DEATH OF JACQUES HIGELIN THE ARTIST

« FALLEN FROM THE SKY » AND  « CHAMPAGNE»

The family did not want to communicate about the causes of his death. Father of three children artists - singer Arthur H, singer Izia Higelin, and director Kên Higelin - he leaves behind twenty albums that have marked the French song, like BBH 75 (1974), Alert the babies or the diptych Champagne for everyone ... / ... Caviar for the others released in 1979.

At once a whimsical mountebank, a flamboyant poet, this unrepentant dreamer advanced in life "with an open heart, a head elsewhere, in a state of weightlessness" .

But mostly free. For 50 years, he has crossed our discography landscape of rock, folk, experimental or song ... flying words, melodies, rhythms, sounds, facetious or wild like a thoroughbred.

Always in reverse of all this gravity which plumbs the ambient air.

Poet surge, generous, committed, Jacques Higelin has been the author of such hits as Pars, Champagne or Fallen from the sky.The incarnation of the revival of the French song.

At Jacques Higelin, everything was allowed, especially happiness. There was a time, in his debut, where he played the dandy rocker. At the age of 43, at the time of rock, which prevented him from becoming an adult, he sang: "Hey / I was born in a spasm / in a big blazing fire / the belly of my mother spit / a kernel of pleasure / and I have / never lost / the taste of / that ". As the years passed, his kingdom was peopled with simple melodies. Close to a certain lightness. Like Charles Trenet, of course, singer of an era forever gone, of which Jacques will probably remain the only one ...

Born in 1940, he began his artistic career at the theater in the early 60s, before meeting musicians Areski and Brigitte Fontaine, with whom he embodied a revival of French song in the mid-sixties.

Passing from poetry to rock with the same ease, he had celebrated in October 2016 his fifty years of career with Higelin 75, his last album to date. His ultimate album, seems marked by long titles like this striking Timetable on the time spent and the "loveliness of life", or even the shocking J'fume who scans the inevitable decadence;

Higelin has always revolted, and in some of his songs he mentions problems of society, undocumented migrants, and economic difficulties, and has repeatedly engaged himself with the homeless and fixed. He was one of those artists on the Left. who, like Barbara, Renaud or Maxime le Forestier, invest in humanitarian concerts.