HUGUES AUFRAY is one of the walls.
The interpreter of Santiano Holds his guitar since the early 1960s, chaining successes. Since then, he has been a cult singer, a true taulier of French song that has seen everything, well known. Yéyé in the sexual revolution, a rivalry with Johnny Hallydaypassing through the modernization of the music industry, the bankruptcy and a singular friendship with legend Bob Dylan. On the private life, the artist has always assumed his double love life with, on the one hand, his wife, on the other, his young mistress. Regularly, in interviews, he talks about him without eyeshadows and without reproach.
Hugues Aufray: Ascension of a French song star
At the start, Hugues Aufray does not necessarily dream of being a singer. But love for music is stronger than anything. Young, he listens to Félix Leclerc, Georges Brassens and even Serge Gainsbourg. He finds in his masters to sing, artists playing with words, telling stories, using the song to exteriorize feelings. Thus, Hugues Aufray, too, begins to scratch his guitar, to push the song.
The budding singer sends some 45 laps. The routine, at the time, to make itself known. Start of 60’she knows the success that will hoist him at the top: Santiano. Old Irish Sea Sea Seaway brought up to date which becomes the standard of its musical repertoire. A stainless, unstoppable, timeless tube that allows Hugues Aufray a phenomenal ascent in French song. And to have a career of 6 decades!
The two women sharing the life of the interpreter of
Santiano
Hugues Aufray is rather the frank type of the necklace. He has never hidden his extramarital relationship, endorsed by his wife, with a woman much younger than him. The singer, in 1951, married a dancer by the name ofHélène Faure. It will be the mother of her two children, the love of her life too. In the mid -90s, he met
Murielle Mégevandborn in 1974, 45 years younger. She will become her mistress.
Hugues Aufray’s adulterous relationship is completely accepted by his wife. A sort of three -house household from which the interpreter of
Santiano Great prince. In 2022, at the age of 96, Hélène Faure, his wife, died after more than 70 years of marriage. A year later, Hugues Aufray asked in
marriage Murielle Mégevand. The two lovers become husband and wife. And spin perfect love despite the media coverage of their relationship …
Hugues Aufray, his period “noire“And his ideas”suicidal”
Flashback: We are in 2015 in the columns of VSD. Hugues Aufray goes on grill, evoking his youth, his double love life, his career and also his vacuum passages. Honest, the singer empties his bag: “My father had advised against making the fine arts: ‘Have you seen the misery of the artists?‘In 1948, a guy offered to sing for a birthday. I accidents the cabarets until 1958.
It was a black period, my brother Francesco, promised to a sublime career in the opera, committed suicide out of love in 1955.”
Hugues Aufray adds without trying to disguise the truth: “I have problems of money, housing. Only my wife and daughter make me resist my suicidal impulses.“Here, he evokes his wife then, Hélène Faure, and the birth of her first child with her. He then concludes, evoking again”tragic fate”From his brother suicide:“I intended for painting and sculpture. He had to be the show.
Unconsciously, I made my brother’s career.“Hugues Aufray, a much more flayed artist than it seems.
