Fabien Lecoeuvre: the storyteller

His face is very familiar to you. For thirteen years, you listened to his anecdotes on Saturday evening alongside Patrick Sébastien in « The Happy Years ». He is regularly called upon by television news and other entertainment to testify about the disappearance of a star. Cyril Hanouna was not mistaken either by making him join his team of columnists in « TPMP » and « La Grande Darka », nor Europe 1, radio on which he officiates every weekend alongside Wendy Bouchard. Unquestionably, Fabien Lecoeuvre is the living encyclopedia of the French variety.

His legitimacy as a specialist, he owes only to himself. It was built over the years, when nothing predestined this little guy from the North, who should have been an engineer or an accountant, to become one of the star system’s most famous press officers. Thank you, somewhere, for the authority of his father and the upset childhood he had. To escape from a family context where repeated slaps and punishments rhyme with education, the young Fabien took refuge in the song. « It was the outlet of a violent, aggressive family environment. I escaped in songs, « he revealed to the Awakening of the Haute Loire. Thank you, on the other hand, to the lyricist and presenter Jean Nohain who thanks to the anecdote that he told him about « He was a small ship » piqued his interest. “I didn’t know the songs had stories. I discovered it that day and it aroused in me a curiosity that has never left me, « he confided to the New Republic. Fabien could not then guess that this passion for song stories was going to write his own.

Because he knew how to realize his dream. He became that impresario of artists he wanted so much to be. Far from it, being that butterfly attracted to the light. It was only by default; the shade going so well. In forty years of exercise, he has managed careers! Karen Cheryl, Douchka, Chantal Goya, Linda de Suza, Michel Polnareff … He has written biographies! Sheila, Mylène Farmer, Claude François, Johnny Hallyday… That he has brought out books on French song!

By dint of dedicating his pen to others, the time had come for this hard worker to tell his story. Why that ? Simply to discover and better understand who he is. « I wanted to leave a trail and explain who is behind the man behind the scenes of celebrity, » he told C News. Well, it’s done with « A song in the head. » Fabien Lecoeuvre speaks about him with sincerity, humility and even humor, retraces his journey, his countless encounters and necessarily, he reveals anecdotes. Because what would a Fabien book be without crisp stories to reveal? Well-ordered charity starting with himself, he admits to having posed for very hot adult photo novels when he was a student in England; pictures which enabled him « to earn money, to set up his first company and to pay himself cash for his car » as he said at the Awakening of the Haute Loire « .

Far from being a long, calm river, Fabien Lecoeuvre’s life is therefore that which he wanted to be a child. Paternal discipline was therefore right. « Even if in life we ​​don’t do what we want, we are responsible for what we are. I always thought there was only one thing to which we had to resign ourselves to happiness.  » An optimistic philosophy which he made his course of action, a faith in the future and in the changing tomorrows. Like a famous « popular song », this reality « hung white wings on his back, made him walk on clouds ». And it’s not over. Normal. « It goes away and it comes back. It’s all very little. It is sung and it is danced. And it comes back, it holds back ”…

Visuals (C): FLO

« A song in the head » the autobiography of Fabien Lecoeuvre published by Le Passeur

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