David Hallyday can be proud of himself. On June 21, his new album was released, condensed with covers of songs by his father Johnny Hallyday, called Requiem for a fool. Among the reinterpreted titles, Requiem for a fool obviously, Blood for blood but also the title Lauradirectly addressed to his sister Laura Smet – whose mother is Nathalie Baye. Guest in our format In private withDavid Hallyday looked at this very moving song which he introduced to his sister in preview.
Laura Smet’s reaction was not long in coming: “I made her listen to it and she was really moved and so, of course, me too, because I can only think of her when I make this song. It was important for me to succeed and for her to be the first to be happy because it’s her song.” he confided to us. If he thinks about a possible collaboration with her, nothing is less certain, Laura Smet being an actress without much experience in the musical world: “She could sing with me. I’m thinking about it, but I don’t know in what form yet. […] On a live, for example. I would like, if she feels like it, to have her work on it.“
Johnny Hallyday and Sylvie Vartan, models for David
While he spoke about his very strong bond with Laura Smet and the project that they could carry out together, David Hallyday also returned to his atypical life path, he who has for parents Sylvie Vartan and Johnny Hallyday. As he so rightly points out, having such parental figures shapes the mind: “I learned a lot by witnessing their lives already, that is to say that when I myself began to do this job, touring and doing promotion, I already had a background we will say. I had already learned by force, I had life lessons which are part of my education, which I try to pass on to my children.“
The way he was educated was a strength according to him and allowed him to get to where he is today: “We come from a generation where our parents said ‘the kid has to have his own experiences’ so I’m very lucky in that regard. I don’t remember hearing. ‘Pay attention to this, to life…’ I had life lessons.“Not to mention that it was thanks to Sylvie Vartan and Johnny that David Hallyday got his start in music:”They saw very young that I had musical abilities, from the age of 4-5. And when I told them that my life was going to be music, composing for other people or making film music – at the time, I didn’t think I would sing already – they favored that. They saw that I was made like that.“The future has proven to them that they were right…
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