1 He hates the majors
In 1967, Jacques Bertin recorded his first 30 cm disc, which won the Grand Prix of the disc of the Charles-Cros Academy. In 1978, a criticism of the world believed that it could “impose itself on the general public as the most important French singer since Brel and Ferré. But the artist does not want to sell his independence to the majors, and creates his own record company, Velen. Too bad if it is felt in terms of promo. Since then, Jacques Bertin has signed 26 albums and fifteen books.
2 His father was one of the “Beavers” of Rennes
Reindeer? “A city of work, gray and rainy, full of happiness torn with the teeth by little people,” says Jacques Bertin in one of his songs. He was born there in 1946, rue du Tourniquet, in Bourg-Levesque. His parents, Catholics engaged with the laborious classes, instill in him the spirit of Breton Christian democracy. His father is one of the beavers, a movement of non -professionals who built houses in cooperative.
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3 He dreams of a house in the history of the song
Jacques Bertin may not have achieved the recognition of the general public, but he has not extinguished himself as so many comets powered by advertisers in search of easy tubes. True to his love of song to text, he invested in a project as a house in the history of the song in Vandeuvre-lès-Nancy (54). Start of work: September 2025.
4 It is not against hacking
Beyond his music, it is perhaps in the debate on hacking that the singular personality and the commitments of Jacques-Bertin are the best. On the one hand, the man declares himself in solidarity with the artists who must be precisely paid … On the other hand, he can find himself going into resistance alongside show-business, this “enemy of the human race”. “Who killed the record stores?” It’s the cultural industry! Exclaims the one for whom hacking also allows artists to make themselves known to a new audience.
“Louvigné-du-Désert, let us stop drinking/in a small coffee open to the first cold of the memory …” We had to sing this town of Ille-et-Vilaine (3,000 inhabitants) with a poetic name located on the Route du Mont-Saint-Michel. Jacques Bertin’s songs can be listened to online and on streaming platforms.
