MARC LAVOINE. The French singer Marc Lavoine is the guest of the Star Academy prime, this Saturday on TF1. The opportunity to take an interest in his private life.
[Mis à jour le 19 novembre 2022 à 20h13] Marc Lavoine alongside the students of the Star Academy: this Saturday on TF1, the artist will share a duet with the young Léa, candidate for this promotion of 2022. The opportunity for us to take an interest in the private prayer of Marc Lavoine. After his separation from Line Papin, according to Here, the singer would have found love with a “young woman aged just over 20”, the singer Zoé, known as Madimmi. The two artists shared a song, The end of a storyreleased on the 60-year-old singer’s latest album, Adult never.
Still according to Here, Marc Lavoine would have had “love at first sight for her”. But “he does not want to go too fast, he no longer wants to be overtaken by his passionate temperament. So with Zoé, he prefers to take his time”, explains to the magazine a “close to the singer.”
Since the 1980s, Marc Lavoine has settled comfortably into the French musical landscape. Born August 6, 1962 in Longjumeau, Seine-et-Oise, he is the second son of Lucien Lavoine, PTT employee and CGT activist, and Micheline Collin, secretary and Catholic, who died in 2011. His older brother, Francis , is a musician. Very quickly, he became passionate about music, growing up in this family of music lovers: very young, he wrote his own texts. Then, at 16, he embarked on his other passion, the theatre.
From “girly singer” in the 1980s to confirmed artist today, Marc Lavoine has gone through the ages without questioning his place in the French variety. Since his debut in 1983, after 12 studio albums and around thirty films, the interpreter of She has piercing eyes is obviously not ready to stop: in 2019 he unveiled a new album, a best-of pieces of lovecomposed of 7 previously unreleased tracks.
Who is Line Papin, the ex-wife of Marc Lavoine?
In the summer of 2020, the magazine Public revealed that Marc Lavoine and Line Papin were married on Saturday July 25 at the town hall of the Vth arrondissement of Paris. At 57, Marc Lavoine had been spinning perfect love with Line Papin, 24, for several years. The latter, a novelist, was born in Hanoi, Vietnam in December 1995. And their 33-year age difference does not change anything for them. “I don’t see it. That’s not how I understand life. Everyone does what they want,” confided the young woman to Liberation last May. Daughter of a French father with a degree in history and a mother who was a primary school teacher, then a translator, Line Papin grew up in France from the age of ten. In Paris, she studied art history at the Sorbonne and immersed herself in writing. Her first novel, Awakeningis a first success hailed by critics and awarded several literary prizes.
She was only 20 years old at the time. Since then, Line Papin has continued its momentum, publishing Tony in 2018, then Girls’ Bones, in 2019. The success is such that the young woman is already considered one of the most promising novelists of her generation. And the coach of The Voice either, no longer hid his feelings for Line Papin. “I am in love with this woman”, confided the singer to Nice Matin, explaining that the young novelist was the “more beautiful light than life [lui] brought with [s]are children”. And to go further: I had been in the dark for 10-15 years… There, I see the colors again. I am happy. So why hide?” But, according to information from Here, the couple separated a year after their marriage, in August 2021.
Marc Lavoine, new coach of The Voice
In 2022, for the second consecutive year, Marc Lavoine will resume his red chair as a juror of The Voice, on TF1. A new opportunity for the singer to try to impose himself on his fellow coaches in order to hope to land the best talents in his team. A role which is obviously not easy for the artist, as he explained in 2021 when he was chosen as a juror. “I’m accepting this time because my schedule allows it. And maybe because I’m more convinced that I can be useful. I realized while working on my ‘best of’ that I was still thirty -five years in the song”, explained Marc Lavoine in an interview granted to the Parisian in 2020, to justify his surprising participation in the tele-hook of the One.
And to add: “To be honest, I haven’t watched often… because I don’t have a TV. I have a screen but I use it to watch movies. I’m not very modern . I watched The Voice with friends. Which allowed me to realize how much this program pleases, including unexpected people from fashion or cinema. I also noticed it with sympathetic messages that I have received in the last few days”
The young son of Marc Lavoine YouTuber
On the private side, Marc Lavoine had two wives: the model Denise Pascale, mother of Simon, his first son, then Sarah Poniatowski, with whom he had three children. At only nine years old, the youngest of Marc Lavoine’s siblings of four children, started on the YouTube platform! It was on Instagram, at the very beginning of the summer of 2019, that the boy appealed to his subscribers: follow him on his new channel on which he shares his passion for football and where several videos have already been uploaded since June.