With Bécaud, one quickly speaks the words of excess – ogre, colossus, star, glutton… Isabelle Georges speaks about a gladiator, but she does not mime him when she sings him. She remains this free mezzo, always indocile to the borders but soft of intentions, prompt to the escapes and faithful to all her journeys…

Her most beautiful homage to Gilbert Bécaud is perhaps there: she draws from the songs and not from the legend, from the composer’s work and not from the singer’s photos. This makes her a necklace of elegance, delicacy and miracles.

This leads Isabelle Georges to speak, or rather to write three songs of homage to Bécaud, to his art, to his adventure, to his soul. Then, one perceives better what fraternity unites them. Freedom, always, and intoxication, adventure, passion, sharing – these are synonymous.

Bertrand DICALE
Journalist, author and French chanson specialist