-Cloud, west of Paris.
The song Blue, white, blond, it was him. The Mexican, Also. The singer Marcel Amont, star of the music hall, died at the age of 93, according to a press release from his family sent to AFP, on the night of Wednesday March 8 to Thursday March 9. The leaping artist and whimsical showman, with a 75-year career, died at his home in Saint-Cloud, west of Paris.
Born April 1, 1929 in Bordeaux, Marcel Miramon, his real name, “went up” to the capital in 1950, gradually making a name for himself in cabarets. In 1956, his first record received a Grand Prix from the Charles-Cros Academy and he opened for Edith Piaf at the Olympia. Despite the yé-yé surge, the singer, who called himself an “entertainer”, clings to the stage and remains true to himself, with titles like Maria and the milk jug (1965). He regrets being “one of the few survivors” fantasists.
He celebrated his 90th birthday on stage in Paris in 2019
The early 1970s marked the high point of his career: a gold record in 1971 (Love passes the time)a triumphant Olympia and a TV show, “Amont-Tour”, where he performs with choristers and dancers. He tries his hand at musical comedy with Why don’t you sing? (1975), of which he says that “the review was good but no one came”.
After a period of disgrace, he returned to the Olympia in 1989, before signing his literary debut. He also appears in TV movies. He had celebrated his 90th birthday on stage in Paris in 2019, during a concert at the Alhambra, in the company of artists like Serge Lama or Nicoletta. “Marcel Amont made millions of hearts jump around the world”, reacted the Minister of Culture, Rima Abdul Malak, on Twitter.