In an interview at ProvenceJane Birkin discussed the development of her album Oh ! Sorry you were sleeping in which she talks about her daughter Kate Barry, who died in 2013. A difficult period that inspired two songs.
In 2013, Jane Birkin went through the most painful of trials with the death of her daughter, Kate Barry. When the latter had just moved into a building in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, she fell to her death from the 5th floor. She was 46 years old. His funeral, which took place on December 19, 2013 in the Saint-Roch church in Paris, had seen many personalities make the trip to pay him a last tribute. She rests in the Montparnasse cemetery, not far from the burial of Serge Gainsbourg.
An album developed in the midst of mourning
Currently on tour throughout France to present his 14th album Oh ! Sorry you were sleepingJane Birkin confided in an interview with Provence this Saturday, January 21. She discussed the disappearance of her daughter, a difficult moment that she also evokes in her opus released in 2020. Moreover, it was this ordeal that allowed him to put words down on paper and write two songs. “We started with the hardest songs that I had written in my diary when I was in Lyon and I was extremely devastated over Kate’s death.“, she first explained.
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And to continue:I had gone to a pharmacy where there was a small kit with everything you need for toenails. And it reminded me of Kate who was the only person in the world I knew who paid so much attention to her delicate feet.“. A Moment That Had It”flabbergasted“so much so that she was”returned to the hotel in tears“. On the spot, she had been able to count on the support of her artistic director, Philippe Le Richomme, who had recommended that she write what she felt. And it worked. “I wrote thick walls and Cigarette. It was Etienne (Daho who made the album with her, editor’s note) who found the title for Thick Walls. He fully understood the horror of going to the cemetery and imagining what is happening below.“, she confided.
