Despite the illness, Florent Pagny wants to continue at all costs to do what he loves most in the world: to sing. This is why, on Friday September 1, 2023, he asked 20 of his singer friends to join him on stage to perform his greatest hits with him, in favor of the ELA association which fights against leukodystrophies. The concert event was broadcast on TF1. After opening the ball by singing his piece alone Instinct, he had reserved his first duo for Patrick Bruel. Longtime pals performed Anything, and showed their great complicity. After taking the time to hug her friend who is battling lung cancer, Patrick Bruel wanted to come back to their beginnings. “We were 20 years old and we had all our dreams ahead of us. We found the right partner to share these dreams and go further and further. We were in a bar where Florent and two other friends came to pick us up. […] With Florent, we sat at the piano, we sang, we had fun and then the restaurant ended up doing three courses a night because there was a kind of madness that took hold of us”he thus remembered the stars in the eyes.
Patrick Bruel is happy to find Florent Pagny “in good shape”
Carried away in his monologue and wanting at all costs to pay a beautiful tribute to the man with whom he began his career, Patrick Bruel made a slip who did not fail to surprise and make his friend laugh. “Florent is common sense. It is a very particular intelligence and above all an intelligence of the heart. I’m touched because he is as he is, because he hasn’t moved a bit“he thus launched before being cut by Florent Pagny. “If we talk about a bit, I’m going to say that it has still moved a littlebut it will get better, don’t worry”, retorted, hilarious, the 61-year-old singer who recently lost his hair due to his chemotherapy. Everyone in the audience also burst out laughing, like Nikos Aliagas. Resuming his tribute to Florent Pagny, Patrick Bruel wanted to thank him for his humility and all he could do for him. “I’m very happy to be here and very happy to see him in great shape. He is in top form”said the interpreter of Who has the right facing the camera.