Bernard Chérèze left us after a long and very courageous fight against the disease. He was 54 years old.
Director of Music of France Inter for nearly fifteen years, Bernard Chérèze had made his debut in 1981, participating with passion in the great adventure of free radios. He then joined the public service, never to leave it again, and introduced more and more listeners to the artists he loved and knew how to make them loved. He was thus one of the major actors of the renewal of French song by allowing many unknown today famous to make a name for himself.
Bernard Chérèze will also be remembered by the listeners of France Inter as the inventor and organizer of the major concerts of Radio France’s Studio 104, which saw Carlos Santana, REM, Joe Cocker, Robert Plant, Peter Gabriel, Norah Jones, Manu Chao…
He left us as he prepared to take on a new challenge as artistic and programming director of RF8, Radio France’s future music platform. He was a free man who knew admirably how to share his love of all music and talents.