Translation of the interview published on IdolesMag of November 27th, 2010.

ART SULLIVAN'S INTERVIEW

Last month, we had proposed you an interminable interview of Art Sullivan. To celebrate his 40 years of career, at the beginning of January (December 15th in digital) will take out a new compilation of its biggest tubes, included a remix of "Tout est dans tout" and of the long version of " Fan Fan Fan ". Art received us again to speak to us about this album about event...

IdolesMag: Was it important for you to mark the occasion of your 40 years of career with an album?

Art Sullivan: For an artist, it's always important. Whether it's to celebrate 40 years, 20 years, 10 years, or even one year. When I began to sing, I always said to myself that the following year it would be finished. And it has been 40 years since I'm always somewhere... And after 40 years, that a compilation stands out (I took out one to Portugal, but it's not available in France), for me that remains a mystery...

Of what does it compose this compilation?

The former successes of the 70's. There is also a title in long version, "Fan Fan Fan", as well as a song in the Portuguese and a title enough little known by the public, I think. It is a question of "Je te aime".

About what does it speak about this song?

It's one very very attractive song, but a little bit special. In French, we don't say "Je teaime". But I had thought of this form by thinking about the love. The extremely joined love the hatred somewhere. The love can very fast fall over. And we say "Je te hais". This song speaks about the fact that I'm always in the position of "Je te aime", but I love you so much whom I'm there almost in "Je te hais". It was my minute of philosophy (roars of laughter)

We also find the remix on 2010 of "Tout est dans tout".

Completely. It's one of great surprises of this compilation! It's a young boy of Paris, Alexx, that had asked me if he could have the bands of this song with the voices to part. He wanted to remix the title. I was very amazed that he chooses this song, moreover. It's the recent song which isn't very known of the general public. I would have much more understood that he asks me for the bands of " Petite fille aux yeux bleus" or a song of the time which had much more success. But he found this song and its text so beautiful that it was the one that he wanted to remix. I said myself " Why not? " He had the so dynamic air , very go-ahead type and so full of spirit that I crossed him bands. What did we risk at the bottom? Nothing! I was very honest on the other hand with him. I said to him that if that didn't please me, that wouldn't go farther. After some weeks, he sent me what he had made...

Well then?

And indeed, I was pleasantly surprised. It's, naturally, not my musical style, but I was surprised with the result and with the quality of its remix!

There is also a maxi version of "Fan Fan Fan".

It's the song which I recorded a little before I stop. The disco arrived and I had recorded this song with the arranger of Boney M in Frankfurt. We had made a radio's version, shorter, and a long version for the discotheques.It went out on maxi one white vinyl. It was very attractive for time. And it's this version which refinds on the compilation.

"Fan Fan Fan" isn't a part of symbolic songs of your directory. Does that please you to find it on the record?

I'm going to be very honest with you... No! (Roars of laughter) I'm rather a romantic singer. I like having feelings in songs. "Fan Fan Fan", I took out it when the disco arrived, but it isn't the music which I like listening to.

For the fans, on the other hand, the idea is very good to rerelease a maxi version which everybody doesn't have it at home.

Naturally, and it's all the interest of this compilation that brings some rarities. And then, I know that "Fan Fan Fan" is appreciated by many of my fans, it's the case to say it! And then, this maxi version has the interest also to be rather rare.

Do we find the original recordings?

Yes. They are all the original versions. Except "Ensemble". I had made in 2004 to have fun a version "bossa" of this title. While on the original version, I sing the very high title, on this version "bossa", I sing very low, with a totally different arrangement. Thus somebody who knows the song can be surprised by this new version. He will be surprised pleasantly or unpleasantly, moreover... Each is free or not to love this version "bossa"! (Laughter) But I asked Alexx whether it's the one who appears on the compilation.

Are there concerts planned next year?

Some concerts are planned in Portugal, with Hugo. But not here. You know, I have turned never a lot, even in the 70s. I began only in 1976 and I stopped in 1978. Thus...

But that tickles you all the same from time to time to go back up on stage at home, in France and in Belgium?

By phase, yes. It's little as the appetite. Sometimes I want it, sometimes not. But what is often sad in the stage, it's the lack of means. The record goes badly, everybody knows it. But the scene doesn't go so good no more...Many shows today deceive on bands, what is less funny. Because we can improvise nothing, we have to follow the band. With musicians, we can make what we want, while on bands, it's nothing of better than a karaoke... Thus, if it's to make a show on band, I'm much less ready!...

What are your other projects for 2011?

There, I'm very very concentrated on the Hugo's new album.

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Translation of the interview published in IdolesMAg of October 4th, 2010.

Art Sullivan receives us in his office, in its house of the Brussels suburb. Jacques Verdonck, his producer, is present too. During this interview, we shall return with Art on its route. He will also explain to us why he left the front of the scene at the end of the 70's. Today, Art Sullivan is an enormous star in Portugal where it fills rooms equivalent to our Zénith... He will also explain us the very favorite which he had for a young french-portuguese singer. His name is Hugo, hold his first name! Art Sullivan will celebrate next year its 40 years of career, but also its 60 years! Meeting with a beautiful and intelligent artist;-)

IdolesMag: you go to celebrate your 40 years of career next year. If you please(do not mind), we are going to redraw these 40 years in main lines before speaking about your current events...

Were you what we call a baby singer? Art Sullivan: I really had the passion to sing towards 12/13 years old. To give you an example, I composed in this time " Petite fille aux yeux bleus ". She wasn't called still like that, but I remember although I had composed the melody in my bed. I had a small transistor and I listened to the music in my bed under covers... At the bottom of myself, I knew that I would be a singer one day.

You composed on a guitar or a piano? Neither of them! (laughter) to say to you the truth, I know no note of music theory. I have no music group. But the composition, you know, at the bottom, it's in the head... Thus, as soon as I had a melody in my mind, I recorded it not to lose it. And today, it's still like that! Later, I give this melody to a friend who transcribes it to me in musical notes. I am a composer, but I don't play an instrument. Finally yes! If you want that I play you "Frère Jacques" on a piano, I shall arrive certainly, but you won't should ask to me for it much more! (laughter)

And in your family, we sang? In no way. I come from aristocrats' family, as we say. Thus, towards 14/15 years old, when I said to my parents that I wanted to become a singer, it was not really of their taste! In the family, it was necessary to become a solicitor or a doctor. But singer you imagine! Except maybe my mother, who was a little more revolutionary. Her, she wanted that I made what would make my happiness. I had no circle of acquaintances which predisposed me to go towards the music.

Had you idols when you were child? Ah yes! I was very fan of France Gall and its" Sacré Charlemagne "! And then, my real catch for the music, it was in 1965. I heard an evening to the radio "Aline" of Christophe". There, I was little as a priest who would have heard the voice of God to come to speak to him. By listening to this song, I drowned myself in the music.

Remember first times when you sang, maybe not professionally, but seriously, let us shall say ourselves. At 15 years. I participated at little competitions, radio-hooks, fancy-fair. I sang "Aline", " Capri,c'est fini", " La plage aux romantiques ", things like that.

Then, what happens? You know, to want to become a singer and to be a singer, there are kilometers. But, as I was fascinated by Christophe, I went to see him in 67 or 68. As he had no fan-club, I suggested him going up his. He agreed. Thus I began to print a stencyled magazine which went out every month. At first, I had 35 members. But I persuaded Christophe that I had more than 2000 of it! (roars of laughter) It wasn't by snobbery, but as it was my idol, I wanted that everything is perfect and I wanted whether it's "big"! And I remember very well in the time when Hervé Vilard, who also had a fan-club, was very surprised that Christophe has so many members! Thus he contacted me and wanted that I also take care of his... I had 18 years old in the time, I was full of energy! In the time, it was Jacques Verdonck [Editor's note: which was present during our interview] who was the editor of Hervé Vilard. And a day, Hervé Vilard, who knew that I liked singing and composing, comes to Brussels to record a TV program. And he presents the " small young " to Jacques. He told me to send him a cassette and that he wouldn't miss to listen to hit... How we always say in fact! Thus I sent him a cassette and he called me back! On February 14th (I shall always remember it), I arrived in studio. And at the end of around thirty seconds, they said to me "Stop". I said to myself that it was done... But not, he said to me that he signed me for three years!

What that made you? Very sincerely, over the moment, not much! (laughter) We weren't in a star system, but I was very satisfied.

And later, you leave to London... Yes, 15 days later, we leave for London and we find Charles Blackwell, the arranger of Tom Jones, among others. It's him too who made "Love me, Please love me" of Polnareff. We record a model. We bring in of London a few days later, and the model is sent to two or three persons in Paris. After 24 hours, Carrère phones by saying that he wanted to sign me for 7 years. And in this time I hadn't taken out of record yet. (laughter)

It was another time!... Effectively (roar of laughter)

How did you choose your pseudonym? My real name, it's Marc Liénard van Lindt de Jeude... It was complicated enough to impose this name! Personally, I wanted to be called "Sebastian", don'tt ask me why! Carrère, him, had proposed me "Art" as first name. I had never heard first name like that in Europe. There was indeed Art Garfunkel, but it wasn't a common first name. In the time, Gilbert O' Sullivan had just takenout a record. I liked this name " Sullivan ". Thus, and so was born "Art Sullivan"...

At this moment, you take out your first record... Completely. "Ensemble » went out in June. The title bludgeined in July and in August by RTL. And at the end of August, sales were catastrophic. Everybody said it to me: with a bludgeoning as we had had it was very badly left. Then, in September, as by miracle, it was 10 or 15 000 sold recordsa day!

You live it how? Everything arrived so fast...Unconsciously. To give you an example... A few months later, I get royalties. I had sold all the same more than 300 000 records. I shall always remember, I was placefrom Brouckère to Brussels and I looked at a beautiful chain in a shop window. I found it magnificent. It cost 25 000 Belgian francs of this time... And it's there that I understood that I had them on my bank account. It's there that I realized that I exercised a job and that I was paid for...

You always lived outside the system in fact. Completely.

Tubes are very quickly linked. Did you have time to continue to compose? To tell the truth, I had a train beforehand. I had already quite a lot of already composed and registered songs. When "Ensemble")went out, the title" Adieu sois heureuse " which will go out on one year later was already ecorded. I'm not going to learn you by saying to you that in the time we took out one 45 turns every 4 or 5 months. Thus, us, in production, we had at least a good year beforehand.

You didn't certainly have time to record a lot in the time. If yes... You know, I'm someone rather discreet. I didn't like showing myself in the fashionable discotheques which " the all Paris " frequented... I went to Paris to make my work, and as soon as it was ended, I returned to Brussels to my mother's home, with my brothers and my dogs...

You always lived in Brussels, then? Yes, always. Not in this house, but I lived in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre during 35 years... I have never lived in Paris. Carrère wanted that I show little myself, that I play the star... But, that, that interested me in no way.

We return always to the same thing... All the side "glitter" and star system has never interested you.In no way!

In the time , you turn a lot? Very good question... In the time, I sell records"like little breads". The " Petite fille au yeux bleus" arrive at 700 000 copies, "Adieu sois heureuse" in 600 000, "Vivre d'amour" in 600 000 also. Every time, I make only a TV program or two, at the very most... I appear a little bit in the press. But records are very well sold. And as I'm a composer, I make a very good living... And thus, I wanted to make rounds. Carrère wasn't completely for! (laughter) He asks me to wait, finding that it was too early. But as I have enough income, I don't grow to the load. Besides, he had given me an argument which defended itself: I had two or three successes, thus, not of which like on a scene during 1 hour 30. Thus, I didn't turn a long time. Then, as one goes along, I felt that I needed the scene. You know, I had no contact with anybody in the time. I continued to frequent my friends the district and my family, quite as before. Thus, I wanted to make official receptions...

There are good memories, these first official receptions? There are the best! It's there that I understood my job. The real job of the singer, it's to be on stage. I also like the studio, because we create there. But we create in front of a microphone. It's little like when we sing to the television, we sing in front of a camera. When we are on stage, I cannot explain it to you, but we feel the feelings which pass. They are two facets of the job. They are complementary.

In 1978, you put a brake in your career in France. Why? I don't put a brake, in fact... I stop! It's the period that the Disco began to arrive. In the media, there was a shape of elitism. We heard say that "Je t'aime mon amour pour toujours ", it was old-fashioned. Caution, it wasn't the public who said it, we heard it in the spheres of the media... Even Claude François began to be taxed by old-fashioned. Even if I had sung the more intellectual songs, I had the seal of" stupid singer "... I felt it. I was 28 years old, I said to myself that I had no more this fire or this passion to sing. I wanted to pass to other thing. Thus I stopped and we didn't hear any more about me. I made all the same a disco song, but the goldfish was not good any more in its jar.

You begin then a career in the documentary. Why this choice? I was always fascinated by the documentary. We are in 78/79, the television wasn't the same that today. I smelt that the television was going to move. And thus, I created a concept: make invisible cameras with stars. I knew that that was going to cost a lot of money, thus, we visited co-producers. We saw some, of which one in Canada which hurried to develop the idea!...

It's that the idea was good...You made many documentaries on the royal families. Yes, a lot. I didn't realize documentaries for France or Belgium. A documentary, it's little as a song... A song is going to cost, for example, 10 000 euros. But that it takes out only in Belgium or all over the world, it will always cost 10 000 euros. Thus, so much make it for the largest number of people. It's the same thing for a documentary. As I knew that even the republicans were interested in the royal families, I realized quite a lot of documentaries on them. But I also realized reports on big cities, in particular one on Sydney, a little bit before olympics. Sydney, it's a fabulous city. When you realize that two hundred years ago, there was nothing...

The music didn't miss to you during all these years? To tell the truth, I wasn't so remote from the music because it's me which signed all the credits or the background music. I didn't sing, but I stayed in my musical universe. I didn't any more want to sing when I stopped, but the music stayed my passion. I have never stopped composing.

Why not to have written for the others then? I made it, but little. I wrote a song for Liliane Saint-Pierre, a Flemish singer [Editor's note: " Als je gaat "] and for Timothy also [Editor's note: "C'est la vie, c'est joli"]. You know, I can admit it to you, I'm a big lazy person... Thus, I compose little, just when it's necessary! (laughter) On principle, we don't command the creation. I cannot say myself " Today, I'm going to compose a song ", no...

In 2006, "Tout est dans tout" benefited of one remix dance. It isn't necessarily the register in which we wait for you... (roars of laughter) And it's going to have there even worse! It was still nice dance... Because there, at the beginning of the year is going to go out a remix of "Tout est dans tout" very very remixed! (laughter) I was very surprised when these young parisians contacted me about this project. I ignored that I had fans so young and dynamic! They just asked me for the track with my voice. And they remixed it I have just received her it and I can say to you that it's very well! That changes... That moves!... It's a remix planned for the discotheques.

You like this kind of remix? To tell the truth, I don't like the discotheques! But I admit that their remix is very well made. I wouldn't be honest by saying to you that it's the music which touches me.

When and how was born the adventure of this album "Tout est dans tout"? At the end of the 90s, the CD arrived. And I had no available record in CD. Ariola came to find me to wonder the authorization to take out a compil of my former songs. I didn't think that that would work, and, I'm going to say to you the strict truth, I accepted essentially to have a CD of my own songs (laughter) Thus, they took out the compilation at first in Belgium. We sold 60 000 copies. Six months later, they took out a volume 2 which less sold, almost 30 000 all the same, but this one contained much fewer tubes. Further to this adventure, Warner France contacted me to take out a compilation in France. We sold 180 000 all the same. And there, I realized that full of people had remained faithful to the memory of my songs. We even asked me to produce me several times in show.

You doubted it, that the public had remained in you faithful? I thought that I was forgotten. Really. You know, I had stopped in 78/79, it had been 15 years since more nobody heard about me... It's a generation! But to return to the shows that I gave... The public naturally came to listen to my songs, and I realized that when I sang, I saw in the eyes that it was as if they opened a photo album. The song re-transposed them in their 16 years or their 18 years. I realized that songs were bound to memories. All this restored me envy to sing again and to remake a record...

You took back "Mourir ou vivre" on this album. Why? Because it's the song which I like very much. As I just explained it to you right now, towards my 14 / 15 years, I made quite a lot of radio-hooks by taking back Hervé Vilard or Christophe. I didn't want to take back " Capri, c'est fini", because the song is too much similar to Hervé. "Mourir ou vivre" also, but to a lesser extent. Thus I wanted to take back this song by changing the arrangements of it.

It's one song which you like profoundly? Ah yes...

There is also Christophe's song on this album... Yes. "J'ai remarché". Even there, I didn't want to take back a too much known song.

It was a way, say to me if I make a mistake, to loop the loop... You had left to Paris to base the fan-club of Christophe and then you occupy you of that of the Hervé Vilard. Then on this album, you take back them both... Here we are, that's right... And the loop is not completely looped! Because for two years, I produce a young Portuguese artist, whom we are going to throw in France next year.

It's Hugo. Completely. And on the album, there will be a take back of Christophe "Les marionnettes".

Before speaking about Hugo, I would like to speak a few about this enormous success that you have in Portugal today... As I explained it to you, I was very surprised to see that so many people still liked my songs here in Belgium and in France when we took out the compilation. But in Portugal, I still have also a great deal of success. I was a "star" in the 70s over there. I sang in stadiums of football. To give you an example, when I played Funchal on the island of Madeira, I made 100 000 persons in 3 evenings, while the island counts only 300 000 inhabitants. A third of the island had come to see me. But in 78 when I stopped everything, I stopped over there also. And at the end of the 90s, we rereleased a compilation over there, and it was golden record very quickly.

How do you explain this attachment which the public Portuguese carries you? If there was a receipt?!...

You weren't necessarily attached to this country previously. In no way. You know, it's a little as the love. When we fall in love, we don't know why. It's an alchemy which takes place and nobody can explain it.

You give many concerts over there. Yes, when we play over there, it's in rooms of 7 or 8000 places.

You live it good to fill perform rooms so big in Portugal and not here in Belgium or in France? Ah yes, very well... And then, you know, I'm less afraid a lot of playing in front of 7 or 8000 persons that in front of 300. When you are in front of 7000 persons, you are in front of an ocean. He can arrive nothing at you, except when you really sing as a potato! (laughter) But when you sing in front of 300 persons, it's very different! Everybody is much shier.

You sing today in the Portuguese a lot. Is it phonetically? I understand little, naturally, but I sing phonetically! I also sing in German and in Spanish...

Let us return to Hugo there, how did you discover him? In the 2000s, internet became more democratic and I listened to people taking back my songs on sites of videos... Sometimes it's rather bad, but that always pleases! (laughter) Then, one day a friend tells me to look at a young Portuguese who took back "Petite demoiselle". I look. I find that not bad. I look then at his other videos, he took back Brel, Ferré, etc.... And there, I said to myself that this kid had a crazy talent. Then I contacted him. Him who lives in more than 2000 km by, you imagine yourselves although when I said to him by the telephone " Hello, it's Art Sullivan ", he didn't believe in me! Especially that over there, in Portugal, in spite of my years of absences, I remained a big star. He really believed in a joke moreover, we were an April 1st(Fools's Day)! But I said to him that the next day, I would rent the studio ICP here in Brussels and that in about ten days it would be here in Brussels to make one test in studio... I sent him plane tickets for him and his parents, he was still young in this time. As he is French-Portuguese, he has some more of friends in France, and he believed that it was those who made him a bad joke... He admitted to me later that when I hung up the telephone, he went to view videos of me on internet to see if the stamp of voice corresponded to the one that it had heard on the phone! (laughter) When he received plane tickets, he began to believe in it a little! But how he's scared of the plane, he came from Portugal to Belgium by bus! He arrived to Brussels and the same evening, we made a test for the studio. As Mister Verdonck knows very well people of the Portuguese TV, he contacted them and they came to film Hugo that same evening. He had never seen a studio of his life, and the first time which he enters studio, the Portuguese TV news is there and it passes the same evening on the antenna! Her mother and her family which had stayed over there didn't mean seeing their son on TV news... Thus, with this passage in the TV news, all the press wanted to know more about it on this fairy tale. All the television programs want him and all the press wants him... And it left like that.

And thus, during this first come in Brussels, he records how many songs? He records two songs which I had written to him. Later, as the test was concluding, we decided to record an album. An album intended at first for the Portuguese market. He returned two months later and we recorded this album, which went out in 2009. And in Portugal, that very well worked.

And now, you go to attack the French market? Completely. But for France, we are going to record an album everything in French.

It's a crazy thing this story... You can say it! In fact, he didn't look for record company. He just sang on internet purely for his pleasure. It was his passion to sing, but he didn't intend to become a singer. He sang for his friends. His parents didn't even know that he put his videos on internet.

And thus, you take some pleasure to compose for him? Yes. Many. What had struck me as soon as I heard him, it was its way to interpret songs. He doesn't sing as me, but I understood at once that what I composed could go with his voice. Thus I found in him a formidable interpreter. Musically, I refind me totally in him. Besides, we have the same musical tastes...

There is a beautiful alchemy between you two. Really. I composed him all the songs of his album. Except, naturally the take out of Christophe "Les marionnettes" and "Avec le temps"of Léo Ferré. It's him who had the idea moreover, of this take out of Ferré. He interprets in a incredible way. There is also a song written by Charles Blackwell. This song was written in English. And big surprise while he doesn't speak English, hesings very well in English also! Thus, this boy has a beautiful career in front of him...

You also recorded a duet and writes a song for a young French artist, Cyril Alexis. Effectively. But the story is rather different. One day, Cyril wrote me a letter of two pages which enormously touched me. His dream was that I write him a song. I listened a little what he made on internet. And I wrote him a song... I found that Cyril's stamp sometimes got closer to mine. But it's not the same road as with Hugo. It's not in the same context. Cyril came to look for me and Hugo, I went to seek him. A lot of people asks me for songs, I often refuse, but for Cyril I accepted because I liked what it made.

How do you find his take out of "Donne donne moi"? It's cute.

We are very far from your version! You know, we couldn't rerelease the version today which I recorded in the 70s! It's a beautiful version with his color to him. I have difficulty judging when we make occasions of my songs. Because in my head, I always have my version which trails! Not that my version is better, in no way, but let us say that I'm more used there.

Next year, thus you celebrate your 40 years of career. What surprises do you reserve us? I shall also celebrate my 60 years!! (laughter) There will be also a compilation. With certainly one or two unpublished pieces. For the rest, that has to remain a surprise... Thus, you will know about it more next year! (laughter)

Which glance do you relate to the evolution of your job? I really believe that the young people who begin today have the same heart and the same passion as us in the time. It's as the love, that doesn't move. The young people put themselves a shell today. They don't openly want to sing any more soft songs. They want more metallic, more electric things... As for the job, there would be so much to say... Everything so evolved!

That pleases you today to return on the front of the scene? Naturally. And at the bottom, the fact that i being stopped some years was certainly beneficial. Because I didn't keep a negative image in the job, the image of the small singer with kittens. Thus, this stop was beneficial...

You always composed a lot in your life, but enough little wrote as a matter of fact. Why? I write more today. But I was never really enticed by the writing. On the other hand when I compose a melody, I always give the key sentence which is going to return in the tune... But to refine the text, it isn't really my cup of tea, it isn't my real passion.

Finally, I am going to give you some words, you go to say to me what they evoke you instinctively.

-Ensemble: my first record. The first one whom I heard to the radio.

What that made for you when you hear you to the radio? Not much, in fact. (laughter)

You were untied enough from the job all the same. Untied isn't the exact term... You know when the baker made his bread and when he's going to sell it, we don't cut down the champagne! I did my job, ithat's all...

And when you held your first record in hands, that made you what? There, I was very satisfied. Any time, I had become as Christophe and Hervé Vilard! I was as my idols, I had my record. It's a very big moment. It's probably the real big moment of my career...

Tear: a feeling, that it's happy or unfortunate

Autumn: depression

Young lady:little

Portugal: the country where I shall go for all eternity.

Ocean: Portugal.

Everything: not possible.

Hugo: fairy tale.

Give: the most beautiful thing...

By IdolesMag on October 2010.

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Article published in "Dica da semana" of March 25th, 2010.

Art Sullivan dedicates an album to Portugal.


Depiction celebrates in the 70's with the song "Petite demoiselle", Art Sullivan decided to pay tribute in one of the countries which the most contributed to his success, with the album "35 anos em Portugal", which includes their success and title "Da-lhe um pouco", a duet with Hugo, the young Portuguese the career of which was sponsored by the Belgian singer.

Article published on Radio Batalha, on March 8 th, 2010.

Art Sullivan 35 years in Portugal in record.



It arrived in store today, with this record Art Sullivan intends to pay tribute in Portugal.

In 1978, Art Sullivan, in a unexpected way, decided to put an end to its singer's career to dedicate itself to the broadcasting. However, he has never stopped composing music and writing texts.

Before, in 1972, he launched "Ensemble", which it advanced in hits until become in a real success, with more than exemplary 500 miles of singles sold only in France. Belgium, Holland and particularly Portugal, are the places where has had the biggest success. Between 1972 and 1978, he sold more than 10 million records.

In 1978, he chose to create a audiovisual production company, he bets in the realization of documentaries and the educational programs.

Now, Art Sullivan decides to pay tribute in one of the countries which the most contributed to his success, editing the album " 35 anos em Portugal ", which includes, among others, the success "Petite demoiselle" and the title "Da-lhe um pouco" (in duet with Hugo), the another version of the tube "Donne, Donne-moi".

Article published in "Fundamental" on April 18th, 2009.

Art Sullivan in "Fundamental Café"

The Belgian singer of middle-of-the-road popular songs of the 70's had lunch in "Fundamental Café" on March 25th, 2009. Art Sullivan is the protagonist of a fantastic story, American dreams style, it sponsored the young Hugo Sahki.
The story of Hugo Sahki's novice career would deserve to appear in a film which would redraw an episode of American Dream, here adapted in a sort of "European Dream" based in Portugal. The young person Hugo Sahki lives with his parents to Povoa de Varzim, after 16 years of life in France. The only contact which Hugo had with the music amounted to the CD which he listened to in his bedroom at his parents or in the discotheque among which these are owners. So although it doesn't seem like it, he sang secretly to the webcam, his parents were not there when he sang, what would have made him be ashamed with shyness. The fact of taking advantage of the guarantee of its private life ally in a méga exposure which internet can offer, Hugo Sahki thus downloaded his videos on YouTube.
It did not put itself for a long time so that his version of " Petite demoiselle " arrives on the computer of... Art Sullivan. Who so liked what he heard, he contacts Hugo by e-mail, which will have put several days to believe in the luck which had chosen him. The Belgian singer liked this shape of voice and Hugo Sahki's interpretation that he offered him tickets to go to record a disk in Belgium, which is produced in the studio ICP in Brussels, one of the biggest of the kind in Europe. As if the kindness of Art Sullivan was not more than evident, the artist is always inclined to come to Portugal and to accompany Hugo Sahki in "digression" for regional radios in all the country, making value of credits which will extend in the years to come to open doors on his discovery.
Everything in depends on Art Sullivan, amazed, without the other interest evident than to see Hugo on this place where Art Sullivan includes that the voice of the young singer the merit. Art and Hugo has a relation looking like that between a father and his son sometimes it happens that they seem to be 2 brothers and the American dream was transformed, for Hugo Sahki - in a very real opportunity.

Exceptional character. Art Sullivan is an exceptional man of character and Hugo Sahki's story does not leave doubts on the unlimitedness of the spirit of the Belgian singer, the famous depiction in Portugal with songs as " Petite demoiselle ", " Donnes,donnes-moi " or " Vivre d'amour, besoin d'amour ".
His passage in Fundamental Café made understand that in spite of years crossed Art is always in the collective memory, it will pass unnoticed practically by none of the customers of the restaurant of Fundamental Café.
Hugo Sahki is happy and radiant, he makes the promotion of his album " Secret Emotions " with a weighty godfather who opens him the door of the success it Hugo deserves him for his talent and Art Sullivan even more for the nobility of his initiative.

Article published in "VIP" on October 19th, 2009.

They know for two years in the cybernetic world. Art Sullivan knew that young Portuguese sang titles on its personal blog and interpreted the famous 'Petite demoiselle' there, he reminds himself that he cried when he heard him for the first time. He decided, at once, to bet on Hugo's career and to record an album.

The coming of Art Sullivan in Portugal, is this time, so that Hugo recordsa new version of the title "Tenho medo", with the fado's guitar of José Pimentel. That is why the Belgian singer, who counts with "small means, make discover to people this music, this language and this Portuguese culture which are worth being discovered "and "integrating the fado into a more popular music, less elitist."
During these almost two years, the 20-year-old young people, who lives to Povoa de Varzim, had neither singing lessons, nor on music theory, says his mentor, to maintain his natural original. "And it is my objective, that he continues to be Hugo. He has people who say to me that he should take lessons, but I find, that his talent is innate, this emotion in its voice", he explains.

They continue to exchange their impressions, essentially, via the electronics, the singer writes melodies and he send models, Hugo writes the words. Already, the first scene of the young , he occurred to Povoa de Varzim, in front of 7500 persons. They shared the scene and according to the top of the bill, he was very good. "The public enormously loved us and Hugo very well went out there. Perceiving , that even on scene, he has manages to create a symbiosis with the public."

Art Sullivan made an exception for this young that it considers as wonder, which rarely made shows. He so liked these way of seeing things the "nostalgic glances" of the spectators, that he is going to accompany Hugo, in a small digression, next year. He has already 30 shows in the agenda in Portugal and in French-speaking countries. Hugo, who trembled with fear before rising on stage, is now "impatient". Hugo is an exception in the life of the musician, who never dedicated himself to this way of launching a new talent. "It is a motivation for me, obliging me to continue to advance" he underlines. Maybe also it is due to the big passion which he feeds for Portugal. He comes very frequently and he likes the country, particularly the zone of Cascais. "I was always received and I always keep in memory the extreme kindness and the simplicity of the Portuguese, I feel a big emotion every time I come here". As long as he wants that his ashes are scattered here: "I have already organized everything to spend my eternity in Portugal. I want that my ashes are scattered in the Portuguese coast, in the Atlantic Ocean", he says, adding "that most later, will be best".

Article published in "VIP" on October 9th, 2009.

The Belgian singer is on returning to Portugal to produce music.

ART SULLIVAN registers in the studio of RUI VELOSO.

It is usual to say to itself that in a team the winner does not move and it is it that he takes place between Art Sullivan and Hugo Sahki.

He has approximately one year, the road of the famous singer crossed that of the Hugo, young Portuguese which recorded, and revealed on YouTube, images where it sang musics of Art Sullivan. The author of "Petite demoiselle" saw him, heard him, liked and from this moment, they began to record together.

This year, he returns in Portugal to record "J'ai mal/Tenho medo" in the studios of Rui Veloso. The production of the subject is also under the responsibility of Art Sullivan.

Article published in "Correio Da Manha" on December 9th, 2009.

Music: his first album is called "Secret Emotions"

Hugo continue his path in Europe

It looks like a fairy tale, but it's a true story.
Hugo is a young person of Povoa of Varzim which lived the major part of its childhood in France, with his family. As everything the young people, he always liked singing in the bath. During his spare time, he enjoyed well putting his songs on YouTube.

Until one day Art Sullivan discovered him, until it decided to sponsor him and until, is from there, one year ago this time, he transformed it into success of sales in all Europe. To the Correio da Manha, the Belgian singer - who in the decade 70 enchanted Portugal with "Petite demoiselle" - counts on what he saw in this Portuguese.

"That amazed me that a 20-year-old young person sings songs of people as Brel and Léo Ferré... It is not common. But more than that, I felt that he had an enormous talent, a talent there which was worth being to show in the World", he says.

A phone call made all the difference. Hugo admits that, that as a rule, he doesn't believe that the luck would come to knock in its door.

"Art called me on April 1st, the day of the Lie and I thought that if it was about a joke... But it was really as a serial! It was a dream ", he says, who has just thrown his first album, "Secrets Emotions" and in spite of the title, it's question to sing in Portuguese. A thing on which Art Sullivan insists: Hugo will have no music lessons. His vocation is spontaneous. "Nobody has any technique which teaches the main part. And the main part is the talent", he concludes.

Article published in "DN ARTES" on November 11th, 2009.

The Belgian singer knew the young Portuguese on internet and produced him his first disk.
Next year, they are going to make several concerts in the country.

It is in 2008 when Hugo Sahki put on internet some videos and sang " Petite demoiselle ", the title of the biggest success of the Belgian Art Sullivan. The singers eventually know and Art Sullivan produces the first album of this young Portuguese of 20 years, native of Povoa de Varzim. Next year, the pair is going to begin a digression, with several dates for Portugal, but also for countries as France, Luxembourg and Switzerland.

" Everything began as a joke and the first time when he spoke with me, I had not almost believed ", says Hugo Sahki to DN. Art Sullivan which did not show original titles to the public during years, defined this new experience to compose for another voice than his is not "strange", but that also allows him" to discover a new way of writing songs ".

It was December 31st, 1974 when the Belgian singer was for the first time in Portugal, as guest to a program of the RTP1. From there, he became the musician very estimated of Portuguese, by having calling back DN " seven concerts that I gave to the Sports Detached house Carlos Lopes, were fantastic ". He went away from the music in the 80's, but today he says that " he does not have to look towards the past, to be able to live the future ".

Article published in "Destak" on November 17th, 2009.

The Belgian idol of the 70's, is the godfather of the young Portuguese descendant Hugo Sahki, a talent which he discovered on internet. Destak discussed with the 2 singers.

Why have you leave for 25 years your career aside?
At the end of the 70's, appeared the "disco" style and I stopped making some romantic music, what I did not like. It is for it that I stopped. For me, the music has to pass on feelings.

Now that you returned on stage with Hugo, did you like, again, relive this sensation?
I always liked this sensation. If the artist feels this happiness, he passes on it to all. I like reliving again these moments.

You return so, again, to tour (to support Hugo)?
It is as a good dish that we ate for 20 years and we return to taste him it after all this time. And live all which already crossed.

Have you new projects?
My new projects are especially for the levels of the shows and to compose for Hugo.

How did you discover Hugo?
It is two years old Hugo began to sing and to put titles on internet. One of my fans saw him and wrote on my site that it had a young person who enjoied singing on one of my songs and I did not love the version of " Petite demoiselle ". I was to see the other videos that Hugo had put on-line and I was moved by his voice. Two days later, I wrote on this site so that he contacts me and Hugo phoned me. The April 1st (Fools's Day) was in my tour to phone him and to offer him two plane tickets to come to see me.

Is the lack of the scene felt?
Yes. I am a big smoker. And precise that the scene misses me as much as my cigarettes.

Article published in the portuguese magazine "Flash"

Hugo is 19 years old, he was born in France but it has been four years since he is in Portugal. Dailymotion brought him in Brussels, to record musics of Art Sullivan.

Son of a Portuguese mother and an Algerian father, Hugo has maybe a good star in the life. That he supposed to be a simple joke, is transformed into something which will be recordings in one of the best European studios, with musics consisted by one of the faces which marked the European music in the decade 70, Art Sullivan.
The person in charge of this connection, the new technology. Hugo began by singing a text of the Belgian singer being on Dailymotion. "It is one fan of Art Sullivan who drew the attention of Art on videos and at the beginning, he did not find grace, while visiting the other texts I interpreted Aznavour and Jacques Brel, it is there that he began to be moved by my voice. Two days later, I received a phone call to go to record texts with them." explains Hugo.

On the road of Brussels

If at the beginning, he still thought that it was a joke because the first call that it received from Art Sullivan was a 1st Avril-the arrival of the plane ticket came to give a bigger credibility to this story, almost fanciful. But there was another problem, Hugo is afraid of the plane. Of Povoa de Varzim in France, for a whole day, he travelled on the road of his very ambitious dream.
The 19-year-old young, took the unusual option of this music. But for Hugo the explanation is simple: "the current music does not give me of feelings. My preference for the early music, is that it in something different when I listen to it and I sing it. "The arrival to Brussels and the entry to a studio" It was wonderful, it was the beginning of a journey of magic ", by placing its musics on Dailymotion, he has never thought that that would make him famous, it was above all "a way of singing, of expressing me." At the moment this one lives "still in the illusion" but is in preparation to continue. Waited in Portugal where he participated in several television programs where he was received "as a king".
For Art Sullivan, it was to find somebody "of exceptional, which sang with the heart", which brought it to be interested in Hugo and to write his first musics. For him three ballads, gathered in a first CD which begins to have its success.

Article published in the flemish press

THE FORMER IDOL OF THE GIRLS ART SULLIVAN SEES A SUCCESSOR IN HUGO

"I think that it is time for me to cross the torch "
In the 70's, the French-speaking Belgian Art Sullivan ( 57 years) has had numerous moved closer hits. He is always a star in Portugal, where he has just discovered a new talented singer: Hugo Sahki ( 19 years).

With them curly hair as before, Art Sullivan - the back-nephew, the singer, of princess Mathilde - and Hugo could be a father and a sons. " I am even rather old so that Hugo could be the one ", Art laughs. " But we are not absolutely of the same family. I consider Hugo as my artistic son, as my successor ".

How succeeded you in knowing?
It was a pure coincidence. Even the parents of Hugo did not know that he made some music. He sang in secret in his bedroom. From time to time, he put videos on YouTube, among them my hit " Petite demoiselle ". One fan heard him and spoke to me about it. I felt at once the natural talent which this boy had. Having resumed some songs with him, I threw it in Portugal. Now, we make a disk to leak out in the rest of Europe. I think that he is time for me to cross the torch.

How is Hugo?
He enormously reminds me , there is 40 years ago. I also stopped the school soon, I also sang in secret, I also wrote romantic songs. Hugo's texts are better than mine as well in Portuguese as in French. He has to be 14 in Paris. He works on the tearoom of his father, on Porto, but maybe more for a long time. I predict him a big future.

Article published in the "Correio da Manha" of June 15th, 2008.

Art Sullivan discovers a Portuguese voice

Hugo was discovered by Art Sullivan, star of the 70s who bet everything so that the young man goes on the road of the success. He sang in his bedroom, so that nobody hears him, but he filmed and sent his videos on internet.

The April 1st 2008, Hugo did not believe the eyes when he lit his computer, after his alarm clock, in the reading of a surprising message which managed him on the blog which it held on internet. He read and read again the message, hesitating between the envy and the fear of believing what he read.
"Art Sullivan saw your videos on the web and was moved by your voice" said a message signed by the brother of the singer who has had one of the biggest musical success in them of 70, at the foot of the message, a telephone number and an address to get in touch.

Nobody suspected the passion which he fed for the music, between 4 walls of his bedroom, even his parents were far from suspecting this passion which had their son. Having concluded his 9th year of school, he began to help them in the family tearoom to Barcelos. It was the closed door, in the black, so that nobody hears him, so that Hugo recorded when he sang in his bedroom, videos which he posted then on Dailymotion.
"I was ashamed to say it to my family, it was my secret, I was always very shy. If Art Sullivan had not contacted me, I would continue to sing but that nobody knows him". He had a break which characterizes him and which does not let doubt its shyness, in Portuguese which it began to learn only when his family settled down in Portugal.

In secret, he would have continued to sing, hidden because of his shyness, if a fan of Art Sullivan had not fallen by chance on a video where he sang "Petite demoiselle", this one sent an e-mail on the official site of Art Sullivan. It is so, pushed by the circumstances that Hugo tries his luck. Art Sullivan quickly made the decision to contact Hugo "I delayed 24 hours" confess the singer of "Petite demoiselle" already that Hugo to delay the double of time to return the call for which the message on internet asked.

"Nobody knew, 3 days having read the message, for the telephone number, the message and what Art Sullivan wanted to make me record. Then, 2 plane tickets arrived home, by post, to go in Belgium, I was afraid whether it is a joke, I did not believe in the invitation " remembers itself.

When he saw him sung on internet, Art Sullivan feels that it is in front of a real artist and not a character. He is able to touch the others because when he sings we manage to see his color, its soul and it is really exceptional, enthusiastic the Belgian singer admits that he sees again itself in Hugo's story and that that helped him to make its decision. "He sang in his bedroom, me I sang only in the cellar, the difference it is that now it have internet and in my time not, but the story is the same, we are alike a lot to pass on feelings. We do not sing to prove that we have some voice but because inside us, he has feelings, emotions. " The complicity between 2 is evident, Art Sullivan, is proud of the voice that he discovered and that he considers as "charmer".

"When Art asked me why I was in the music, what I wanted in the future and what he felt when I sang " reveal a shy Hugo, supposing that he was surprised by the "simplicity" of the singer which for the first time in 35 years of career, bet and support a young unknown singer.

A large-scale promotion drive is launched, he envisages Portugal, France and Belgium but promises to go farther. For Art Sullivan, this bet in Hugo with whom he is going to record an album in the entrance of the winter, the important is that Hugo is recognized and to make a success in of him launched on the musical market.

The producer of Art Sullivan, Jack Velt, relied on the Belgian for songs of love and pain, Hugo agreed to take up the challenge. And nobody in the team doubts that the fans whom Art conquered in the 70's are also admirers of the young person Hugo.

Enthusiast and "touched" when he received plane tickets to go to see Art Sullivan in Belgium, but also "nervous", he spent the next nights without sleeping, the fear had nothing to do with the fact of meeting Art but the fear of the means of transportation which would bring him to Art. "I have the panic fear to take the plane" when he arrived after more than 24 hours of bus and train, plane tickets, the only one was used by the father of Hugo who accompanies him abroad. These words still reveal the boy that it is still inside him, he wants to sing "the love" but also the "world which is in danger ".

"During 3 or 4 minutes when I sing, I am afraid of nothing." By means of Art Sullivan, he is going to know the scene briefly and the world waits for him.

In spite of his 57 years, it is possible to find resemblances with the young man, who in the 70's made the girls sigh and the women with his ballads. Between 1972 and 1978, the Belgian singer sold about ten million disks and published albums in France, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Portugal and Latin America. "Ensemble", "Petite fille aux yeux bleus", "Donnes, donnes-moi", "Petite demoiselle" are songs the most hummed by Art Sullivan which went away for a long time from the scene - in the silence, it had dedicated itself to the composition and to the audiovisual production.

In 2006, he returned to record "Tout est dans tout", an album of originals which broke this long silence. He is betting for the first time in the career of a young foreigner "he is Portuguese, but he would have been Ukrainian or Polynesian, that would have been similar for me, he has a big talent, he is an artist in the depths of his soul " makes the eulogy the godfather of the young man, having seen and heard him on the net, in his videos Hugo sings a song of Art Sullivan and also Brel.

Article published in Radio Onda Viva of august 13, 2009.

Art Sullivan sang and the public vibrated.

And so it is finished this third summer night of Radio Onda Viva.
The Belgian singer was the top of the bill of the show which filled completely Povoa de Varzim's arenae and he did not disappoint the expectations of those who went to see him.
More than five thousand persons also assisted the representation of Rogerio Santos, Joana, Bombocas, Susana, Leandro, Monica Sintra and Hugo Sahki.

Article published in Radio Onda Viva of august 12, 2009.

Art Sullivan already arrived at Povoa de Varzim to participate in the third " Nights of Summer, 2009 " in the ROV.
The Belgian singer is the top of the bill of the show, of this Wednesday, which begins in 21.30h in arenae.
Art Sullivan is the author of several big musical successes of decade 70. With titles as: Petite demoiselle, Jenny and Ensemble, among others, today still, they are recognized and identified by those who listen to them.
Arrived at Portugal, the 59-year-old artist revealed to have a lot of anxiety to sing in a surrounding wall which is planned completely full.
He hopes that the public is going to have fun and to remember himself songs which marked their youth.
On returning to Povoa de Varzim, Art Sullivan praises the beauty of the beaches of the city where it is going to occur. The singer still underlines the sympathy of people of the country and thanked us for the invitation of ROV.
Besides the Belgian, on the scene are going to cross Joana, Bombocas, Susana, Leandro, Monica Sintra and Hugo Sahki.

Article published in VIP of July 2, 2008, in Portugal.

The talent of the Portuguese Hugo Sahki was discovered on Internet by the Belgian mythical singer of "Petite demoiselle". The first album is for soon.

He was shy, shameful and was afraid of the fact that would say his parents, his friends if he said that he liked singing, that could seem ridiculous. Thus, he sang in secret in his bedroom and made videos which he put on his blog. He can say to himself that he has a big luck. When Hugo receives a message saying that Art Sullivan had seen a video and that he was interested in his voice, he found that it was a good departure - in this day of April 1st, the traditional day of the lies. What is sure, weeks later, he was heading for Belgium, where is the romantic singer.

Now the author of "Petite demoiselle" compose for the Hugo's first album, for the throw after the summer. " There is a lot of people which know how to sing, but in his case, that comes from the heart, of the soul and that touches me much. I see in him an artist in all his greatness ", explains Art Sullivan to VIP the reasons which brought him to bet on a young person who was discovered by chance. " I see again myself little in him when I was 18-19 years old, he sang in his bedroom, me I sang in my cellar, I was also shy. I am finding my youth through him " says the 57-year-old singer, who is determined to launch the career of the 19-year-old young. " He got touched me and convinced me, it was necessary in light years to think of launching the career of a young people " he underlines.

Hugo is aware that " it fell of the sky, it is an enormous chance " and intends to seize this opportunity. He admits that he always liked singing, but now he has the notion that that can become its life. " I never see that as a profession, it is a way of sharing feelings with the others " he says, supposing that he is a " romantic singer ". But, he identifies himself, essentially, with " songs with text, author-singer, of true music ", that is with the old guarding of the French music: Serge Gainsbourg, Léo Ferré, Jacques Brel.

The shyness eventually lost on the road of these months of extensive work with Art Sullivan. " I continue to be shy, but the truth is that, when I begin to sing, I go out of my shell and I manage to pass on feelings ", he admits. One of fundamental point, for his 'tutor': " the love is the base of everything, is the base of the humanity. If there was no love, in the physical sense of the term, there would be no children, thus, there would be no humanity. For me, the emotion and the love are our blood. "

It is in this point that cross themselves the musical cultures of France and Portugal. Art knows Portugal for decades: " I came here from numerous times, before and after the Revolution, and I saw the evolution joining the country throughout these 30 years. " Already Hugo was born in France, but 4 years ago, it leaves living to Povoa de Varzim. It is in this occasion that he perfected his Portuguese, but he eventually gave up the school because he felt that it was not his way. For 2 years already, he helps his parents in the tearoom to Barcelos. The Portuguese mother and the Algerian father very well adapted themselves and do not emit the hypothesis to live in another country: " I was welcomed with open arms, I feel very well here, it is quiet. Portuguese are very loved ", says the young. Opinion shared by Art Sullivan: " The lack of punctuality irritates me, now, nobody can deny that it is the most kind people of the world " he concludes.

Art Sullivan and Hugo's interview published in TV7 Dias ( Portuguese magazine TV)

Art Sullivan and Hugo Sahki are in Portugal to promote their partnership.

At 59 years old, the french singer -which made successin the 70's, with the hit "Petite demoiselle"-IT IS THE RETURN TO THE MUSIC, THIS TIME TO SPONSOR THE YOUNG PORTUGUESE: Hugo Sahki, 19 years old. TV7Dias speaks to them two.

The dream of Hugo Sahki
He is 19 years old, he is the son of an Algerian and a Portuguese, having lived in France, it is four years ago he move to Povoa de Varzim, where his parents manage a tearoom. It is in the city of the North that the young begin to get to like more seriously, using Internet."It has only one year which I began to put my videos on a site. A dream which I always hid even to my parents..."Since he knows Art Sullivan, by a jump pf the fate, today concretizes his dreams: "The disk, Secret Emotions, already went out for two months, and frontires. Essentially, romantic music...I have only a message which is to share the same dream. We believe it! To type in the door of producers is not the solution."

How was Hugo discovered?
A fan discovered that he sang the song 'Petite demoiselle" in a video on Youtube. I saw it, I found nothing special, but, meanwhile seen that it had links for the other songs, I clicked and there I discovered something special in the interpretation, in the gestures of this boy, and it touched me and makes that I wanted to contact him.

Do you see yourself again in the music which he makes?
I was more beautiful than Hugo when I had his age (laughters). Seriously, I see again myself in him in the measure that he sang only in his room, in front of a webcam ans I sang only in the cellar of my house. In my time, there was no Internet, but I managed to find in Hugo this sensibility. I give him a melody and he, in three minutes, he assimilates it and it has many resemblances between us in musical terms, in this sense I see again myself in him.

When you began, were you sponsored, such as maintaining you make it for this young?
Yes. It was more or less the same thing, because Hervé Villard helped me, by composing him the music "Capri, c'est fini".

What assessment do you make of these 30 years of carreer?
The assessment is very good because for a singer to have a music which makes success one or two years, it is already something and I, I am lucky that people always remember my music 30 years later.

What moment reminds you with most emotion these 3 decades bound to the music?
My first disk. However, more than it, it is the first time that I had my disk in hands. Over the moment, I passed by the young which sang in its cellar to the musicain who records a disk. Have it in my hands, to see me in magazines, it was...

But it has had a lot of time remote from albums. Who made you stop and brought you to begin again?
I stopped because in the time, I had stopped feeling this passion which I had for the music. I found that without passion, it was better to stop and it is what I made. However, then, when the producers contacted me to edit my musics in CD, I said yes, thinking that everybody had already forgotten me. And I was very surprised to see that not. Even in Portugal, when the album went out, it was double of platinum in 2000/2002!

Was this success expected?
Not at all! In France and in Belgium the same thing arrived. It was a surprise! I had the notion that people remembered my music, but what arrived, was an enormous surprise. People ran to buy my album and it was an excellent present which brought me to want to return to the world of music. When I took back the shows, I saw that people remembered themselves of a part of their life through my music.

Now has it albums planned?
Never say never! For at once, no. What I want to make now, it is shows and to sing my successes, but another way...The 'Petite demoiselle' in waltz, in tango, in rap... Why not?!

What do you feel when generations and generations remember themselves of your music?
I feel very young, it is clear (laughters)! In 30 years, I thought that every day was the end and that I would be forgotten. For me what arrived is a miracle, incredible!

Do you know some Portuguese singers?
I know a lot, I am going to say to you Amalia Rodrigues because everybody knows her! I like Marco Polo, Tony Carreira, Mariza, and many others...And I think that it has a certain resemblance between the Portuguese and the French popular music.

What message would you like to leave to your Portugueses fans?
That they are in my heart, Portugal is in my heart. It has 35 years ago, upon my arrival at the airport, it was three or four thousands persons whose waited for me! It is a memory which will remain engraved in my heart an d I have to thank them all. Thank you!