At 70, Marjo wants to make music again. The rocker, who will release a double compilation album of her hits on Friday, reveals she is preparing to retire to write songs that could spawn a new original album 18 years from now in 2024 or 2025.
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She doesn’t hesitate to admit it. As people kept asking her when she would release a new album, the idea slowly came to mind.
His last album of original songs, Turquoise, was released in 2005.
Well planned, his creative process will extend from January to May 2024. The stage monster will therefore have to stop its concerts next December.
“What am I going to talk about?” I do not know yet. I see myself a bit like a sculptor in front of a block, cutting it out a little here and a little there until a shape is created. Then you have to polish the sculpture, and that takes time,” explains the artist in an interview she gave to the journal on the sidelines of the release of a double compilation CD on Friday.
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Always rebellious
One thing is certain: there is no question of retirement for the energetic Marjo.
“For me, it’s the illness that affects me or my body that tells me: OK, Marjolaine, you’re tired, stop,” she says.
The one who sang solo Illegal with Corbeau, as well as Provocante and Wildcats, still feels like a rebellious and carefree teenager, whose life motto is: “What will happen, will happen!”
“I love the stage. It’s there, there’s a passion that takes hold of me. “I am a perfect woman,” affirms the one who has lost none of her passion, her enthusiasm and her legendary openness.
Shaking up Quebec history
Marjo says she is independent, lonely and wild by choice. “Life brings me things, or it is nothing. It’s really all or nothing,” laughs the former coach on the La Voix show.
A little more coy about calling her a “monument of Quebec singing” and a “pioneer,” Marjo admits that she turned Quebec history on its head by being one of the first Quebec rockers. “All the better if I could inspire other girls to show off!” she says.
“I’ve been here for a long time and haven’t given up. Rock ‘n’ Roll is a true way of life. It’s crazy, we give it our all, it’s a man’s world, it’s not easy. Let’s just say I screamed more often and it didn’t go unnoticed.”
Courtesy of Felix Renaud
–Marjo, the deluxe edition double compilation album in vinyl, CD and digital formats, is released this Friday. It brings together 17 of the singer’s great hits, including Illegal, There are Tomorrow, Provocative, Wildcats And Elsewhere. The corresponding booklet with souvenir photos was also first discovered by Marjo in the company of Newspaper, Wednesday mornings.