Relatives and friends from Quebec also came to visit. Mego
and Suzanne came. Sometimes people from Sony came also. Usually it was Vito,
who brought music for us to hear. Little by little, what would become our first
English-language album took shape. It would be composed exclusively of love
songs. Most of the approximately two hundred songs I've recorded in my life
are about love— its joy and its pain. We were alone a lot, far
from all the rumors that were circulating about us. I was finally living
intimately with the man I loved. We were a couple, a real couple. For the first time in my life, I could be a lover and pretend to be a
wife. I could slip into the kitchen at the inn, make some pasta or a cake. I'm
not a very good cook. At the house, my mother did everything and knew how to do
everything. Outside of spaghetti bolognaise, my talents are limited. Rene is a
big eater. And at the time, he was a better cook than I was. He added spices to
my sauce, changing everything. He let me sleep very late. I'm a night person and he's
a morning person. Around six a.m., he'd
tiptoe out to buy magazines and newspapers to read on the terrace. He always
wanted to know all the news
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and everything on the sports page, whether it was hockey, baseball, football, or boxing. He always wanted to know who'd won or lost in every game, every battle.
When I got up around noon, he'd get me back into the world. He'd have made some fruit juice for me. Sometimes we didn't do anything but walk on the beach and enjoy the sun.
That winter in California, our days were peaceful. They were the last days that were that way, before the great whirlwind once again swept us up.
In California, nobody knew us. We could let everyone see our love and our happiness.
Everything was new. Love, the landscape, the words, even my voice seemed new to me.
I knew my singing would sound different in English. When you change from one language to another, the very texture of your voice changes, even its register.
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