“We are two twin sisters, born under the sign of Gemini”, sang in chorus the young ladies of Rochefort in 1967. If the actresses Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac played the famous heroines on the screen in Jacques Demy’s film, the first was only the younger sister of the second.
However, stars have had a successful career with their twin. Like Nicola and Stéphane Sirkis, with the members of their Indochine group. Born on June 22, 1959 in Antony in the Hauts-de-Seine, the two brothers were passionate about music in their youth. Despite their twinness, they did not seem bound by their singularity.
“We were false twins,” said Nicola Sirkis to Le Parisien in 2018. “I never felt this special bond supposed to unite the twins. Even my mother and my daughter have trouble recognizing us in the photos of the era”. Between the leader of the group and his guitarist, each one was already cultivating his own personality. “Stéphane was the heartthrob, the far left political activist. Me, the loner”.
Together, the two musicians will experience success in the 1980s and string together hits like L’Aventurier, Trois nuits par Semaine and 3rd sex. In full glory, the musician Stéphane Sirkis sinks into his addictions and dies suddenly on February 27, 1999 of hepatitis at only 39 years old. “You can’t imagine everything we did, with my mother, to try to get him out of it. He didn’t want to get out of it,” told the artist to our colleagues.
If the family imploded after the death of Stéphane, their older brother Christophe Sirkis disputes the causes of his death. For him, he would have been the victim of “an overdose observed by the emergency doctor at St-Antoine Hospital”, in a right of reply published by the Gala site. Several years later, Nicola Sirkis pays tribute to his twin in music through several songs.
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