Belgian singer Claude Barzotti, author of slow songs and hit songs from the 1980s like Aime Moi, Madame or Je ne t’ecrirai plus, died at his home from cancer, his manager announced on Saturday at the Agence France-Presse (AFP).
The singer-songwriter with a slightly hoarse voice “died at 69 in his bed, surrounded by his two daughters”, in a town between Brussels and Charleroi, Belgium, said Laurent Comtat. “Barzotti preferred to be called a singer of emotion rather than a romantic. He was a lively flayed man, a real sensitive, who drank to fight his stage fright, ”he said.
“I am rital and I remain so”, also sang Barzotti in Le Rital, one of his hits, where the one who was born near Charleroi on July 23, 1953 evoked his origins. His father was an Italian miner.
In the 2000s, he had participated in the nostalgic tour “Tender age and head of wood”, with Sheila, Patrick Juvet, Frank Alamo or Stone and Charden.
