“Who sings “Je l’aime à mourir” (“I love her to death”) better/best, Françis Cabrel, Shakira, or Jacques Sauveur Jean?”

Shakira sings the song (the bilingual edition: Spanish and French) “Je l’aime à mourir” (“I love her to death”) better than the famous French singer-songwriter Françis Cabrel (he is one of my favorite artists of all time) who composed the song in 1979 (Man, I was only a one-year-old baby boy. lol). When he released the album in 1979, it is reported more than 600,00 copies were sold in France only.

In 2011, Shakira performed both “La Quiero a Morir” and “Je l’aime à mourir” live in Paris. Here is her rendition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92tkZQB-Uj4

*Her blue dress is gorgeous and quite stunning. 🙂 🥰❤️

Jacques Sauveur Jean even did a better job than Cabrel and Shakira in the bilingual rendition in French and Creole. He added a little Caribbean flavor (Haitian Konpa) to it. He recorded the song in studio in 2007.

Jackito, “Je l’aime à mourir”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO7N61mUzmk

Here is Françis Cabrel singing the original song in 1979 (“Je l’aime à mourir”): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soPhiV2epM0

Here are the most beautiful lines from the song:

Elle a gommé les chiffres
Des horloges du quartier
Elle a fait de ma vie
Des cocottes en papier
Des éclats de rire
Elle a bâti des ponts
Entre nous et le ciel
Et nous les traversons
À chaque fois qu’elle
Ne veut pas dormir
Je l’aime à mourir…

Elle a dû faire toutes les guerres
Pour être si forte aujourd’hui
Elle a dû faire toutes les guerres
De la vie, et l’amour aussi

Vous pouvez détruire
Tout ce qu’il vous plaira
Elle n’aura qu’à ouvrir
L’espace de ses bras
Pour tout reconstruire
Pour tout reconstruire
Je l’aime à mourir

[She erased the numbers
From the clocks in the neighborhood
She turned my life
Into paper dolls
Bursts of laughter
She built bridges
Between us and the sky
And we cross them…

She must have fought all the wars
To be so strong today
She must have fought all the wars
Of life, and of love too
She lives her best

You can destroy
Whatever you like
She will only have to open
The space of her arms
To rebuild everything
I love her to death.]

***That is exactly what happens to me or what I do on Facebook whenever I have too much time on my hands. lol