Naughty Penguin Returns: Rudi Kaya Attacks Baby Boomers

Although he is well past his sixties, Rudy Kaya has not lost his ability to rage. in race or lifePhilan Penguin’s first new song in four years, deplores the rhetoric of his generation.

“You can tell your father that you are not going to live his life. Because all generations must adapt to what they receiveRudi Kaya sings, addressing a young man.

The song, says the 61-year-old artist who has consistently stood out with ordinary people Train And the I walk aloneBorn out of disgust.

his goal? The baby-boom generation, who urged to put their contradictions to the test.

“People over 50 have comments about young people that unfortunately look just like their parents. Your dad said that about you, you said it was a cave and now you say the same thing, teases Rudi Kaya, always ready to highlight the failures of time with fluorescent lights. From the beginning, we’ve been We watch society, that’s our job.We are a mirror.

brothers crying

In what is the first single of a four-track EP titled Helping hand On November 25, Vilain Pingouin is expected to team up with an old Caya friend: Polo Bellemare, from Frères à ch’val.

The two have known each other since the early ’80s and sang together several times, but this studio collaboration is their first.

“I see no one else but Polo who could have sobbed with me.” race or lifeRudy Kaya says.

“They are from the same school,” laughs drummer Michel Vilancourt, who attended the interview.

As good as before the epidemic

Not very active during the pandemic except for a concert in the form of social distancing, in 2021, in Limoelo, Vilain Pingouin resumed his sailing speed this summer, staying on stage fifteen times across Quebec.

For Rudi Kaya, who still has to come to terms with the fallout from a series of strokes he suffered during the 2000s, this was a good way to get back in shape.

“During the pandemic, I was slowing down. I couldn’t walk much, didn’t do any activities, I was in the living room all the time. [L’année] The 2022 movie forced me to walk a lot and do two-hour shows in the heat. I’m back to where I was before the pandemic.”

• the song race or life Available on listening platforms.