Stromae michel drucker biography

-"L'Été indien" is a Franco-Quebec television program presented by Michel Drucker and Julie Snyder, recorded in 2014 from the Old Port of Montreal (in Canada). It is broadcast in France on F... Read all-"L'Été indien" is a Franco-Quebec television program presented by Michel Drucker and Julie Snyder, recorded in 2014 from the Old Port of Montreal (in Canada). It is broadcast in France on France 2, in Quebec on TVA and in the world on TV5 Monde. The Indian summer is the first Fr... Read all-"L'Été indien" is a Franco-Quebec television program presented by Michel Drucker and Julie Snyder, recorded in 2014 from the Old Port of Montreal (in Canada). It is broadcast in France on France 2, in Quebec on TVA and in the world on TV5 Monde. The Indian summer is the first Franco-Quebec summer talk show presented by a duo of well-known animators from both sides of... Read all

On a Sunday chat show called Vivement dimanche, a staple of French television since the late 1990s, Belgian-Rwandan singer Stromae drifts and staggers onstage. He’s performing ‘Formidable’, a song of regret and disappointment – disappointment funnelled into aggression aimed at the happiness and hopes of passers-by. He makes an unnervingly convincing show of drunkenness: the aimlessness punctuated by sudden jerky purpose; the precarious centre of gravity; the grand, wobbling gestures; the slightly rolling eyes.

He stumbles down the stage steps, into the studio audience, and fixes on the two men watching from the sofas: Michel Drucker, the show’s long-time presenter, and his guest, the French-Algerian actor Dany Boon. Zeroing in on them, just as an agitated drunk latches on to whoever swims into view, he addresses the song to them, mocking their optimism, their luck, and reminding them of the truth: that love dies, that life is suffering.

He lunges over to sit down next to Drucker, who shifts slightly in his seat, alarmed. Dany Boon, on the other hand, is

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