DJ David Guetta, who is due to perform in concert on Saturday evening at the prestigious Château de Chambord, expressed his astonishment at not having been called for the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games on July 26.
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On the lawns in front of the Château de Chambord, many of the DJ’s admirers wondered why the artist was not expected for the big Parisian ceremony.
“If you have the answer, you’re going to give it to me. Because I didn’t understand it at all. Globally, I am still between the 4e and the 15the most listened to artist in the world, not DJ artist [uniquement]“, declared David Guetta, 56, to an AFP correspondent before the giant concert.
“To give you an idea, Beyoncé must be 40e or 50e. But no one called me. And yet I am French and I love France. It’s like that!” he added.
Only about ten people know the exact scenario of the spectacle of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, which will last nearly four hours and begin at 7:30 p.m., and where we intend to “break the codes” by standing for the first time outside a stadium, according to the Organizing Committee of the Games.
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The ceremony’s soundtrack includes creations by musical director Victor Le Masne, mixing pop, symphony orchestra, choirs and electrotypical “French Touch” loops.
It will also draw on “other registers”, according to its designer Thomas Jolly, who reveals nothing, but for whom “France is Jul, Edith Piaf and even Nathalie Dessay”.
