Moving confidences about the one who taught him everything. This Sunday, July 2, 2023, the show Seven to eight devotes a portrait to the rising singer Juliette Armanet and her grandmother, carried away by Alzheimer’s disease. In 2009, the artist made a documentary entitled Les grands enfants d’Alzheimer in which she revealed her grandmother Paulette. Images that were shot during a summer by his side.
Faced with journalist Audrey Crespo-Mara, Juliette Armanet evoked the memories of her grandmother who practically raised her. She who gave him the passion for song and the piano. “She was forgetting her own life, her identity, the very fact that she had children (…) She no longer knew what her name was, it was a big white territory”, she explained. A kind of “injustice” and “anger” in the face of Alzheimer’s disease which made her forget who she was and who her relatives were. “I tried to welcome who she was, without trying to tell her: ‘of course I am your granddaughter’.
In the documentary, Juliette Armanet reveals several moments by her side, including a tender moment when her grandmother Paulette rediscovers her family album. “Summoning her childhood memories also helped her regain her footing, to remember who she was”, explains the singer.
The one who passed on her talents as a pianist has not forgotten her passion for this instrument. “What amazes me is that she no longer knows her name is Paulette, but if I play F sharp instead of normal F, she yells at me. This music place has remained her place of absolute consciousness. We feel that it remained very framed in his head. It is the last floppy disk which remains in his hard drive”, then declared the singer.
