RENAUD. At 70, singer Renaud announces a new tour scheduled for 2023, entitled “Dans mes cords.” Really ?
[Mis à jour le 22 novembre 2022 à 15h06] In my strings : this is the name of Renaud’s next tour, announced for 2023. The singer “signs his big comeback on stage with In my stringsan intimate tour where he will be accompanied on the piano by his friend Alain Lanty and a set of string instruments”, promises a press release.
With this new tour, Renaud will pass by the Casino de Paris, the Olympia or even the Francofolies de La Rochelle. In total, 26 dates, between January and July 2023. But going back on stage and chaining concert dates, is it really In the ropes of Renaud? Friday November 18, the day before the announcement of this surprise tour, the 70-year-old singer appeared on the set of the NRJ Music Awards weakened, trembling, barely able to speak and even less to sing.
What arouse great concern around his state of health, undermined by years of excess and addiction. However, nothing seems to affect the enthusiasm of the fans: the opening of the ticket office for his tour has caused a saturation of online sales sites. In Avignon or Saint Brieuc, the dates are already full. Proof that for the fans, a concert of Renaud does not miss.
Tickets for Renaud’s concerts are available at all points of sale, such as on the Fnac, Seetickets, Ticketac.
Renaud and the album metic
Renaud celebrated his 70th birthday on Tuesday May 11, 2022. A new decade for the popular singer, who had unveiled a new album for the occasion, baptized meticFriday, May 6, 2022. The occasion also for many anonymous people and personalities to celebrate the singer with various birthday surprises, as on France 2 with the show Happy birthday Renaudwhere many artists followed one another on the stage of the Dôme de Paris to take up some of the standards of Renaud, also present.
This 70th anniversary was also an opportunity for the “Phoenix” to confide in his life today, his projects, his desires and his addictions, which he finds difficult to get rid of, even if he wants to be, in the press, reassuring about his state of health.
On the occasion of this 70th anniversary and the release of his new album, Renaud spoke extensively in the press about his state of health and his state of mind. If he claims to be well, or in any case better, the singer notably confided in the columns of Parisian, on May 5, that these 70 years did not enchant him: “70 years, it does not water, it despairs. I do not like it. Aging is a shipwreck”. Eternal tortured, he evokes “stress, life, the loss of childhood, the anxiety of aging, not seeing grow [s]es children”, but also “fragile friendship and impossible love”. Subjects which seem to haunt him and which he mentions today explicitly to explain his addictions. The recording of the France 2 program, which was dedicated to him on May 10, was itself difficult: Renaud lets go of having been “terrorized”, before finally being “carried by the enthusiasm of the public”.
A sign of this desire to move forward, despite the obstacles, Renaud also revealed to RTL a week ago that he wanted to record two new albums, another cover album after metic just released (read below) and an album of songs of its own. Politics (he voted Poutou in the first round of the presidential election then Macron by “pinching his nose”) or the death of Yvan Colonna could give him inspiration, when, by his own admission, ideas are lacking. “I’ve only written two new songs so far,” Renaud told Le Parisien, mentioning a “rock song inspired by a Margerin comic book, ‘I want a Harley'” and another on George’s death. Floyd.
Renaud also delivered secrets about his health in an even more prosaic way in this series of interviews. On the website of Sunday newspaper, this Friday, May 6, 2022, he notably returned to the heart operation undergone last year. “I had heart surgery last year. I had a stent put in because of a clogged artery. Since then, I’ve been doing very well,” he said, when rumors of his death broke. have stopped accumulating in recent months.
Death therefore, again and again, Renaud’s main terror: “It’s always an anguish. Every day, I get up and I say to myself: it’s the last day of the rest of my life. All this coupled with an unfailing paranoia”, confesses the singer on RTL.
“I no longer drink a drop of alcohol, but I still smoke like a firefighter”, also detailed Renaud on the radio as in Le Parisien. The singer, whose voice appears more and more rocky with each of his appearances, which have become rare, assured the Ile-de-France daily that he was now in the process of healing after years of addiction to alcohol and cigarettes. “I reduced the cigarette. When I sang, I was at fifteen a day, instead of forty. But I went up to twenty. It’s harder to stop than that (he shows his glass). I’m at the Bitter San Pellegrino. It’s been a year and a half since I’ve had a drop of alcohol. I’m holding on,” he told the newspaper.
Renaud once again dwelt on his addiction problems in the various interviews granted this week: “It’s my life, bistros. A place of conviviality, meeting, sharing where we remake the world”, explains- he on RTL. “When I think of the number of times I drove home with 2.5 grams of alcohol in my blood … There must be a god for drunks!”, he also remembers in the JDD.
A speech that complements the one he has already had for several years on his discomfort, in his songs as in interviews: “I drink because I’m not good in my skin, in my rind. I have psychoses , anxieties, a bad life, a nostalgia for my childhood. And it gets worse with all these friends who die around me, “he already explained to Serge magazine in 2010. “I find it difficult to express my feelings. I am taciturn, withdrawn, rather introverted. And I find it difficult, especially in interviews, to deliver my heart (…) I have the impression that I am being violated when I am interviewed”, a- he also dropped on RTL last Thursday.