Garou remembers the fire of Notre-Dame in “50’Inside”

“Beautiful, this is a word that looks like invented for her”. Words broadcast in a loop at the great hours of musicals. In the late 1990s, Garou was quasimodo in Notre-Dame de Paris. “Another life”as defined by the singer this Saturday, May 3 in “50 minutes inside” on TF1. He adds: “I even sometimes find it to remember how I was on stage because I was no longer myself, I was quasimodo.”

However, Garou responded to sing during the reopening of Notre-Dame on December 7. On the forecourt, he sang another of the tubes of the musical of Luc Plamondon and Richard Cocciante, Cathedral time.

“I had already been called a lot when there was unfortunately this fire”April 15, 2019, “It was crazy how the phone sounded as if it was my house that was burning”recalls the singer who seems to be linked for life to this monument. “I realized at that time how hyperassociated in Notre-Dame I was still hyperassociated. That it is called for the reopening, it was magic. A rather special journey in time ”he assures.

It is an accident that I do this job.

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Garou in “50 ‘inside” on TF1

It is then with the tube Alone or his duet with Céline Dion Wind that Garou conquered the hearts of the French. But the media exposure was “Too strong to manage” For the singer, as he explains to Isabelle Ithurburu.

“I never had any ambition, it is an accident that I do this job”he confesses, denying “All obsession” for success. Album after album, Garou has a taste for novelty. “If people don’t like it”he assures it, “He will not be angry”. This is why he cherishes his life with ease in Quebec when he is not on tour: “There, I always have something to do”.

“Trees that have fallen, things to repair. During this period, I do my maple syrup, it’s a lot of work, I have big days ”he likes to tell. “When I am in places where people don’t know me, I’m getting fun of”concludes the artist.