Will Jane Birkin collaborate with her daughters, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon, in a new album? The 75-year-old singer confided openly to the “Parisian” on these somewhat special family ties…
Jane Birkin is particularly proud of the artistic career of his daughters, Lou Doillon, 40, and Charlotte Gainsbourg, 51. However, would the 75-year-old British singer be ready to collaborate with her children and record an album with them? “It’s not that I wouldn’t like it, but our kids had it fed up with always being taken back to their parents“, replied the artist, cash, in an interview with the Parisianthis September 12.
The celebrity of Jane Birkin, a “burden” for Charlotte Gainsbourg?
Pour Charlotte Gainsbourgthe notoriety of his parents was not “a burden“but it hasn’t been easy either.”This constant reference was very heavy“, explained his mother, who lived a long history with the late singer Serge Gainsbourg.
The companion of Yvan Attal, mother of Ben (25), Alice (19) and Jo (11), chose to settle in New York for a while, where her parents’ celebrity is well less obvious. Result ? The 51-year-old actress, who also and above all found refuge there following the death of her sister Kate Barry, was there “very happy“for a few years, assures Jane Birkin. And to add: “She was free“. Since then, Charlotte has been living in Paris once more.
Despite her desire to break away from family notoriety, Charlotte Gainsbourg shone at the Cannes Film Festival in 2021 when she presented her documentary Jane By Charlottein which she offers a moving portrait of her famous mother.
Jane Birkin, proud of her daughter Lou Doillon
As for her youngest daughter, the young mother Lou Doillon, born of her love affair with the director Jacques Doillon, she leads a career as an author-composer and performer that delights her mother. “It is a joy to be recognized and admired as a writer. Yesterday I was with a taxi driver who was lyrical regarding Lou. Since I was on the phone with her, I was able to pass her on. It was really happy. They each forged their career, their identity, without me and without their fathers. It’s not by making a record with me that I’m suddenly going to spoil all this work. No definitely not“, detailed Jane Birkin, decidedly determined to preserve her daughters.
Jane Birkin moved by the death of Queen Elizabeth II
In his interview at Parisian, the star therefore spoke of her daughters or her career but was also asked regarding recent news, including the death of the Queen of England. And Jane Birkin did not hide her strong emotion: “It touches me a lot, like a lot of people, I think. What’s absolutely charming is the devotion people had for him and his humor.”
