Vivien Savage

Vivien Savage, real name Jérôme Pilet-Desjardins, is best known for his 1984 hit "La P'tite Lady". Born in Boulogne-Billancourt on January 2, 1955, he began his career as a rock singer and guitarist. In 1984, it was a song written with guitarist Jean-Claude Capillon, "La P'tite Lady (Un petit chat sauvage)", that brought him success, reaching number 20 in one of the first Top 50 sales charts. Other singles followed, but never reached the hit parade again, until the album Ben-Hur, Vénus et les Pirates (1987), for which Vivien Savage was surrounded by musicians such as Jean-Jacques Milteau, Zacharie Richard and Eric Serra. The same year, he moved away from his pop-rock style to record a duet for young people with Alain Souchon, "22 ! v'la les flics". The singer took part in the Printemps de Bourges and Francofolies de La Rochelle festivals, and appeared alongside Alain Delon in the film Ne réveillez pas un flic qui dort (José Pinheiro, 1988). He worked on a second album, Les Voyages du North's Son (1992), before stepping away from the stage to devote himself to cooking, in England and Touraine, until the RFM Party 80 tour in 2007, which saw him return to song, from the Zenith halls of France to the Stade de France. After a stay in Asia, he returned to France and wrote his first novel, L'Argent est le roi! (2016), before returning to the stage with other stars of the 1980s for the Partez en live avec le Top 50 tour.