It’s an illness that could have cost him his life, but at 75 years old today, he’s going on tour again and at the moment, the singer is in a place he knows well, Brittany. “I am delighted to return to Brittany, as I always do. When I recently played in Vannes, I had 80 cousins in the room. Brittany reminds me of childhood memories, friends and above all an attachment to what my father passed on to me. This one couldn’t see a Breton headdress without having tears in his eyes”he explains in an interview with Telegramthis Sunday, January 12.
On stage, the artist who owns a , plays his classics, but also songs from his latest album, L’impermanencereleased last March and which constitutes his sixteenth studio recording. If he seems in great shape today, that was not always the case since in 2015, the father of 5 children from 3 different women revealed that he was suffering from bone cancer. Last August, Alain Chamfort spoke in an interview with Monde his state of health, he who is officially in remission, but who has difficulty accepting his situation. “I have lost flexibility, I no longer want to do things that are a little risky. (…) To be completely frank, I don’t see it very well. . The illness was a royal entry into this period of life where one visits one after the other to the doctor, where it almost becomes a lifestyle”he explained.
Alain Chamfort has back problems due to cancer
More than five months after his confessions, when our colleagues from Telegram ask him how he feels today, Alain Chamfort delivers a response full of sincerity. “I feel different from before and a little more fragile. First of all, because there are after-effects. I have, in fact, problems in my back, the vertebrae have been affected a little and I feel pain in my fingers”explains the singer, before ending on a more positive note: “But hey: at the same time, I don’t let myself go. So I now do a little sport, I continue to have projects and not to let myself be dominated by these little pains. I am, of course, less alert than before but it does it.”
Alain Chamfort announced that L’impermanence would be his last album, but his fans rest assured, it may not be over for him. “The public is turning to a different way of listening to music, so why continue to ignore this and absolutely want to ‘shove’ albums to them? For me, it’s the last but that doesn’t mean, however, that I won’t record anymore”he assures.
