To general amazement, Florent Pagny announced that he had lung cancer and was forced to cancel his concerts. The singer is going to rest with his family, including his daughter Aël, who has played a very important role by his side in recent weeks.
This is news that no one expected. This Tuesday, January 25, in a video posted on his Instagram page, Florent Pagny announced that he had lung cancer. “I have to make a somewhat special announcement, I won’t be able to finish my 60th anniversary tour. I have to cancel all of my concerts due to a health problem. Indeed, I have just been diagnosed with a tumor in the lung, a not very sympathetic cancerous tumor that cannot be operated on“, said the interpreter of My freedom of thought.
The 60-year-old singer, who can count on the unwavering support of his wife Azucena, will start in the coming weeks a protocol of chemotherapy and x-rays, which will prevent him from continuing his anniversary tour. Regarding the next season of The Voice, Florent Pagny has already confirmed his presence, stating that the episodes had already been recorded.
Aël was with his father Florent Pagny in recent months
The news of Florent Pagny’s illness obviously came as a shock to everyone around him. In particular for the singer Pascal Obispo, who came out of his reserve to support him. “Strength and courage in this ordeal to you my friend”, he wrote in the caption of a snapshot of them two side by side, in full performance. Support, the interpreter of Know how to love also finds some with his family. Father of two children, Inca and Aël, he has also had the opportunity to spend special moments with the youngest in recent months.
Indeed, young Aël, 22 years old, held a very important role at his side: she accompanied him to all his last concerts as an official photographer. As evidenced by many pictures posted on Florent Pagny’s Instagram page, it was she who was responsible for immortalizing her performances in Toulouse, Pau, Nice, Aix-en-Provence, Geneva, Grenoble, Strasbourg and Dijon, last November and December. Rare moments between father and daughter who have surely done the singer the greatest good, as he prepares to fight the fight of his life.