Maxime Le Forestier needs no introduction... That's what you might hear here and there, perhaps because his initial successes date back to the last century. It's an easy excuse. But why shouldn't we continue to introduce a singer who reinvents himself with each album, each tour, each concert? Of course, one could simply list the great songs performed by Maxime on stage and embraced by the audience in the room: “San Francisco,” “Fontenay-aux-roses,” “Comme un arbre dans ma ville,” “Né quelque part”... Nearly fifty years of career for this Parisian artist, thousands of rhymes, sixteen studio albums, an honorary Victoire de la Musique (french music award) in 2020, a tour dedicated to Georges Brassens, and even the theme song for the animated series “Babar, roi des éléphants.”
But Maxime Le Forestier's bio can also be summed up in one word: loyalty.

Loyalty to the words that sketch the times - or the eras, actually - loyalty to the musicians who accompany him, loyalty to friends (often the same), loyalty to the guitar, loyalty to the audience.

His latest album, released in June 2019, is titled “Paraître ou ne pas être” (To Appear or Not to Be).
Maxime Le Forestier exists.