Singer-songwriter Gérald de Palmas, 55, revealed in 1994 with the hit Sur la route (revelation of the year at the Victoires de la Musique) announced on Tuesday October 10 his decision to end his singing career due to a “recurring voice problem.”
“I thank the people who have followed me for almost 30 years and who have allowed me to do this job in very good conditions (…) Unfortunately, a recurring voice problem prevents me from having a voice constant. For recording, it’s not annoying but for concerts and promotion, it’s quite unbearable. I see myself forced to end my career in this way,” he said in a video published on his social networks.
Gérald de Palmas adds, however, that he will release one last studio album on November 10, the 8th since his debut, Under a Lead Sun. A first extract, Personne, was published at the end of the summer. “Everything is fine. I am happy with my career. I had a great career,” he added, specifying however that this voice problem “does not prevent him from working for others, nor from recording something from time to time”.
Rewarded with a second Victoire de la Musique for male artist of the year in 2002, the artist was distinguished twice by the NRJ Music Awards in 2002 (album of the year) and 2003 (male artist of the year). year). Gérald de Palmas started in 1985 in the south of France as part of the trio Les Max Valentin. He sings and plays bass, alongside Edith Fambuena and Jean-Louis Piérot, who continued the adventure without him under the name of Valentins, before becoming sought-after collaborators, from Bashung to Daho via Moiossec or Zazie .
After On the Road, he experienced a crossing of the desert from which he emerged thanks to the success of J’en rêve encore, whose lyrics are by Jean-Jacques Goldman, or Tomber co-written with Maxime Le Forestier and covered in English by Céline Dion . Gérald de Palmas wrote the song Marie for Johnny Hallyday, which remains the last great public success of the French rocker.