Pascal Obispo: this gesture he is ready to make to help Ukrainians

PASCAL OBISPO. Singer Pascal Obispo, who participated in the concert in support of Ukraine broadcast on France 2, France Inter and France 24, offered his help to Ukrainians.

[Mis à jour le 09 mars 2022 à 12h46] It is visibly moved that Pascal Obispo went on stage yesterday, during the concert in support of Ukraine, broadcast on France 2, France Inter and TV5 Monde. An evening called United for Ukraine, the profits of which will be donated to the people affected by the war, which brought together many French and international artists, including Pascal Obispo.

The latter, who came to perform his song while I sing, said he was particularly moved by the situation in Ukraine. “What can you do when you’re just a singer?”, he says first after his performance. “Music has the power at least to warm hearts,” continues the artist, who claims to be ready to help Ukrainians directly by welcoming them to his home.

“I’m even thinking of taking the plunge. I want to do a lot more. If there’s a way to welcome people (…) frankly, I’m a candidate to welcome a family, probably women and children, at me. With pleasure. It seems normal to me”, explains Pascal Obispo to Nagui. And to conclude: “if we can help, we do it, that’s what we’re here for.”

We no longer present Pascal Obispo. And if his career is therefore more or less known to everyone, his private life is less so. In particular his relationship with his wife, Julie Hantson, discreet in the media. In September 2015, the two lovers were married, surrounded by 400 people, including a host of celebrities. Before ending the festivities in the sumptuous property of Pascal Obispo.

The young model is 26 years younger than her husband. “Julie is the most benevolent person I have had the chance to meet. For five years, she has done me a world of good. She highlights my qualities and helps me to erase my faults”, had confided the singer in the columns of Le Parisien, before going one better on the set of C à Vous on France 5. “When I met my wife, my life changed. She balanced me, I now live in harmony, I became someone another and the tribute to the women who have profoundly changed our way of life, in terms of fashion, science, sport flowed naturally”.

For the second year in a row, Pascal Obispo resumes his place as coach in the show The Voice, whose ninth season began on Saturday January 18, 2020, on TF1. He therefore returns, for a third episode, in his red armchair, alongside Marc Lavoine, Amel Bent and Lara Fabian. “I am very happy to start this new season with my three comrades. I have known Marc for a long time and I rediscovered him thanks to The Voice. He is very spiritual and I have a good time next to him. Lara is very sweet, she touches talent at heart.She is a fulfilled woman, guided by benevolence, sensitivity and professionalism (…) I talk to Amel, she makes me discover new artists and I appreciate her clear opinions. There is a lot of humanity between us, a bit as if we were four brothers and sisters. We share a lot with our differences and we also discover ourselves differently with this show”, confides Pascal Obispo to TF1 about his role as coach. .

For the singer, participating in The Voice remains an adventure rich in emotions. “Throughout my career, I protected myself a lot because I also seemed to experience something difficult with the success that one does not choose. I may not have shown much of this that I was really (…). I was very dazzled by the sincerity of the three other coaches who were giving themselves up and I said to myself: why not me? Why not say what I feel and share a little of my experience? That’s what I did, with authenticity,” recalls Pascal Obispo. The opportunity for us to come back, precisely, on his experience.

The biography of Pascal Obispo is rich. Singer, author and composer of French variety, he is known for his voice and his particular style of clothing, he met his first success with the song “Plus que tout au monde” in 1992. He then multiplied collaborations, musicals and concerts, especially with the Enfoirés, making him one of the sure values ​​of French song.

Born in 1965 in Bergerac, Dordogne, Pascal Obispo moved to Rennes, Brittany, with his mother at the age of 13. It was at the Emile-Zola high school that he honed his weapons as a musician. He mainly played bass in new wave bands before becoming lead singer of the band Senso. It was with this group that he released his first solo album “Le Long du Fleuve” in 1990. Two years later, the title song of the album “Plus que tout au monde” was a hit. Will follow in the 1990s, the hits “Tombé pour elle (Bird Island)”, “Person”, “Where and with whom you love me”, “Lucie”, “Les Meilleurs Ennemis”, songs that remain in the collective memory of the French.

After prestigious collaborations (Johnny Hallyday, Florent Pagny, Zazie, Patricia Kaas…), he participated in the musical “The Ten Commandments” in 2000. That year he married the budding actress Isabelle Funaro with whom he had his first child, Sean, a few months later. If he signed fewer hits in the 2000s, Pascal Obispo continued to collaborate with various artists such as Calogero, Garou, Faudel, Céline Dion or Amel Bent. He obtained his first music victory with his show “Fan Tour” in 2004, appeared regularly in the Enfoirés troupe and prepared between 2010 and 2012 a new musical comedy: “Adam and Eve: The Second Chance”. In 2013, Pascal Obispo successively released the best of titled “Vintage” and the album “Le Grand Amour”.

In 2000, Pascal Obispo married the young 18-year-old model, Isabelle Funaro. A few months after their marriage, she gave birth to a first child, named Sean. It is to his son that the singer will dedicate the song “Vintage”, his hit released in 2001. “You are my vintage, my most beautiful year, for this happiness as a bonus, that you gave me, I am forever your land, that’s being a father”, sings the artist in this declaration of paternal love. Five years after Sean’s birth, the couple separated. Isabelle Funaro is now married to Michael Youn, with whom she has two children, a daughter named Seven born in 2011 and a son, called Stellar, born in 2019.

Pascal Obispo is angry and it is on social networks that he makes it known. Sunday evening, the singer posted several messages on his Twitter account, pinning the organizers of the Francofolies de la Rochelle festival. “Do you know how long my producer has been suggesting me to those of Franco La Rochelle? 23 years old And always a negative answer. To know if these people respect all audiences [sic]“, he writes in the caption of an animated image of the Batman Joker who applauds and identifies Gérard Pont, the director of the event which took place this weekend.

His response was not long in coming. “I have nothing against Pascal Obispo either personally or artistically. I also offered him three or four years ago to come and he couldn’t. And I repeated my invitation this year but it was logical that He plays before Patrick Bruel and their financial stamps were incompatible”, he explains to the Parisian. And to Pascal Obispo to retort: ​​”It’s archi-false”. “Between ‘Vintage’, ‘Le grand amour’, ‘Billet de femme’ and my current tour, I’ve been playing non-stop since 2012. As for the Printemps de Bourges, my late producer fought for me to play there but it never worked. I make between 200,000 and 250,000 spectators per tour and the press greets all my shows”.

“I’m always available”

A few hours after his first tweet, Pascal Obispo’s second tackle to Gérard Pont: “Did you know that it’s the same prod that have organized Franco de La Rochelle / no prog for 23 years! Print from Bourges / never prog! Victoires de la musique Argu of clowns: am always available [sic]“, adds the singer, lamenting not being invited to the festivals organized by the Morgane group, of which Gérard Pont is the head and which manages Les Francofolies or the Printemps de Bourges (where Pascal Obispo has never performed), but also Les Victoires de la Musique (of which the company has been executive producer since 2015, recalls Le Parisien).

And Pascal Obispo to add fuel to the fire this Monday, July 15 at the end of the day, with a new tweet, in which he explains that his rant is not “a request”, but “just for fun and unmask these two Augustes”, pointing to Gérard Pont and Pierre Pauly, programmer of the Francofolies.