Serge Lama will be decorated with a Victory of Honor this Friday evening during the annual ceremony. A “last very pleasant hello to the profession”, he is moved.
After Maxime Le Forestier, Jane Birkin or Jacques Dutronc, it is Serge Lama’s turn to be celebrated by the Victoires de la Musique for his entire career. The singer of From adventure to adventure will receive a Victory of Honor at the 38th edition of the award ceremony, this Friday at the musical Seine.
“I am overwhelmed with emotion in the face of this last very pleasant hello that the profession sends me,” he declared on Sunday to the JDDas reported West France.
On the other hand, he will not perform for the occasion and, according to The voice of the North, should give a duplex speech. “I don’t want to show myself today, I prefer to stay on what I was”, explained the singer to the JDD. “Today, I would have to sing sitting down. It’s not what the public wants to see…Physically, I’m very damaged.”
“You have to know when to stop”
Serge Lama, who will be 80 this Saturday, announced that he would end his career last September: “I have a lot of problems inherent in the passage of time. There is a moment, you have to know how to stop rather than be stopped by things“, he explained on RTL. A few weeks later, he unveiled To likebilled as his ultimate album.
Serge Lama almost received this Victory of Honor 10 years ago, along with Sheila, Salvatore Adamo and Enrico Macias, but he declined the offer at the time:
“If they had come to give it to me at the Olympia, where I sing at the same time, it would have made me happy, he explained to the Parisian. But to give us four Victories at the same time, it gives the impression of being in a pack of old ones that we get rid of. It’s almost humiliating.”
