FLORENT PAGNY. After months of fighting lung cancer, singer Florent Pagny has announced his return to the stage in 2023.
[Mis à jour le 16 décembre 2022 à 10h19] Florent Pagny is better. Almost a year after announcing that he had lung cancer, the singer announces his return to the stage in the summer of 2023, he who had to cancel his 2022 tour, that of his 60th birthday, to be able to follow his treatment. On social networks, Thursday, December 15, appeared several dates of festivals in which Florent Pagny would go.
Thus, this summer tour should take the interpreter of Savoir avoir from June 30 at the Nîmes Festival to July 30 at the Colmar Wine Fair, via the Aluna festival or the Poupet festival, but also the Carcassonne and the ancient theater of Vienne. Here are all the concert dates announced on social networks:
What is Florent Pagny’s state of health?
“I feel better and better”: last November, Florent Pagny came out of silence. The singer, who revealed almost a year ago to have lung cancer, confided in his state of health during a videoconference organized for the special program of Taratata, dedicated to the fight against Cancer, airing Saturday, October 29. Wearing a beret, from Patagonia, where he lives, Florent Pagny wanted to reassure about his state of health: “As you can see, I feel better and better. I am in this fitness phase.” And to add: “Normally, if all goes well, next year, we will finally all meet together to sing and to seek donations, since it is individual donations that allow development and research.
For Florent Pagny, the fight against the disease is almost over, thanks to the treatment he received. “If I feel better and better, it’s because the programs are working better and better. So we have to continue research, we have to continue to fight against this disease”, explains the singer, mobilized for the fight against the cancer.
Discreet on social networks, Florent Pagny wants to be reassuring for months. Last August, on his Instagram account, the singer gave good news to his 386,000 subscribers. In the caption of a photo of him on a boat at sunset, he wrote: “Everything is going very well!! I’m picking up colors in the Aegean Sea. Magnificent.”
Florent Pagny and chemotherapy
A few days before the final Tea Voicein May 2022, in the columns of GalaFlorent Pagny already wanted to be reassuring about his state of health and the progress of his chemotherapy: “Now I’m getting out of the tunnel. I have some answers that allow me to better assess the situation and it revives certain things in me that I ‘m a bit lost, arrived at my age (…) This cancer kind of woke me up, and it redefined the sense of my priorities. As soon as my protocol is finished, I will move on very quickly! “
Florent Pagny had also said more about the difficult times of this chemotherapy: “Yes, I experienced this period when you don’t want anything, you don’t have the peach, your heart is on the edge of your lips, but it passes. I had pure chemo, the one that kicks ass: heartache for twelve days, it’s no longer a joke! You know, the seasickness that you keep when you’ve been on dry land for a week” .
“I assume my head even if I will put glasses (during the premiums of The Voice) because of the fall of my eyelashes which makes me look really sick, but the rest, I manage. What do you want, I’ve always worked on all the looks, here I’m going to the extreme! It’s the purest!”, continues the artist.
Florent Pagny leaves The Voice
After a final season, Florent Pagny left The Voice. “I spent some great years and I’m delighted to have spent all that time with all those people,” said Florent Pagny during the final of the last season of The Voice, in May 2022, assuring of his “pleasure of finishing in style.”
The singer, suffering from lung cancer, is replaced on TF1 by Bigflo and Oli, new coaches of The Voice alongside Vianney and Amel Bent, Marc Lavoine having also announced his departure. Another “new” face next season: Zazie, who is back in the red seats. Which of these jurors will be able to compete with Florent Pagny and his nine victories on the clock?
The video of Florent Pagny announcing his lung cancer
In a video posted on Instagram on May 10, 2022, Florent Pagny wants to be reassuring about his treatment and his state of health. “I only have one chemo left, I can tell you that I’m doing very well”, explained the artist in his video, also saluting the doctors who gave him the most powerful treatment against his cancer. “I was very well accompanied by my half, my children, and then there were these thousands of messages, testimonies of love, support and good vibes”, he also underlined. “If all goes well, we’ll meet again next year to finish what I started: the 61 tour,” he concluded. Florent Pagny will indeed be 61 years old when his tour can resume.
Florent Pagny revealed that he had lung cancer on January 25, 2022 on social networks. A “special announcement” from the artist, who then pushed, during the treatment, the singer to put his career 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”, explained Florent Pagny in the video.
Florent Pagny, smoker addicted to cigarettes?
From the announcement by Florent Pagny of his lung cancer, on social networks, comments and speculations went well. More particularly on the supposed addictions of the singer, in particular to cigarettes. In 2016, on The sofa by Marc-Olivier Fogiel on France 3, Florent Pagny 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.
Short biography of Florent Pagny
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 Anything, manifesto against drugs. The 45 rpm, produced by Gérard Louvin, met with enormous success (1 million copies sold) and stayed 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 its 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.
Florent Pagny and Know how to love
stay true is the third opus of Florent Pagny and places the year 1994 under the sign of rediscovered peace. Jean Jacques Goldman wrote 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.
Who is Azucena Camano, Florent Pagny’s wife?
After breaking up with Vanessa Paradis, Florent Pagny met a young 25-year-old Argentinian woman, Azucena Camano, at 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, at the bottom of the hole and to surpass myself”, he added.
Inca and Aël, the children of Florent Pagny
If Florent Pagny can count on his wife Azucena Camano to get through the ordeal of the disease, the singer also has the support of his two children, Inca and Aël, who now live in the United States. Aged 25 and 22, they now live in Miami and New York respectively. Inca is passionate about street art, according to Here, when Aël studies photography. “She lives in New York. And then she loves photography. She went to photography school. She has a good eye and she’s really good at taking pictures, so she’s having fun developing that gift.” , had confided Florent Pagny on the set of Vivement dimanche in November 2021. And to add, about his Inca son: “once he had his pilot’s license, he went to do this painting and from At that point, all of a sudden, loads of people started calling them to come and do more murals.”