details about his Corsican house, his refuge

It’s been a few years since Michel Fugain took leave of the capital. The singer who will celebrate his 82nd birthday this Sunday, May 12, 2024 has in fact left the tumult of Paris for the calm of the Isle of Beauty, a region from which he is not native but which has visibly adopted it in a fraction of second.

Where does Michel Fugain live in Corsica?

It is therefore in Corsica, in a sumptuous villa with swimming pool, that Michel Fugain is living happier days today. Because he says it himself, since the death of his daughter Laurette in 2002, who died at the age of 23 following leukemia, the singer “died with his daughter”. But in Corsica, the founder of the Big Bazar has found a form of serenity. He also says that he managed to reconnect with what is essential thanks to this radical change in life, to say the least.

Located in Corbara, between L’Ile-Rousse and Calvi, in Haute-Corse, this house is the haven of peace for the octogenarian singer, but also that of his partner, Sanda. The two lovebirds, who are 22 years apart, have lived there for more than twenty years and even got married there in 2014. “I discovered Corsica in 1969 and my girlfriend in L’Ile-Rousse in 2004. Sanda sang in a piano bar, the Oria. I fell in love with her voice, then for her strong personality and his taste for life We are always stuck together.had also confided Michel Fugain to the Parisian in 2017 when he opened the doors of his Corsican paradise to them.

Corsica, the refuge of Michel Fugain

Already in 2011, Michel Fugain was questioned in It’s more than a vacationon his radical decision to leave everything for Corsica. “Fed up with Paris, with the world. Here, there are 250,000 of us: fewer than in the 15th arrondissement of the capital! I have the impression of living in a community”he explained. ‘If you want to get rid of your problems and your past, cross some water.’ After the death of my daughter Laurette, I was drowning Here, I came to the surface and regained innocence., he then confided, not without emotion. And it’s up to him to continue: “The Corsicans have character, they are islanders, mountain dwellers, and what’s more, farmers. You now understand why we can be happy here”.

Last year, the man who continues to perform concerts all over France detailed his life choice in nice morning. “To get to the point, I left Paris first. I live in Corsica, where life is completely normal, where people are normal, where there are no posturing”, he admitted. And for this father of four children – three that he had with his first wife Stéphanie, Marie, Laurette and Alexis -, and a daughter born from a childhood sweetheart – Sophie-, to conclude: “When I leave my house and go to Ile-Rousse, I have the Mediterranean Sea on the left, which is my amniotic fluid. I realized while living here that this mass of water reassures me, does me good . That’s the main thing!”