Aël Pagny, daughter of Florent, was only 13 years old when she
falls in love with photography. This passion will become his profession. But before that, the budding artist will train at the prestigious Parsons School of Design in New York City. It was there that she began her career as an independent photographer. Father and daughter will meet again on a joint project a few years later.
In 2021Florent Pagny asks his daughter toimmortalize your tourunfortunately interrupted by her cancer. This collaboration now gives birth to a book of unpublished photos, Pagny by Aëlin bookstores on November 6. The 22-year-old young woman pays tribute to her father in an intimate but modest way through a series of photos captured between the stage and the backstage.
Florent Pagny: the rare confidences of his daughter Aël
Turning the pages of Pagny by Aëlwe discover photos of the mother of the twenty-something. Azucena Caamaño is caught on the spot singing along backstage at her former companion's concerts. “He often messes upassures his daughter in the columns of the magazine VSD, because otherwise, she doesn't sing at all.”
The discreet South American painter captured the heart of Florent Pagny in 1992, at the age of 25. This beautiful story was crowned by a marriage in 2006, but also the birth of two children, Incawho came into the world in 1996, and Aelin 1999. Proof of this unwavering love, the interpreter of My freedom to sing dedicated an entire album to his wife, Grow old with you, in November 2013.
Aël Pagny: “Our parents explained it to us…”
Still in the same interview, Aël Pagny says she has no precise memory of the moment when she became aware of
the fame of
his father in France. “For my brother and me, he's dad, for others, it's Florent Pagny, the singersays the young woman. Our parents have always explained it to us, there was no shock.”
Azucena's daughter nevertheless remembers a
“click”. “I still have a memory of an after-concert where we went out in the car, he stopped to sign autographs, he was surrounded by dozens of people,”
she mentions, maintaining that she was not “shocked” because she had then visualized clearly.
