Michel Berger “died of stress”, the events that have marked his life – Gala

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In 2012, following the release of the biography of Yves Bigot on Michel Berger, the newspaper le Figaro drew up a portrait of the artist. Close friend of the singer, the former CEO of Warner France, Bernard Bosson, said he, too, blows of fate which have marked the life of the interpreter of The Groupie of the pianist.

“He died of stress,” concludes Bernard de Bosson in the portrait of Michel Berger published in le Figaro in 2012. “Behind the success, there’s this tormented life and tragic fate. “wrote, as to him, the journalist Yves Bigot in his biography titled something in us of Michel Berger. An image of an artist tortured far away from the portrait as smooth as it could be.

Suffering from a cardiac pathology, Michel Berger always knew that he was going to die young. “He had not the time,” explains Bernard de Bosson. All his life, he waited the death. “A diseased heart and a heart that has suffered many times throughout his life. The first time, he was 6 years old. After an operation, his father Jean Hamburger, loses his memory and no longer recognizes his family. When the memories come back, he left the home abruptly. An episode was traumatic for Michel Berger, who is going to develop a fear of abandonment.

He sought refuge in music which has any of the powers “cathartic, healing, analgesic,” wrote Yves Bigot. This is where, in 1968, that he met his first muse, Véronique Sanson. Four years of love that the singer is shattered the day when she finally leaves. “J‘I left Michel in telling him that I was going to buy cigarettes, details-Didier Varrod in the collection Empreintes (France 5). It was as if I had planted a dagger in the heart.”

Yet in 1973, the interpreter of Heaven blancretrouve quickly love with a young singer, France Gall. With it, he had a daughter, Pauline and a boy Raphael. Unfortunately, their daughter is suffering from a genetic disease lethal: cf. The artist will not evoke ever the event in the media, but confided sometimes to his press secretary, his only confidante on the death penalty that haunts him.

A year after the birth of his son, Michel Berger loses his brother after he fought against multiple sclerosis. A drama of more, to which must be added the disappearance of his friends Coluche and Daniel Balavoine four years later. Music as an escape does not save him from a heart attack, in full game of Tennis in Ramatuelle, August 2, 1992.

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Michel Berger

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