Get CharlElie’s answer

• How did you learn to play the piano?

My grany was a piano teacher and I started playing when I was six or seven.  I was  supervised by her but I had other professors. I loved to improvise and she didn’t like that so much. She used to listen to classical pieces reading the scores on her knees. She tought me how to listen to music, but she was a bit frustrating in terms of education. Anyway, I was 15 when she left us, and then I really started to do something for myself and I let my inspiration go, using all the different tricks and techniques that she gave me.

1969: CharlElie is 13, and is having a piano lesson by his grandmother In Nancy, France.

• What are you most scared of?

I’m scared of losing.

Losing who or what I love,

afraid of losing time,

losing an idea,

losing money,

losing my mind

or losing the purpose of my life,

losing my ability to create, or drive my vehicule,

losing my power of understanding or my power of acting,

losing a match.

I don’t wanna be obliged to quit what I started,

before I see the result of my efforts.

I’m afraid of loneliness.

• When did you realize you were going to be famous?

Since I was a kid, lets say seven years old, I always acted as if I had a goal. Famous is for me the consequence of a success, something you achieved. Notoriety is a wind, it might turn. It requires a certain exigency, an opposition to the shared taste for conformity, a refusal of the confortable tendency to assimilation; make some choices and assume them. The stronger you feel in yourself, the stronger you can face the adversity.

CharlElie 1982 hit song "Comme un avion sans aile" ("Like a plane with no wings")

CharlElie, July 25th 2011 – from Autrey-sur-Madon, Lorraine, France.