Pascal Obispo has collaborated with many artists, but he has never been able to realize his ultimate dream: working with a famous singer who seems to have snubbed him for years. The 60 -year -old singer confided in the RTL microphone …
Pascal Obispo worked with many artists during his career. Among other things, he participated in the production of Florent Pagny’s album, Know how to loveand even composed the famous title of Johnny Hallyday, Swingwith Zazie and Pierre Jaconelli. But the singer-songwriter failed to attract the attention of a singer with whom he dreamed of collaborating …
Pascal Obispo: This singer who did not want to work with him, “I do not hide it!”
Pascal Obispo confirmed to Good Sunday showpresented by Bruno Guillon on RTL, that the artists called on him to collaborate with them. “”I do not choose the artists with whom I work, it is always they who chose me “he said before letting go: “Except one“.
Frustrated, the singer, now aged 60, revealed that he would have dreamed of working with an artist who, she never wished to ask him. “”I came to Paris in 1990, I signed my contract in 91. I only dreamed of one thing: composing songs for others. But the only person for whom I wanted to compose, I never worked with!“, He regretted.
“”It’s like that … I don’t hide it. I wrote lots of songs for her who are in my albums“, He resigned himself, before revealing who it was:”It’s Vanessa Paradis. When I arrived in Paris, I dreamed of working for her, but it never happened. “
Pascal Obispo, snubbed because of his friendship with Florent Pagny?
But why didn’t Vanessa Paradis want to work with Pascal Obispo? This one thinks of having an element of response: “At one point, I made a choice which was a little less ‘indie rock’ (…) after the first successes, like knowing how to love (Florent Pagny’s album in which he participated, editor’s note), We can no longer go back to a genre because we have a little label. “
But it is perhaps because of a more personal story that he has never had the opportunity to collaborate with the singer: “No doubt because I worked with Florent (Pagny, editor’s note) “. Indeed, Vanessa Paradis and Florent Pagny had experienced a romance in the early 90s, which had then finished. The old lovebirds had completely cut the bridges during the years that followed. No wonder the interpreter of Joe the Taxi did not wish to collaborate with the close friend of his ex-companion …