I am moved to learn that Guy Béart has just left us.
The one who sang: “The first who speaks the truth, he must be executed” had its first arms in Parisian cabarets more than sixty years ago.
The truth, the living water and so many others have long been part of the best known and most beloved French directory.
Singer «with texts», so good at finding the right notes, the ones that give the words all their weight and all their strength, Guy Béart was also a free man, a real man.
Insensitive to fashions and reluctant to compromise when it came to defending what was dear to him, what he believed right, he leaves us songs that were also thought to be one of the charms.
He said goodbye last January at the Olympia. It was a magical moment, intense, moving, with a lot of love but also humor.
We lost a poet.
My thoughts are with his family, his daughters Emmanuelle and Eve, and his loved ones.