Alain Chamfort, healed from his cancer, returns to his fight against the disease

Currently on tour in some cities in France to defend its sixteenth and last studio album, L’ImpermanenceAlain Chamfort took the opportunity to give an interview on Sunday, March 23, to La Tribune on Sunday. Claude François’s little protégé returned to his childhood, on his relationship with the interpreter ofAlexandrie Alexandra But also on his health problems. The 76 -year -old singer was diagnosed in 2015 from bone cancer, which had to be treated quickly.

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Ten years later, Alain Chamfort is proud to have won the battle against this disease. “” After five years in remission, I am finally healed He reveals. “” I admit that I was really afraid. But the interpreter of Airrua Keep the consequences of this event. “” I feel different from before and a little more fragile ”, had he announced to Telegram in January. “” First of all, because there are consequences. I have, in fact, problems in the back, the vertebrae have been a little touched and I feel pain in the fingers. ” The singer, of a reserved nature, has long kept the secret on his cancer. It was in 2019, during a gala given by the association defeating cancer, that he revealed to have lymphoma.

A long -hidden disease

He claims to have hidden his illness ” modesty “And not to be” complaint ». « I was sick at the same time as Johnny Hallyday and, frankly, knowing that he was fighting for cancer like me did not reassure me at all on my chances of healing», He reveals in the columns of La Tribune on Sunday. Now cured, Alain Chamfort is about to go up tomorrow on the Folies Bergère stage in Paris, to interpret what he announces to be his last record, released in March 2024. He will sing some titles of L’Impermanence As well as less known songs from his previous albums, not to mention the essentials, revisited with new arrangements.