VERONIQUE SANSON. Singer Véronique Sanson is the guest of the Star Academy prime. The opportunity for the 73-year-old singer to get back on stage, a rare thing on television since her health problems.
[Mis à jour le 29 octobre 2022 à 19h13] In promotion for her upcoming album, Véronique Sanson is the guest of the second Star Academy bonus, this Saturday, October 29, 2022, on TF1. The French singer will have the opportunity to perform on the telecrochet stage with two students from the promotion of 2022, Chris and Paola. The opportunity to return to the spotlight, which is rare on TV sets.
If her health is preserved today, Véronique Sanson still bears the scars of the cancer she defeated in 2018. Tonsil and throat cancer, which kept her away from the scene for many months, the forcing them to cancel about twenty dates. If her remission is total, as she announced at the beginning of the year 2019, her voice still retains some traces. In 2020, Véronique Sanson even confided that she was afraid of completely losing this voice, always inimitable, because of the disease, in an interview with the JDD.
“Of course I was worried! The rays, the side effects, the loss of taste and smell, it screws up your vocal cords …”, explained Véronique Sanson to the weekly. “But I got out of it and celebrated my 70th birthday at the Palais de Sports. My voice is still there, I even find it even better”, she continued, already announcing at the time that she was working on a next album. . Explanation of the long wait of the fans or not, Véronique Sanson also poured out at the time on her eternal anxieties, starting with that of no longer being able to compose. “Right now, I’m afraid to talk to my piano, that it won’t answer me. I have the impression of repeating myself, of always finding the same melodies”, she lamented in the Journal du Dimanche.
On this cancer, diagnosed in September 2018, Véronique Sanson will ensure that she has never been afraid of death. “Health level, I had cancer and it’s over. I’m in total remission … Finally, until the next blow from Trafalgar!”, Also confided the artist to Current Woman in August 2021. The disease by Véronique Sanson will also give him the opportunity to express “a lot of gratitude towards life, which has not always been easy”.
Véronique Sanson is a French singer and pianist, revealed to the general public in 1972 with in love and Need anyone. Participating in the first tour of Les Enfoirés in 1989 and compiling many successes throughout her career, she is one of the sure values of French variety. Born in 1949, Véronique Sanson comes from a family of resistance fighters. His father, René Sanson, is a lawyer and politician. She learned the piano very early. Her first attempts are inconclusive, but she meets Michel Berger. An idyll was born between the two pianists and he produced his first album entitled in love in 1972.
The success is there, so that only a few months later his second opus is released. On the other side of my dream with new tubes, like Song about my funny life. She suddenly leaves Michel Berger to join the musician Stephen Stills in the United States, with whom she has a son, the future singer Christopher Stills.
The albums that follow are more rock-oriented, but are also commercial successes. Véronique Sanson divorced in 1979 and returned to France. She participates with Jean Jacques Goldman at the first recording of the Enfoirés for the Restos du Coeur. In 1992, his tenth album Without regrets was crowned platinum and received her first Victoire de la Musique. It was by taking up songs by Michel Berger that she returned to success in 1999. In the early 2000s, she experienced health problems with alcohol addiction, but since 2004 and the album Long distance, it multiplies the concerts and various participations. In 2013, she was awarded a Victoire de la musique d’honneur.
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Véronique Sanson was one of Michel Berger’s muses. In the 70s, the two artists spun the perfect love and gave birth to many hits, such as The pianist’s groupie Where A few words of love. Until that day in 1972 when Véronique Sanson put an end to this relationship for another artist, American this one, Stephen Stills. In March of that year, the two singers were working in the studio when Véronique Sanson decided to go buy cigarettes. And never to come back. After this idyll, Michel Berger will find love in the arms of France Gall, until his death in 1992.
From her marriage in 1973 to the American musician Stephen Sills was born a son, Christopher, on April 19, 1974 in Boulder, Colorado in the United States. Author, composer and performer, Christopher Stills also distinguished himself in music, releasing a first album in 1998, called 100 Year Thing. If he has called his career into question, he is however releasing a second album, Chris Stills, in 2005. Christopher Stills worked with his mother, with whom he sings in duet. Since then, he has appeared in the musical Cleopatra, in the guise of Julius Caesar, but also in the film Requiem for a Slayerby Jérôme Le Gris, released in 2011. In April 2019, he opened for Véronique Sanson at the Dôme de Paris.
In addition to her relationship with Michel Berger, Véronique Sanson was also the companion of Johnny Hallyday. Faced with Léa Salamé, in an interview for the program “Stupéfiant”, broadcast Monday April 29, 2020 on France 2, the singer indulged in some secrets about her former relationship with the Taulier and her friendship with Eddy Mitchell. “Johnny was unreachable. Besides, I think he was a little bit jealous of me. Because I made my music, because I’m a musician, because I played the piano, I played the guitar, I was composing on the guitar. He can be macho”, explained the singer in the first images of the program.
To Léa Salamé, Véronique Sanson confides then to have been closer to another singer, Eddy Mitchell. “I adore him. Because he’s a good guy, because he’s a musician. He’s a guy who approaches music with humor”, explained Véronique Sanson.
In 2020, Véronique Sanson made her comeback in the Enfoirés troupe, whose concert was broadcast that year on Friday March 6, on TF1. A first since 1999 for the 70-year-old singer. Great news for production. “Les Enfoirés is something transgenerational. Véronique Sanson was there thirty years ago. Muriel Robin was our mistress of ceremonies for years, it was great to have them back. It’s a good signal. This means that, even if we are not there, we are always behind the Restos du Coeur”, explained Anne Marcassus, producer of the show, interviewed at the time by 20 Minutes.
But then why was Véronique Sanson absent from Coluche’s band for so long? “It became more and more spectacular and I was no longer invited, but it didn’t bother me at all,” explained the interpreter of Song about my funny life. In recent years, the artist had become rarer on the front of the stage. She had to face the disease: a tumor in an amygdala which had forced her to cancel several concerts in 2018. She has since resumed the path of the stage and therefore, that of the Enfoirés!
After her fight against illness, Véronique Sanson returned to the stage, notably for a concert at the Palais des Sports-Dôme in Paris, where she celebrated her 70th birthday in 2019. The singer was to go on tour again, before the Covid pandemic -19 decides otherwise. On September 10, 2020, Véronique Sanson performed in concert at the Parc des Oiseaux, in Villars-les-Dombes on the occasion of the Musicales. She then continued to scour the halls with an album announced for the end of 2022.