He flew 17 hours to perform this Thursday, May 30, on a stage in Paris. Florent Pagny He will be at the Salle Pleyel for a benefit concert for Bleuet de France, organized by the military governor of Paris. She will perform a song called The soldier.
“Naturally, we have asked Mr. Pagny to be kind enough to address the topic that is so dear to us, that of the supreme sacrifice,” specifies Commander Clément Cognon, head of the office of the military governor of Paris, at the BFMTV microphone.
“Therefore, he will have the pleasure of performing his song ‘Le Soldat’ alongside the music of the Paris firefighters, with a custom-made arrangement designed by a military musician.”
“The heroism of our elders”
“The idea of this song is simple. It is to highlight the heroism of our elders who fell, particularly at Verdun. That is why this song embodies the evening,” he assures.
The soldierFlorent Pagny album song Grow with you, released in 2013, was composed by Calogero and written by Marie Bastide. Pays tribute to the soldiers of the First World War.
Called Sentinels of a Night, the charity event is organized by the army to benefit Bleuet de France, an organization that supports war wounded, victims of terrorism and wards of the Nation.
And Florent Pagny will not be alone, since this Thursday several other artists will also take the stage such as the singer of the group Indochine Nicolas Sirkis, Yvard, Les Frangines, Candice Parise or Electro Deluxe. Everyone will be accompanied by army musicians.
Anniversary tour in 2026
Florent Pagny is recovering from lung cancer, announced on January 25, 2022, which forced him to cancel his current tour to receive treatment. After months of treatment, followed by improvement and then a relapse that forced him to resume chemotherapy, the singer returned to the stage on June 30 in Nîmes, where he began a summer festival tour.
A health problem that did not prevent him from multiplying his projects. He hit bookstores in 2023 with his book Pagny de Florentreleased in April and sold 150,000 copies.
If he had not returned to the stage since then, the interpreter of To know love He had mentioned last November a possible return in 2026 for a tour to mark his 65th birthday.
Source: BFM TV
