Invited in RFM studios for an exceptional interview by Bernard Montiel, this world star star has confided in the lack of recognition that France, however its native country, never granted it. Happiness came much later and especially during the Paris Olympic Games ceremony in 2024.
Cerrone was the guest of Bernard Montiel on RFM
Cerrone is an artist who is no longer present! Pioneer of French disco, he marked the 1970s with his electrifying beats and grandiose orchestrations. Genius percussionist, he also revolutionized the genre with mythical titles like Supernature et Love in C Minorinfluencing generations of artists, from Daft Punk to LCD Soundsystem. Very famous across the Atlantic where he built a gigantic career by working in particular with superstars like and his sister Latoya, Niles Rodgers, or even, before his birth rose to the top of the charts around the world. Everywhere … except in his native country: France.
A French recognition arrived a little late?
Indeed, as he explained at the microphone on RFM, Cerrone left her native country very early for a place where her talent was much more appreciated. “Why had you left France?”asks him the columnist of Touche pas à mon poste. “Because the United States which opened the doors to me. When I received Grammy Awards and I returned to France a fortnight after I was said: ‘So Cerrone, do you make more music?’ What is it hard “hastened to answer the DJ in the face of a Montiel totally bewitched by his words: “Yes, it’s difficult”. And for the 72 -year -old man at the origin of the Give tube loves me to add: “It is really the first time with the Olympic Games that France has shown me recognition. I really experienced it like that.” “And the Legion of Honor?”stacks the journalist against the DJ who then specified his feelings to him: “Yes, of course I had medals, I spoke to the president and what I most liked in this day when the president had given me the Legion of Honor is especially that he m ‘Has played in the courtyard of the Elysée, not in the garden but in the courtyard with Jean-Michel Jarre who also received that, it was a beautiful gift. The general public, that’s why emotion with the Olympic Games was much stronger, it was more important to me. “ A recognition which therefore arrives late for the artist with 50 years of career and the 30 million albums sold. Better late than never, right?
Find the entire interview with Cerrone by Bernard Montiel on YouTube.
