Exclusively Nathalie Lermitte, artist: “Édith Piaf was an eternal in love with love”

The music that the national artist of France has left behind passes the linguistic barrier, is more than art, is a tribute to love, brought to life, relevant to anyone, regardless of the country.

Nathalie Lermitte (58 years old), one of the largest French artists in the present, conquered the entire planet with the show-tribute to the unmistakable Édith Piaf. Considered the biggest francophone success in the world, played with the house closed on Broadway and in the showrooms in over 50 countries, “Piaf! The Show “has exceeded sales of over one million tickets. The show has enjoyed a special success last year in Bucharest and, at the request of the public, will return to Romania even Mărțișor, at the Metropolitan Circus in Bucharest, thanks to the organizers from Emagic. The Romanian spectators will be able to relive the story of the largest French singer of all time in an exceptional new scenery, which will transport them on the streets of Paris with its timeless pieces, which have enchanted the public worldwide. Interpreted by talented Nathalie Lermitte and designed and directed by Gil Marsala, “Piaf! The Show “is unanimously considered by the close ones of Édith Piaf the most beautiful tribute ever brought to the singer’s career.

Nathalie Lermitte, one of France’s most appreciated artists, started her career in 1984, at 18, knowing a lightning success.

She was born into a family of musicians and began to sing from the age of six in her father’s band, and at eighteen she released the first album “Tu es Tout Ceut J’aime”, two extracts on single being sold in over 400,000 copies. The homonymous song was noted by the French radio stations, which began to broadcast it frequently, thus launching the artist’s national career. The song continued its career registering numerous soundtracks for television series and animations, and 1989 marked the artist’s beginnings in the musical theater, being asked to play in the famous show “Starmania” for three years on the Marigny Theater stage, and then in an international tour concluded in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The artist’s career continued with a series of musicals in which, most of the times, he played the role of Édith Piaf, culminating with Piaf! The Show, considered the biggest tribute to Piaf.

In an emotional interview exclusively given for “Weekend Adevărul”, Nathalie Lermitte spoke about her beginnings in music and invaluable help she received from the great singer France Gall, but especially about her time with Édith Piaf. This year’s tournament is even more impressive, given its significance: the 110th anniversary of the birth of the unmistakable Piaf.

While you were only 9 years old, the press in the Picardia region is already dedicating a first article, with a premonitory title: “Nathalie: a future market?“. How did you feel thisa resemblance? Made you think of a music career on the footsteps of the unique Édith Piaf?

Indeed, I was 9 years old then and I think I didn’t realize the importance of the article. Instead, I can say that I did not want to become a new Édith Piaf, because I already realized that only one was Édith Piaf, a unique, extraordinary voice. Instead, that article made me realize that I wanted to sing and play my life, that’s why I was sure.

Two months before
BAquause scheduled for June 1984, you have been excluded from high school because the director
INSTITUTION Consider you spend too much time on television plates and especially to sing Variets. What was your defense in front of this old spirit?

It was really a shock and I realized especially that varieties, especially for that man, represented something superficial. Which upset me and annoyed me, but at the same time, motivated me a lot. And maybe than that director I took the baccalaureate, because I prepared myself, and his reaction gave me the necessary strength despite the fact that I was often present on the television plates.

Mentor at the beginning of the road

In 1988 shortly after a first missed audition for “Starmania ”(Musical, OpereA-rock), convinced of your talent, the sea

singer France Gall will offered the opportunity to work together for a week. How it was for you that experience?

It was something incredible. Often, when I remember that week I prepared with her I tell me I dreamed, because it was really incredible. France Gall took me under his wing. I worked with both her and Michel Berger (NE – singer and composer, France Gall’s husband until his death, in 1992) for a week, face to face. I prepared for “Starmania” alone with her. It was a truly privileged moment. I must confess that for me, who had a solo singer’s career, “Starmania” and the fact that France Gall took me under his wing made me realize that I love the musical theater. And now I can say that I thank France Gall interpret the role of Édith Piaf all over the globe, because she revealed my musical theater.

In 1996, after first you refused, after three weeks of reflectionC TII, you finally agreed to interpreted

on Édith Piaf in a show. What was the main reason that convinced you to take this step?

There were several reasons. I remembered myself, when I was only 4 years old and I had a shock listening to the market-created extremely intense and special emotions. There were also a little spiritual reasons, a little personal, including my grandmother’s relationship. It was somehow a click, something supernatural, above me, despite my fears and doubts. This choice has changed my life.

“I feel complete on stage”

You performed the gorgeous song “Hymne à l’amour “and in duet with Céline Dion, in a television set. It was not something provided, the moment was improvised and very exciting. How aand lived This unique duet?

Yes, it was a unique, absolutely improvised moment, which I took as a gift from heaven, as a gift of the moment. We must live the present, we must live every moment, this is the secret of life. In French “Présent” also means a gift. And even so, the present is a gift we have to enjoy.

Why is your home scene?

Because on stage I feel complete, I feel safe on stage. Because I simply feel all over there.

The song, beyond the wounds

You have documented yourself enormously related to Édith Piaf’s life. What detail in life did you impress you the most?

There are many details about her life that impressed me. But it is a primordial thing that excited me much and in depth: for me, Piaf is an eternal child. When I look at his photos, from youth to the end, I see a child look. I see in those photos a child’s look with a source of bottomless love and which all life has tried to fill this source with love. Piaf was an eternal in love with love, and that excited me enormously. That child excited me. I think Piaf has tried all his life to heal Édith’s wounds.

It is Édith

Piaf the voice of your life?

What a beautiful question! Yes, Édith Piaf is the voice of my life.

A show for eternity

“Piaf! The Show ”is considered unanimously by close friends singer
justice The most beautiful tribute to the great artist. How would you describe your The show?

It is a deeply emotional journey along the songs of édith Piaf, songs that she himself placed in our hearts. That’s why the show is a deep trip.

You have already performed in Romania last year. How did you feel the emotions of the Romanian public?

I love the Romanian public, I feel a special connection, a soul connection that excites me. I look forward to returning to Bucharest on March 1.

If you should associate Romania with a verse from the songs of édith Piaf, which would be thatA?

“Dieu réunit ceux qui s’Ament” (trad. – “God brings together those who love each other”).