the testimony of a candidate from Don’t forget the words touched him right in the heart

This Thursday, December 12, David Hallyday sang with Benoît in Don't forget the lyrics. The participant in the show then confided about the death of his father, after his performance. A testimony that shocked the singer.

A month after his concert at the Dôme de Paris, this Thursday, December 12, David Hallyday sang a song on the set of Don't forget the lyrics. With Benoît, undefeated candidate for sixteen participations, he performed his song You didn't give me time. A piece that touched the heart of the participant in the flagship France 2 show, since he lost his father. “I realize that there are still a lot of songs that make me think of my father or maybe I'm just emotional here”he confides with tears in his eyes to Nagui and Sylvie Vartan's son.

A testimony which particularly touched Cameron's father since he also lost his father, Johnny Hallyday, on December 5, 2017, following lung cancer. However, Estelle Lefébure's ex-husband explains having written the song You didn't give me time for his grandfather and not his father: “This song was made for my grandfather who passed away way too early in my life.” A strong emotional moment on the set of Don't forget the lyrics.

David Hallyday: his moving confidences on the death of his father, Johnny Hallyday

In 2018, passing through the show Seven to EightDavid Hallyday revealed that he was unable to say goodbye to his father before the latter took his last breath. “I spent the day waiting to get into his office where he was hospitalized, and I couldn't do it,” he said. The father of Ilona and Emma Smet had therefore left a letter for the Taulier, which he was unfortunately never able to read. “I left it with the service person and left. When I came the next day, I was told that they had not been able to give it to him or read it to him. It marked me with an iron,” he confided.

Since the death of Johnny Hallyday, the singer regularly pays tribute to him. On June 21, he unveiled his latest album, Requiem for a Madman. An opus in which he mixes his texts with those of his late father. “My father and I said many things to each other, some wonderful and some more difficult. And I tell myself that he would have been proud of this album. He would have liked to sing it”he confides on this subject in the columns of Gala on September 19. It was then on stage, at the Dôme de Paris, with his mother Sylvie Vartan, and his half-sister, Laura Smet, that the artist once again honored his memory.