The song honors its dead
Werenoi's passing is a reminder that popular music artists like to remember their departed colleagues. But not always...
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The inevitable Charles Trenet, who, in these circumstances, reminds us in The Soul of Poets what posterity is like in popular music: songs outlive artists, whether they died long after their first hours of glory or were cut down in the middle of their careers.
Werenoi's passing at the age of 31 on Saturday, May 17, naturally sparked the usual meditations, aggravated among fans by the exercise of listening to his work again to find premonitory signs. As for Werenoi, it wasn't very difficult...
In the first episode of These songs that are in the news this weekend, you will hear excerpts from:
Charles Trenet, The Soul of Poets, 1951
Werenoi, Omega, 2024
Werenoi, Colosseum, 2025
Werenoi and Gims, Piano, 2025
Niro, Bawemonami, 2015
IAM, Feeling, 2021
Youssoupha, Come, 2012
Pierre Louki, We weren't made for you to leave us, 2004
Pierre Desproges, Last Wishes, 1984
Sarclo, On the death of Pierre Bache-lait, 2006
Eddy Mitchell and Jacques Dutronc, At the Lutetia bar, 2003
Maxime Le Forestier, The Visit, 1988
Joel Favreau, The Visit, 2001
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