Retirement, where he lives, his children, origins, age… everything you need to know about the singer
At 76 years old, Louis Chedid is still as active as ever. And for good reason, he has just released his 18th studio album and is a guest in “A Sunday in the Country”. Here are its secrets.
This Sunday 1er December 2024, Louis Chedid is a guest on the show A Sunday in the countryside, hosted by Frédéric Lopez on France 2. The opportunity to (re)discover the journey of the singer who is preparing to go on tour again with his new album Dreamer, Dreamer released on November 15. Here’s everything you need to know.
What are the origins of Louis Chedid?
Louis Chedid was born on January 1, 1948 in Ismailia, Egypt. But the singer, who arrived in France at the end of the 1940s, is of Lebanese and Syrian origin. From an ordinary childhood and an average education, Louis Chedid nevertheless keeps the memory of a significant encounter: that with a guitar found around the corner of the family cellar, in Paris, the city in which he had lived with his family since age of three years.
On Europe 1, he returned to this nostalgic period. “I was 11-12 years old, I had gone down into the cellar for something else, I don’t remember what. And I saw this guitar which was lying on top of a cupboard and which only had three strings instead of six (…) What I liked was opening the mirrored wardrobe in my room and looking at myself in the mirror playing.” Louis Chedid first studied cinema in Brussels and was a trainee editor in the 1970s. Then, music came to him. He released his first album, Beginningsin 1973.
Where does Louis Chedid live?
A good part of the year, Louis Chedid lives in Paris. It must be said that the singer considers himself “Parisian at heart” and has therefore settled in the 14th arrondissement of the capital, he told the newspaper. The Parisian.
But in the summer, Louis Chedid lives in the South of France. In 2010, he bought a house in Vaucluse, a half-hour drive from Bouc-Bel-Air, a town where his parents owned a residence for a long time before selling it. Louis Chedid lives precisely in Lourmarin, France Bleu tells us. “I associated the south of France with the good life“, he confided.
Who are Louis Chedid’s children?
Louis Chedid is the father of four children who have careers in the artistic field. If we know Mathieu Chedid (born in 1971) alias the singer -M- for his flamboyant and popular career, Joseph (born in 1986) and Anna alias Nach (born in 1987), also have their own musical projects that they are developing.
As for Émilie (born in 1970), it is in directing and cinema that she evolves. The father described as “deeply sensitive, human, generous, intelligent”, by his daughter Anna, at the microphone of Europe 1, is proud of what he transmitted to them. During the same show, the singer confided “That means that they had a not too negative image of the ‘commander’ but I didn’t push them, neither of them, to make music. They saw me making it, so obviously, It influences. There is a desire too.”
Note that Louis Chedid was married twice, he married Emma Chedid-Advenier for the second time.
Louis Chedid close to retirement?
In 1986, Louis Chedid had a near-death experience due to “from an amoeba to the liver” And, Since then, he has enjoyed life to the fullest. Thus, retirement does not seem to be a project for the singer who will notably be on the stage of the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, in Paris, from December 13.
As for death, obviously he thinks too. “I hope this happens as late as possible. But I’m getting cooler and cooler with it. I’m 16 years old in my head, I’m a real geek, I have a gaming computer… And then I had a near-death experience in 1986, because of an amoeba in my liver, and since then I’ve been sure there is life after. I sing it, why should everything be transformed and not women and men?“, he declared to Le Parisien.
