An event… At 80, Sylvie Vartan is preparing to say goodbye to the stage. At the Dôme de Paris from Friday November 8 to Sunday November 10, 2024, the singer will perform her greatest hits. She will then return to the capital to perform at the Palais des Congrès from January 24 to 26, 2025. If her son, David Hallyday, will join her on stage,
the star has shared duets with many personalities.
Thursday November 7, 2024, the interpreter of La plus belle pour aller danser answered questions from readers of Le Parisien. While a fan noted that she had shared the stage with many artists, she made a surprising admission about her ex-husband, Johnny Hallyday. “To tell the truth, it's only with Johnny that I've really shared a scenethat we really sang together”she assured.
Sylvie Vartan: “It was also a way of seeing ourselves!”
In complete transparency, the 80-year-old singer indicated: “I did duets especially for the Carpentier shows, on television, it was a lot of fun. But on stage… It's always the same story, you have to be free. With Johnny, it was also a way of seeing us!”. Almost seven years after the singer's death, when she was asked about what remained of him, she replied: “Youth, madness, passion, crazy love… And then David, it’s a lot”.
When a reader asked her if she was at peace with his disappearance, Sylvie Vartan, who shared Johnny Hallyday's life for fifteen years, declared: “Non, we cannot be at peace. How to be? It's a very sad moment. Also because things were evolving in a climate that was not what it seemed like. He didn't look like the person he was younger, who he really was. He was tired, not well, sick… It's sad”.
Sylvie Vartan: “He often came to our house”
Although she had been separated for a long time from Johnny Hallyday at the time of his death, the fact remains that she often thinks of him. “Yes, of course… Even when we were separated, he often came to our house, he loved Tony very much and vice versa…
He often spent time with us in Los Angeles…“she recalled.
In 2009, Sylvie Vartan and Johnny Hallyday sang a duet on the stage of the Olympia in Paris. Friday February 25, 2022, on the set of the show Allez Allez je t'emmène, on France 3, the singer spoke about their interpretation of L'Hymn to Love.
“It was one of the most beautiful songs, and I think it moved us. He sang it, and so did I. It was completely appropriate for our story“she confided before specifying that it was her ex-husband who was the first to think of sharing the stage with her.
