A meeting forever engraved in his memory… In 2014, Kendji Girac won the third season of The Voice with more than 51% of the votes. If Mika had been the only coach to turn around during his blind audition, he is not the only successful artist to have been impressed by the vocal abilities of the young singer. A few months after his victory in the emblematic TF1 talent show, Johnny Hallyday invited him to share a duet alongside him during an evening event on December 20, 2014. Ten years later, Kendji Girac still has stars in eyes when recalling his meeting with the late singer, who died on December 5, 2017 at the age of 74. Saturday November 16, 2024, in the show Le Grand Studio, on RTL, the interpreter of Que Dieu me pardon remembered: “When I was little, I listened to a lot of Johnny's songs. For me, it was immense, he was unapproachable”, before slipping: “I never thought that one day I was going to meet him, because for me, I even had the impression that he did not exist”.
Very moved, the 28-year-old singer explained about their first meeting: “There was a special Johnny, I had just started my career, and apparently he liked my voice, so he wanted to hear me sing one of his songs, so he invited me I was terrified I had the pleasure of bringing my father, because he is a big fan too, to have him in the audience. -what to speak and (…)
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