Florent Pagny, in remission, is currently on a promotional tour to sell his new work Pagny by Aël, designed with his daughter Aël who has already spoken widely about this intimate project and which has brought them much closer together. The singer now talks about his wife and pays her a vibrant tribute this week.
Paris Match decided to devote its front page to two singer friends who have already collaborated together several times in the past, notably last year for the album 2 Bisaround a cover of the title Pretty kid. Florent Pagny et Marc Lavoine agreed to answer questions from our colleagues as part of a cross-interview where all subjects, even the most intimate, are discussed. The first, who is currently in remission, three years after being diagnosed with lung cancer which forced him to put his career on hold, has once again spoken about the illness. Indeed, the interpreter of My freedom to think who had said he was nervous for the future confirmed that everything was going well for the moment. “I did a fifth check yesterday. Nothing is moving, but we continue to monitor”he explains for the magazine.
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In the new issue on newsstands on Thursday, November 21, Florent Pagny also explains that he encountered some difficulties when recording the title The last word written by Francis Lalanne and published last month, in support for environmental activist Paul Watson. “I hadn't been behind a microphone for a year and I had a hard time. I said yes to Francis Lalanne – his song was good – to do a track in support of Paul Watson, and I went realized that I really needed to warm up my voice. I sufferedand then the good verses like the good choruses arrived at the end of the session. But I had this little moment of doubt, where I said to myself 'damn I'm getting old'”he admits frankly.
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Florent Pagny's tackle on Marc Lavoine
Marc Lavoine follows suit and, while echoing his return to the red armchair of The Voice in 2025, he announces that it is “good for The Voice that Florent is there”. “It’s good for us that Florent is here! A guy like him shouldn’t die. So he’s not going to die”he wants to emphasize. If the singer of Parking des anges take advantage of this river interview to discuss the release of his symphonic compilation Revolverhe is also gently tackled by his friend about the young couple he forms with Adriana Karembeuhighly publicized, which would have tended to annoy him in recent weeks. The photos of their kisses in public in September, serving as formalization, had caused a lot of ink to flow. “He kissed her a little greedily. Everyone understood that he was in love, even she said: 'I love you my love, but hey, there are people, photographers…'”quips Florent Pagny who, in turn, evokes his own sentimental life in complete transparency.
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In fact, the father ofAël et Inca pays homage in a certain way to his wife, the painter and former model Azucena Caamaño whom he met a little over 30 years ago. The singer had also spoken very widely about their first meetings in his autobiography Pagny by Florent published in spring 2023. “With Azu, I had the chance to meet a person who suits me in every way“he explains, before continuing enthusiastically: “I think we're on our way to the end. When I look at her, I tell myself thatit corresponds to a fantasy. She's so beautiful, she shows off a little and she has an almost masculine side.”. “The boss, it's her. And I, who have always been an aesthete, well, that gives a real complementarity between us, we are a karmic and fusional couple”confirms Marc Lavoine.
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Shy reception in bookstore for the book Pagny by Aël
A few days ago, guest on the show What an era! on France 2Florent Pagny's daughter – Aël – had said all the good things she thinks of her parents, married since 2006. “I find them so cute, they don’t let each other go. They’re really a team, they’re so united. It’s an example”she said to Léa Salamé, before concluding that the idyll her parents lived was “love incarnate”. It is on the occasion of the publication of the book Pagny by Aël that the young woman had agreed to make an appearance on the set What an era!having also increased the number of interviews to promote it in the press and on television. His intervention in Seven to Eight (TF1) on November 3 was highly publicized!
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This book of photos retraces the last two years of Florent Pagny's life, in his fight against illness in particular, and his back and forth between France and Patagonia, this region of Argentina that he loves so much and where he takes care of a family farm. The interviews given for its release were for many an opportunity to learn more about the family's daily life through photos taken by Aël, and comments written together. Pagny by Aël made his entered 80th place in book sales this week, according to the official website Edistatfar behind Jordan Bardella's autobiography What I'm looking for (n°3) or the Memoricide by Philippe de Villiers (n°5), and the novel Prime Time by the writer Maxime Chattam (n°10), the companion of Faustine Bollaert.
