Five years after Johnny’s death, Laeticia Hallyday continues to uphold his memory and bring his work to life. asked by the parisian Regarding her future projects, the widow of the famous rocker has announced that she wants to work “since January” on the creation of a musical for the 10th anniversary of Johnny’s death.
“I would like for the ten years of his departure that there is a musical. This is my next fight, starting in January,” he confided in the newspaper columns.
On Monday, Laeticia Hallyday also revealed to RTL the existence of previously unreleased tracks from Johnny, which will be released “when the time is right”.
“There are still unreleased songs, even recent ones, but that will be for another time. You don’t have to go too fast, do too many things, ”she assures again in the parisian.
First project aborted in 2019
Already in 2019, Laeticia Hallyday’s artistic advisor, Michel Jankielewicz, was preparing several projects around Johnny Hallyday, including a musical about the singer’s life, which he planned to launch in 2022 or 2023.
“The idea is to create a fictional story around Johnny Hallyday’s successes like Mamma Mia! The musical written by Catherine Johnson,” Michel Jankielewicz had confided in an interview with figaro at the time.
a musical titled The idol of youthdedicated to the life of Johnny, it was also going to be presented in 2019 at the Casino de Paris, before being canceled shortly before its premiere.
The show, which celebrated the extraordinary career of the artist through 27 of his successful titles, had not been validated by Laeticia Hallyday nor by Sébastien Farran, at that time still Johnny’s manager.
Source: BFM TV
