More than three months ago, Florent Pagny announced sad news: suffering from inoperable lung cancer, he had to put his career on hold to begin a cycle of intense chemotherapy. A shock for the whole profession, for all his fans but also for a friend who is dear to him, Anggun.
A link between two artists that the general public did not really know! However, it is not new, as revealed by the singer (who turns 48 this Friday) on RFM radio: “It was Florent Pagny who launched me in France. I arrived in France in 1995, I met him and he introduced me to his team“. The two singers never let go, often crossing paths on television sets.”Since then, we have kept in touch. When we meet again on TV sets, it makes us happy“.
And Anggun even shared a duet with her friend, who she describes as a man”faithful and loyal“: in 2015, on his album Always an Elsewhere, the singer finds that one of the songs lacks spice. “One day, there was this song which was written by Frédéric Château, with whom I was making my album. I thought it was a beautiful song, but it would be nice if it became a duet“. Neither one nor two, she offers it to the father of Aël and Inca. Right away, things are done, for her greatest happiness.
Not eager for compliments on the one she considers her mentor, she knows that he accumulates qualities and that the public perceives him: “It is not for nothing that he is one of the favorite personalities of the French” she exclaims in an interview! And it’s not today, when her friend is going through an ordeal, that she’s going to let go of him: indeed, recently, she gave her news in the press , reassuring his fans.
The Franco-Indonesian singer had indeed revealed a few weeks later that he “kept her informed“of the progress of the treatment, but that his friend was”very surrounded“so that it goes well. The great friend of Pascal Obispo is indeed accompanied and supported by his wife Azucena, whom he has known for almost 30 years now.