Frank Michael, separated from his wife, a new life with another
After some last year health concerns – a risk of stroke and an operation to carotid – Frank Michael is back in top form. To mark the release of his latest album Listen women , soon septuagenarian singer, known for being very discreet about his private life, has let his heart crooner.
What do we really know Franco Gabelli alias Frank Michael? He is a very discreet man in the media shunned by radio stations but which for decades plowed the land of success harvested in becoming to each gold record album release. Embarked on the path traced by Frédéric François and Mike Brant in the mid 70s crooner despite his astonishing success yet remains virtually unknown to the public.
” They say I am a phenomenon. Because I sell millions and I did not turn on the TV , “he explained to the newspaper Libération in 2004, which he had recounted his journey son of Italian immigrants, foaming in the 70s the halls of his Belgium adopted, then those in the north and east of France.
At the time of these confidences, the interpreter of the hymn All women are beautiful released in 1984, shared the life of Cri-Cri, but this story is now more topical. Frank Michael has indeed entrusted to Paris Match , have new life with some Nathalie , ” a beautiful woman he did not interfere in his career ,” say our colleagues.
He also mentions his daughter Sandra, who ” lives in a pretty house in the same street as him “, in the outskirts of Liege. Close to her daughter, the crooner however not saying the show ” very often ” .
An interview in which he said that devout Catholic talk about the other woman in his life, his beloved mother Anna, ill for several years. ” Faith always helped me to hold. Right now, I live a painful situation with Alzheimer mom that I love . She recognizes me less and less. And God helps me through this ordeal , “he said with emotion.
Frank Michael also mentions his 70 years he will celebrate on May 7 : ” Yes! It does not bother me, as long as health is there, everything is fine. When I see my old school friends, I recognize them anymore. As for me, nobody knows me give an age. It is perhaps thanks to my father who, at 88, still had not aged a bit! “