SERGE LAMA. At 79, singer Serge Lama will be at the Victoires de la Musique this Friday to receive an honorary trophy for his entire career.
[Mis à jour le 10 février 2023 à 16h16] Serge Lama in the spotlight at the Victoires de la musique 2023. This Friday, February 10, the singer, who turns 80 tomorrow, will receive a trophy saluting his entire career. A “last very pleasant hello to the profession”, in his own words, delivered during an interview granted to the Sunday newspaper. According to our information, Serge Lama will be present on the stage of the Victoires de la Musique, but will not sing. And this, despite his state of health, on which he spoke at length in the weekly.
“I don’t want to show myself today. I prefer to stay on what I was. Today, I would have to sing sitting down. This is not what the public wants to see… Physically, I am very damaged “I have a lot of trouble walking. You know, it’s difficult. I’ve been living on one leg for almost sixty years now. The other doesn’t obey me and it’s this one that carries everything.” Now she is fed up“, confides the singer to the JDD.
Serge Lama had refused a Victoire de la Musique
If he explains receiving it with “emotion” this Victory of Honor, Serge Lama had nevertheless refused it in 2013, when the organizers of the ceremony had wished to salute his fifty-year career. Physically diminished, Serge Lama had announced his retirement from the stage. After a first postponement of his last tour due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the singer declared in 2021 to RTL: “At my age it is reasonable to retire from business because I did what I had to do. do in my life and I would like to enjoy my family a little bit.”
Serge Lama, the aftermath of his accident
His state of health, Serge Lama owes it mainly to a road accident on August 12, 1965. The singer, polytraumatized, spent a year lying on a bed and underwent a dozen operations. On the eve of his 80th birthday, he still suffers from it. “I have too much pain related to the after-effects of my accident. I started walking eighteen months after this tragedy, but I have suffered all my life from lower back pain that shoots into my leg. C has become unbearable today”, he explained in the columns of the Parisianwhen confirming the end of his career on stage.