The Toronto Sun
April 25, 2009 Saturday
FINAL EDITION
Charles loves Charles cover
BY JASON MACNEIL
While hundreds of artists from Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire to Bob
Dylan and Elvis Costello have covered his songs, Charles Aznavour says
there is one that stands out above them all.
"Yes, it’s not nice to say it but I can say it," he says. "Ray Charles
(who covered La Mamma). He recorded another song which never went out
yet which I hope is going to come out.
"I knew him very well, we were quite close and something nobody knows
(is) that he had a son who was half-Armenian. And we had the same
taste for champagne, which was not bad either."
Another project which Aznavour has an indirect role in is the musical
comedy Je m’Voyais Deja (I Could Already See Myself). The stage
production is based on his songs and under the artistic direction of
his daughter Katia Aznavour.
"She does what she has to do," Aznavour says about his daughter. "I’m
not the kind of parent who wants to explain that my daughter is the
best or my son is fantastic. They do what they have to do. As my
father told me, ‘Go, do it and show me.’ "
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
