Known for his outspokenness, the popular Eddy Mitchell once again demonstrated it when he was the guest of Ophélie Meunier in the “Journal unexpected”, on RTL. Asked about his grandchildren, he bluntly evoked his strong musical divergence with his grandson DJ. Reacting to the news, he also tackled Jean-Luc Mélenchon…
four days before theatrical releaseA small miracle, a film directed by Sophie Boudre and in which Eddy Mitchell plays a role, the 80-year-old singer was on Saturday January 21, 2023 the guest of Ophélie Meunier on RTL. For almost an hour, the interpreter of Water-based mint color returned to the news, his rich career, but also to his family.
Eddy Mitchell: his grandson is also in music
Usually on the reserve about his private life, the rocker indulged in amazing confidences. While the host of Unexpected log questioned him about his grandchildren, the famous singer confessed bluntly his difference in musical tastes with his 28-year-old grandson, DJ. “Musically we have completely different opinions. (…) He does techno and it’s not my field at all. I can’t listen to this“he launched, adding despite everything not wanting “to be incorrect”.
Eddy Mitchell, however, says he is close to him, as well as to his three children who have the same love as him for rock’n’roll and more broadly American music. This is particularly the case of Maryline, his 41-year-old second daughter, who leads her own rock band called Maryline and the family. “This music, it was my father who made me discover it“, told the one who is now 56 years old in the columns of Nice morning. In 2017, the singer had collaborated with her for her album titled The same tribe.
Eddy and Pamela, two children very close to their father
His eldest sonEddy Moine, named in homage to singer Eddie Constantine, has took the path of journalism and specialized in cinema. Aged 60, he also co-signed, with his father, the autobiography of the artist: The Dictionary of my life. “Despite our close proximity, I still discovered things while writing this book with him” explained Eddy Moine during an interview In the Sunday newspaper in 2020. His youngest daughter, Pamela, 56born of a second union, would have, like Maryline – although more discreet – inherited musical talent from his father. She was also lucky to have the late Johnny Hallyday as godfather, whom Eddy Mitchell has always considered a brother.
With Eddy Mitchell, Jean-Luc Mélenchon also takes it for his rank
Visibly in great shape during this exchange with Ophélie Meunier, the singer and lyricist also attacked Jean-Luc Mélenchon for his participation in the demonstration of young people against the decried pension reform, carried by the government of Emmanuel Macron. “Melenchon, I don’t understand what he’s doing there. He’s already retired, I guess, anyway“he blurts into the microphone.
And to continue about the founder of La France Insoumise, who intends to participate in all the strike days against the pension reform, also denounced by several stars in a forum: “I don’t see what it has to do with young people.” According to him, the mobilization against the pension reform must remain a social issue and must not be taken up by politicians.
The singer, nicknamed Schmoll, is not the only one to have Mélenchon in his sights, his colleague Michel Sardou too! “He talks bullshit anyway!“, he recently tackled on BFMTV.
