Outings – Leisure | Bénabar, rebellious but happy on stage

“For me, the stage is the cause and the consequence of the music. Making albums is great, but it’s a bit like making a recipe book whose dishes you would never eat”, Bénabar told us, last November. Since then, the columnist-singer has resumed the path of concerts (he is tonight at the Cepac Silo in Marseille and on April 10 at the Auditorium Jean-Moulin at Le Thor), with songs that cover 25 years of career and two new albums published the same year, in 2021. Because, deprived of the public in this period upset by the health crisis, Bénabar found himself “like a lion in a cage”, “going around in circles”, and therefore went into overdrive in creation. The one who won three Victoires de la Musique and