2023-06-05 09:36:36
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Éric Cantona, here in Lisbon, in April 2019.
MUSIC – A new adventure begins for Éric Cantona, or at least it really takes shape. This Monday, June 5, and while he unveiled the first title of an upcoming album over the weekend, the former glory of football was a guest of the show. Totemic on France Inter to talk regarding his career as a songwriter and performer. A career that is not new, as he was able to explain.
It actually started in 2012 with the release of his wife Rachida Brakni’s first album, for which he wrote all the songs. In 2017, once more. It is to him that we owe in particular time passesa piece written for Lady Sir, the project of his partner in duet with Gaëtan Roussel.
A title that he did not sign in his own name, but under a pseudonym: Auguste Raurich. Aguste, because it was the first name of his great-uncle whom he never knew, a ” hermit in Ardèche which his grandmother told him a lot regarding. ” He’s still my idol », declares the artist. And Raurich because it is the surname of his Catalan maternal grandparents.
A record and a tour
Why not sign his name? ” Because we asked a journalist from a well-known and highly respected magazine if she had listened to Rachida Brakni’s album (the one from 2012, editor’s note). And she said: ‘I don’t listen to an album whose lyrics are written by an ex-footballer’ “, told Éric Cantona at the microphone of Rebecca Manzoni, this Monday.
He continued: “ I thought to myself that there might be first. […] How to dribble them? The best thing was to write under a pseudonym. But when Lady Sir’s album came out, this journalist listened to it and said her favorite song was time passes. »
Footballer, painter, actor and now singer, Éric Cantona never stops renewing himself. He unveiled, this Friday, June 2, The Friends We Lost (“Friends We’ve Lost”), the single from his debut album Cantona sings Eric. If the disc should not be released before 2024, a tour is already planned for the fall of 2023. This should start in Manchester, the city which made him king of football by nicknaming him ” The King ».
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