After two years of absence, Florent Pagny will return to “The Voice” on February 1. His acolytes even gave him a size nickname … that the principal concerned does not fully approve!
This Saturday, February 1, TF1 will launch the 14th season of its famous singing competition with great fanfare, The Voice. It must be said that after two years of absence, Florent Pagny will finally regain his place in his emblematic red chair of juror. And his acolytes: his friend Vianney, and two little news, Zaz and Patricia Kaas who also signs her comeback after eight years far from the cameras.
“After so many years of good and loyal service …”
After ten years as a coach of The VoiceFlorent Pagny therefore deserved his nickname: “The boss of French song”. But the interpreter of Know how to love Has hard to get used to it! In the columns of TV 7 daysthe 63 -year -old singer returned, not without humor, on the emotional pseudo that his comrade and accomplice Vianney gives him. “For them, I was a pillar not to let go. While for me, there were lots of others, like Mika, Vianney, Zazie … And everything goes very well without me!”he first said with the humility that we know him.
And him to add: “It is true that, lately, something happened and my playmates call me like that. At the same time, I start to enter an age where, after so many years of good and loyal service … I spent the sixties, I am still there, I start to have a few ‘medals’. We obviously think of Johnny Hallyday.
Does Florent Pagny approves his nickname? “There is a time when you won’t see me anymore …”
Visibly embarrassed by so many compliments, Florent Pagny – who led the fight against cancer – then said that he could sometimes be embarrassed by this nickname “boss”. “Honestly, when I am called ‘Le Taulier’, ‘the boss’, I answer:’ The taulier is the guy who keeps the jail. I will not keep the jail, a moment when You won’t see me anymore and everyone will get out of melting without me ‘”he said.
And the interpreter of My freedom to think to nuance his remarks: “But I know it is a mark of respect, and, in addition, everything that happened to me a little sacred this dimension. I am lucid, and I live it humbly, basically, it can please me And flatter myself, and, on the other hand, I do not take it at the foot of the letter “. No shadow on the board to report!