Un trio of stars for a cult singer… Michael Jones announces that he has convinced Dion, Bruni and Kaas to join him for a tribute album to Jean-Jacques Goldman which will be released in September, The Goldman Legacy. It will follow a first album released in January where Marina Kaye, Lilian Renaud and the Berthollet sisters revisited the singer’s hits with a gospel choir, which had not failed to confuse some fans. “On the second album, there will be Carla Bruni, Patricia Kaas and Céline Dion, specifies Jones in The voice of the North. This is the only album on which there will be Celine Dion in two years, she has agreed to do it for us…”
The participation of Celine Dion should give a real bonus to the new opus: the singer has been very rare for several months, weakened by mysterious “muscle spasms” which forced her to cancel her planned shows in Vegas and her North American tour. last spring. Her return to the studio is therefore good news for fans and also proves the very strong friendship she has for Goldman, who has written her a number of hits in her career since their collaboration on the album. Twoin 1995, sold ten million copies: “So that you still love me”, “I will go where you will go”, “If it was enough to love”, without forgetting the latest, “Encore one evening”, written while René Angélil was fighting cancer…
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Celtic sounds
We still do not know the title chosen for this tribute album, but Michael Jones suggests that he intends to disconcert the public. “The first album was a little more gospel, the second will be more Celtic,” he warns. There are people who are going to be a little surprised…” According to the first indiscretions, we should find the titles “Envole-moi”, “Comme toi”, or a version of “Quand la musique est bonne” revisited in the colors of the ‘Ireland, with Bagpipes and Fiddle Violins…
What does the interested party think? He is obviously aware, even if he is not involved: Michael Jones is a lifelong friend and his faithful arranger Erick Benzi, who oversees the orchestration of the albums, wanted him to listen to his work. “For an artist who has reached a certain age, knowing that his songs survive him is gratifying, confided Benzi to the JDD last January. It is the best consecration. Jean-Jacques summed it up with a formula: “Songs are often more beautiful than those who sing them. They must have their own life. Yesterday or My Way no longer need their author to be taken over.” »
Goldman, 70, is more discreet than ever and still lives between London and Marseille, a city where he has kept his house and where part of his family resides. And he loves nothing so much as taking simple tourist trips, always under a pseudonym, to lost corners of France… For the time being, no return to the front of the stage is on the program. “I am saddened by the sadness that this absence can cause, he wrote to a fan last year, but I also know what the scene requires in terms of involvement, energy, desire and I am not. more capable…” A small consolation: the Goldman Heritage Tour is setting off on the roads of France, with an already sold-out Olympia scheduled for September 25.
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