David Guetta was surprised this Saturday not to have been called to participate in the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics.
The star DJ “didn’t understand at all” not to have been asked for the occasion.
The opening ceremony will take place on July 26.
His phone didn’t ring. French DJ David Guetta was surprised this Saturday not to have been asked to participate in the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games, scheduled for July 26. On the lawns in front of the Château de Chambord, where he was performing this evening, many admirers wondered why the artist was not expected for the big Parisian ceremony.If you have the answer, you will give it to me, launched David Guetta. Because I didn’t understand it at all.“
An international figure on the electro scene, the 56-year-old Frenchman has collaborated with important artists since the beginning of his career, such as Rihanna and the Black Eyed Peas.Globally, I am still between the 4th and 15th most listened to artist in the world, said David Guetta, surprised, before the giant concert. To give you an idea, Beyoncé must be 40th or 50th. But no one called me. And yet I am French and I love France. That’s how it is!“Only about ten people know the exact scenario of the spectacle of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.
The event, planned on the Seine, will last 3 hours 45 minutes. She will start at 7:30 p.m. and hears “break the codes” by being held outside a stadium for the first time, according to the Games Organizing Committee. The soundtrack of the ceremony will include the creations of musical director Victor Le Masne, mixing pop, symphony orchestra, choirs and typical electro loops of the “French Touch”. She will also draw from “other registers“, according to its designer Thomas Jolly, who reveals nothing, but for whom”France is Jul, Edith Piaf and Nathalie Dessay at the same time“.
