FLORENT PAGNY. Singer Florent Pagny has announced that he is suffering from lung cancer, for which treatment will keep him away from the stage for a long time.
[Mis à jour le 25 janvier 2022 à 12h41] “I’m not going to be able to complete the sixty-year tour.” It was in a video posted on social networks that Florent Pagny made “a rather special announcement”: the singer is suffering from lung cancer. “I have just been diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in the lung, which is not very sympathetic”, explains the interpreter of Know how to love.
Florent Pagny, who presents things as being an “impediment”, without dramatizing his state of health, is forced to put his professional projects and his tour planned for this year on hold. “I will not be able to finish my 60th anniversary tour. I have to cancel all of my concerts, following a health problem”, he declared.
This tour, on hiatus for several months due to the health situation, was to resume this Tuesday, January 25 in Tours. In his video, Florent Pagny specifies that all tickets will be refunded. “In life, the most important thing is health and when you have a problem, it becomes a priority, which is why I could not honor my commitments”, concludes Florent Pagny, who will still participate in the next season of The Voicewhich begins on February 12 on TF1.
Since his announcement on video, many personalities have sent their support to Florent Pagny: from Nikos Aliagas to Matt Pokora via Pascal Obispo and his wife, but also, of course, thousands of fans of the singer on social networks.
The French singer, who therefore suffers from lung cancer, gave in the same video some elements on the medical recommendations and the prognosis that were given to him. “I have just been diagnosed with a tumor in the lung, a cancerous tumor that is not very sympathetic and cannot be operated on. So I have to go into a six-month protocol of chemotherapy and X-rays.”
“Me and my other half have to put ourselves in warrior mode to get through this rather special ordeal”, adds Florent Pagny, “sorry” for not being able to “honor [s]are commitments.”
Florent Pagny did not say more about his state of health at this stage. But wishing to focus on “the most important”, he did not announce a specific postponement of the canceled concerts. The star simply indicated that all tickets purchased for the quarantine of canceled dates would be refunded. Wanting to be reassuring, the singer expressed the wish that he and his audience meet next year: “Take care of yourself and when all this is settled, we will meet again and I will come to finish what I started. maybe there will be the 61-year-old tour.”
From the announcement of his lung cancer, on social networks, the comments are going well. In particular on the supposed addictions of the singer, in particular to cigarettes. In 2016, on Le Divan by Marc-Olivier Fogiel on France 3, he confided in his consumption of soft drugs. “It stabilizes me (…) I was hyperactive. I was a very, very speedy kid. worth a hospital stay. “I ended up in the hospital after a drink, where I could have stayed. I had a bad feeling one evening and I started drinking and I ended up in the hospital with a hole in my stomach. belly”, he explains, as reported by the site of TF1.
He is one of the four jurors of The Voice, the most beautiful voice, whose new season will be broadcast from Saturday February 12 at 9:10 p.m. In his video, Florent Pagny reassures his fans and announces that he will be present on the show. “You will still see me on the red armchair of The Voice in great shape, since we recorded everything before”, explains the singer who mentions in passing a “very interesting season”. On the other hand, it is not yet known how the live broadcasts which are to be held at the end of the season, in the spring, will take place.
Florent Pagny has been part of the French musical landscape for more than thirty years. Know how to love, And one day a woman, My freedom of thoughtor Where I’ll Take You, several of his titles have become classics. In total, he has sold more than 15 million records. Florent Pagny was born on November 6, 1961 in Chalon-sur-Saône, in Saône et Loire. This is where he grew up, with his mother, Odile, secretary, Jean, his father, who sells vignettes and his three brothers and sisters. Very early on, Florent Pagny developed a passion for music and decided, at only 16, to leave his family to settle in Paris.
In the capital, he then met the famous showbiz headhunter, Dominique Besnehard. The latter offers him the chance to take his first steps in the cinema. He lands roles and plays in The balance by Bob Swaim Fort Saganne by Alain Corneau or in Inspector Labavure by Claude Zidi. In 1987, Florent decided to turn to song. He writes the song Whatever, manifesto against drugs. The 45 rpm, produced by Gérard Louvin, met with enormous success (1 million copies sold) and remained at the top of the top 50 for 26 weeks. In 1988, he repeated the feat with his new 45 rpm, let us breathe. The following year, Florent Pagny obtained a music victory in the category “Male revelation of the year”. In 1990, he released his first album, Thank you. The singer is rewarded with a gold record with more than 100,000 copies sold.
However, the sudden notoriety, the money, his relationship with the young singer Vanessa Paradis and his title rolling press, earned Florent Pagny growing unpopularity with the media. It will be boycotted for 4 years. In 1992, he released his second album, very autobiographical, Realistic. The success is mixed and Florent Pagny is faced with personal and financial problems. The artist is at the bottom of the wave.
stay true is the third opus of Florent Pagny and places the year 1994 under the sign of rediscovered peace. Jean-Jacques Goldman writes to him do you follow me? and If you want to try me, two huge successes. One year later Welcome to my homea compilation that contains three new tracks, including Welcome to my home (1.5 million copies). In 1997, exiled in Patagonia in the south of Argentina, the singer released a new album, Know how to love. The signatures are prestigious.
We find, Erick Benzi, Zazie, Art Mengo, Pascal Obispo, Jacques Veneruzo, Jean-Jacques Goldman… Despite the artist’s tax adventures, the disc is a commercial success with 1.4 million copies sold. Florent Pagny is logically rewarded with the victory of the music of the Best male artist. Records, tours and changes of looks follow one another: Break (1999), Chatelet les Halles (2000), 2 (2001), Elsewhere Land (2003), Baritone (2004) and Abracadabra (2006).
Caught up by the tax authorities on January 27, 2005, he was sentenced for tax evasion. November 2007, Florent Pagny finally feels ready to interpret the man he considers a master, Jacques Brel. He chooses eleven songs from the Belgian singer’s repertoire and delivers an opus which has the value of a self-portrait, Pagny sings Brel. At the production, we find the guitarist Daran and Yvan Cassar, talented pianist and arranger. The singer interprets Brel with sobriety accompanied by a philharmonic orchestra. To date, he has given a unique performance at L’Olympia, on December 1, 2007, in front of an enthusiastic audience.
In 2010, Florent Pagny released the album Everything and its opposite in which he finds Pascal Obispo with whom he sings in duet. In 2011, he went on an acoustic tour to celebrate his 50th birthday. Since 2012, he is a coach of the show The Voice, the most beautiful voice. In 2013, released the single Bearing wallsfirst single from the album grow old with you, composed entirely by Calogero. The album was certified diamond disc in July 2014.
After breaking up with Vanessa Paradis, Florent Pagny met a young 25-year-old Argentinian woman, Azucena Camano, during a dinner in 1993. The latter is a model, painter and creator of a brand of organic beauty products. Together, the couple have two children: Inca, born on March 17, 1996 and Aël, born on May 26, 1999. Florent Pagny and Azucena Camano married in 2006. The singer will dedicate his album “Vieillir avec toi” to him. “We are a karmic couple,” said Florent Pagny on the 8:30 p.m. set on Sunday by Laurent Delahousse. “Our destiny was made to meet and accompany each other to precisely come back from where I was, from the hole and to surpass myself”, he added.