At the dawn of the very last concert of her life, Sylvie Vartan was the guest of Pascal Praud on Europe 1. On the air, the singer spoke of her son, David Hallyday.
While she will give her very last concert on January 26, at the Palais des Congrès in Paris, Sylvie Vartan is in all the media. This Monday, January 6, she was the guest of Pascal Praud on Europe 1. The opportunity for the 80-year-old singer, who is preparing to say goodbye to the stage, to look back on the significant moments of her life.
Sylvie Vartan “very happy with the man she has become” his son, David Hallyday
Starting with what she considers to have been most successful: her son, also well known to the French, David Hallyday. “I am very happy with the man he has become because it was not easy for him”replied the artist with millions of albums sold, when asked by her interlocutor about the education received by the songwriter and performer, now 58 years old.
“Everything seems so glamorous, magnificent… It’s much more difficult to be a child of famous people, and especially I think in France, more than in the United States for example (…) There is a lot of jealousy (…) It’s not easy to find yourself, to become a man.”she added. Having become a mother against all odds in August 1966, Sylvie Vartan quickly left France for the United States to raise her son, the fruit of her story with Johnny Hallyday.
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Proud of her son, himself the father of three children – Ilona, Emma and Cameron -, Sylvie Vartan also recalled that he was a child completely desired by the couple she formed with Johnny at the era. “It was difficult but we wanted to have this child. He was wanted, he didn’t come by chance. Besides, I think he carries that within him: love”she confirmed on the set of As an aside.
And to Sylvie Vartan, also mother of Darina (adopted with her husband Tony Scotti), to conclude, strong in her choice: “I was told that it was not possible that I could have a child so young because it would stop my career. A lot of people thought that, but I heard nothing”. An unconditional love that the prodigy son will certainly proclaim on the stage of the Palais des Congrès in Paris on January 26 for the final concert of his mother, who lives between the capital and her home in Los Angeles.
