Éric Cantona is definitely a jack-of-all-trades. After a career in football, he embarked on cinema, theater and painting. He is now trying his luck in music with two titles he composed himself, The friends we lost and Tu me diras, which are scheduled for release on June 2. He posted an excerpt on his Instagram account. The former athlete plays baritones.
“I’ve always thought that singing on stage should be the most intense thing to experience.” The music, which, according to the former striker “could provide an adrenaline similar to that created by sport”, he explains to Parisian .
A leap into the deep end, which Éric Cantona compares to the first time he stepped on the boards. “What I feel today is more like the months leading up to my first time in the theater, where I was immediately thrown into the deep end. It’s not fear, it’s excitement, he says. We often confuse stage fright, which paralyzes, and excitement, which galvanizes. “A feeling that has nothing to do according to him with that of playing on the ground in front of 80,000 spectators. “In football, I started young, and I gradually played in front of 100, then 500, then 1,000 people,” he said.
He has already tried his hand at music in 2012, composing “all the lyrics for the album of Rachida” [Brakni], his wife. In 2017, he also wrote those of the title Le temps passe, performed by the group Lady Sir, made up of his wife and the musician Gaëtan Roussel. “I’ve always been writing, I love the musicality and poetry of words, the freedom you find there. A writing under the pseudonym of Auguste Raurich at the time “of my great-uncle’s first name and my mother’s maiden name”, he reveals. “It was a way to double down on assumptions, to get people to take this song seriously. »
The former sportsman is also showing the film Aka , available on Netflix and the feature film The Colossus with Feet of Clay broadcast in early May on TF1. In October, he will defend his new songs during an international tour which will begin in Manchester, the city where the striker played for five years.
