In an interview with JDD, Nicoletta said she felt “betrayed” by Bernard Lavilliers. In question, a lack of recognition of the singer for his free participation in the duet “Idées noirs”, in 1983.
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Nicoletta doesn’t hold her tongue in her pocket. After strongly criticizing Aya Nakamura and her songs, the 80-year-old singer is now hitting artists with whom she has already collaborated. In Le Journal du Dimanche, this April 21, it is Bernard Lavilliers who takes it for his rank. She said she felt betrayed by the singer after their duet on Idées noirs, released in 1983. However, between them, the story started rather well. At the time, Bernard Lavilliers was looking for a female voice to accompany him on the title. “One day, the phone rang at noon: Bernard Lavilliers was looking for a singer. […] It was Richard Marsan, his artistic director, an old friend of Léo Ferré, who advised him to call me. […] Barely had time to hang up when I was already in the taxi. In two hours, the matter was over,” remembers the interpreter of Mamy Blue.
Bernard Lavilliers sang Dark Ideas with Catherine Ringer and Nicoletta didn’t like it
For this duo, Nicoletta says she “gave the gift of [sa] performance” to Bernard Lavilliers. She was then independent, not represented by a label, and had decided not to ask for financial compensation from the singer for this duet. “I was wrong,” she now believes. What remains in his throat is the artist’s choice to be accompanied by Catherine Ringer rather than by her to perform the piece on the stage of the Victoires de la Musique, in 2024. Bernard Lavilliers then received a Victory of Honor for his entire career. Catherine Ringer, with whom he re-recorded a version of Idées noirs in 2014, was there to accompany him.
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For Nicoletta, Bernard Lavilliers should have thought of her at the 2024 Victoires de la Musique
“She sings very well, nothing to say about her work”, clarifies Nicoletta regarding the ex-singer of Rita Mitsouko. “But I think that Bernard could have had the kindness to have a word for me: he thanked me very much. everyone else, so why not me? I didn’t give him anything, as far as I know, except a gift. That will teach me.” A blow to the ego from which Nicoletta does not recover.
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