Daniel Balavoine: The mother of her children remarried with a man who has a particular story with large TV stars

33 years old … This is the age when he died following in the sky of Mali on January 14, 1986. A Christ age. A tragic accident told just five years ago, by the man who had found the singer’s body. On Paris-Dakar for Radio Europe 1, the technician Dominique Fillon remembered this January 14 as if it was yesterday. “The rumor ran in the bivouac that there had been a helicopter accident, he said on the antenna that used him at the time. The witnesses of the accident were by car. The helicopter was flying above them and they saw it disappear, then reappear before crashing. When they reached the finish line, they announced to the commissioner present on the spot that they had seen an accident. “ Despite the nightfall, Dominique Fillon decided to go by car to the crash, accompanied by journalist Gérard Jouany.

“On their instructions, we discovered the wreckage of the helicopter in our headlights. We went down, and with pocket lamps we started to look, in the debris, the people who were thereadded the technician. We immediately recognized, because we knew them well, Thierry Sabine, the organizer of the rally, François-Xavier Bagnoud, the helicopter driver, and Jean-Paul Le Fur, a friend of RTL. And then we found Two corpses that we did not identify.” After verification, the two bodies in question were those of the journalist of Sunday newspaper Nathalie Odent and singer Daniel Balavoine. Well aware that this loss would shock France, Dominique Fillon and Gérard Jouany kept information for them all night.

The next day, when France learns the helicopter accident, the shock is violent. In Mali in parallel with Paris-Dakar to supervise a humanitarian operation, Daniel Balavoine was to return quickly to Paris where Corinne, his partner and. Daniel Balavoine’s shadow woman since their meeting in 1981, Corinne Barcessat has a lot of trouble accusing the blow. Plagued by immense sadness, She will not assist on January 20, 1986. Journalists, close and fans of the singer will understand this ultimate modesty in pain. It was for her that he wrote and sang, in 1985, Azizaone of his biggest hits. It is for Corinne that he will get involved in his humanitarian works in North Africa.

Daniel Balavoine: his daughter Joana almost never called Balavoine

The spell is being tested. In June 1986, Corinne Barcessat gives birth to Joana. The young mother must fight against civil status to have Daniel Balavoine’s daughter recognized as the daughter and, therefore, attribute the family name to her. “It’s a great story that my mom explained to me in adolescence, remembered Joana in 2015 in Paris Match. I was born in June 1986, my dad died five months before … and, of course, as they were not married, I was bear the name of my mother. Except that she wished, immediately after my birth, that I could also bear the name of my father. “ What seemed to be just a simple civil status formality turned into a real Chinese headache.

“Our lawyer, Sylvain Jaraud, has initiated legal proceedings at my birth To be recognized post mortem by my father And, therefore, to bear his name, Added the young woman who crossed a lot. We had to do somewhat tedious administrative procedures, which ultimately resulted. Indeed, just before her disappearance, Papa had repeatedly announced to media that mom was pregnant, which thus attested to the veracity of the facts. It is therefore thanks to the newspapers that I bear my name. [Rires.] And, indeed, on my birth certificate, there is the name of a young girl of my mother who is barred and Balavoine inscribed right next to it. It’s a nice story. “

For his part, Corinne Barcessat will never give any interview with a journalist. , leaving her two children with the right and Claire Balavoine (the singer’s sister) the free hand on the work of the interpreter of All cries the sos. In the early 2000s, she married a man known to the French PAF. Quoted in the jingle which has become very popular “Magneto Serge”, Launched in the shows by to present promo videos of artists, Serge Khalfon was the historic producer of the man in black. An hertzian figure in the shadow that Corinne married a quarter of a century ago. In 2014, it was under the pseudonym of Coco Khalfon that she co-signed, with the TV host, a book on empty nest syndrome (Three little towers and the children go away – JC Lats).

Today, Corinne Khalfon still does not want spotlights. This does not prevent him from keeping an eye on the work of the one for whom his color and his words … everything suits him. The one who would have been 71 years old on February 5, 2025… Daniel Balavoine.