“Everywhere was black… The land was also black, but there was the solidarity of the miners.This is the first memory that comes to mind when Salvatore Adamo tells of his arrival in Belgium when he was a little boy, just over the age of 3. “I left my mother’s hand at the Milan station.she remembers. It took two or three minutes, which remained like a trauma in my memory. I got lost in the hustle and bustle.“In this documentary narrated by actor Daniel Auteuil, the momentary sense of abandonment that strangles the singer as she looks back at her journey at the age of 79. A happy childhood and adolescence in Jemmapes, Belgium, but is marked by lack of money and the harshness of the mine where her father Antonino worked at night. .She was returning from the 28th hole in her overalls, with a flashlight on her forehead, when I ran into her in the mornings, sometimes before she went to school. I could only see the whites of his eyes, they were so charcoal.”
REVENGE OF A SHAME
We forget, but in the mid-1960s, it was the second largest record seller in the world, after the Beatles. When he released a new album on January 27 in 2023, French please!, It is estimated that he has sold over 120 million records and given more than 7,000 concerts since his 1960 debut, adapting a collection of English-language books he particularly admired into French. Before he could get there, this very shy man had to take his courage and dare… he had to dare to sing, write lyrics, compose songs, and also secretly sign up for a tele-hook.
“I WON WITH A CLAIM METER”
“I was a little over 16 and wrote this piece, Si j’osais. I participated in a recorded program and won the applause meter. I didn’t say it when I got home, I didn’t say it. parent. The program aired on the radio two weeks later. One evening I said to my father: “Listen to the radio with me.” My father looked at me quite disapprovingly, not understanding what was going on. And they heard me sing if I dared. There he smiled.“Recorded, the song will only sell 500 copies, most of which were bought by Salvatore’s family or relatives. He was given a second chance with a new name, also written by himself. without you my love. Well, we don’t like the song, it doesn’t play on the radio, but it becomes a hit on cafe jukeboxes. Salvatore’s career finally begins. Title without you my love especially in Japan, it was so successful that residents today think it’s a traditional Japanese song…
Salvatore Adamo: my life, the truth: Friday 27 January at 21:10 in France 3
FREDERICK RAPILLY
Source: Programme Television
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