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The Frenchman has collected records professionally: over 2,800 concerts on five continents, around 340 gold and platinum records and more than 90 million records sold, of which between 22 and 23 million were for his “Ballade pour Adeline” alone. On Thursday (December 28th) the person responsible for these astronomical figures will be 70 years old. A life with great highs and great lows.
Clayderman has always been meticulous about protecting his private life, always citing the protection of his two children as justification. The subject of children is a dark chapter in the pianist’s life. In 2012, he lost his then 39-year-old daughter Maud, who was born when he was only 18. She died of heart failure at her desk. Only years later did he speak about it in the media. The drama plunged him into a deep depression. His love of music helped him get over it, he later said.
The complete work of the musician, who was born in Paris as Philippe Robert Louis Pagès, now consists of around 1,400 titles. As the son of a French pianist, he learned to play the piano at the age of six. At the age of twelve he was admitted to the Paris Conservatory. At the age of 16 he won first prize.
Today he is married to the violinist Typhaine Pautrel. The wedding to the musician, who is 15 years younger, took place in 2010. He met her on tour in 2001. The announcement of his separation from his second wife Christine, from whose marriage his son Peter, born in 1984, comes, also took place quietly.
Gentle, soulful, cozy: a style to which Clayderman has been loyal for 40 years and which earned him the nickname “Prince of Romance” given to him by ex-president’s wife Nancy Reagan in the mid-80s. His latest album “Forever Love” from 2022 is also a typical Clayderman work. In addition to interpretations of modern classics by Coldplay and Ed Sheeran, he plays compositions by Paul de Senneville, who wrote the Candlelight song “Ballade pour Adeline” for him in 1977.
In his private life, however, he has a preference for jazz musicians. He likes pianists like Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Joe Sample, Michel Petrucciani and Brian Culbertson. “I like jazz a lot, but I’m not capable of producing a jazz album,” he told dpa. Romanticism is in his blood.
With his latest album he has made a big splash in France, as he fills concert halls especially abroad. According to him, it has fallen out of fashion in his home country because the French media doesn’t like what’s popular. The French weekly newspaper “L’Obs” quotes him as saying that they are too elitist.
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