A Johnny-Hallyday esplanade, in front of Bercy, will be inaugurated on September 14 by Laeticia Hallyday and Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris. “By baptizing this esplanade in the name of Johnny Hallyday, it is an invaluable gift which is offered to us, his family, but also to all those who love him and continue to carry in them his music, his freedom”, says the singer’s widow.
Calogero, Pascal Obispo, Patrick Bruel, Gad Elmaleh and Julien Doré, among many artists, will participate the same day in Bercy in a tribute concert to Johnny Hallyday, announced, Tuesday 1is June, his widow’s entourage and the Parisian theater.
101 concerts in Bercy
Entitled “Que je t’aime”, this event organized by Laeticia Hallyday will take place thirty-four years after Johnny’s first concert in this hall. The singer who died in 2017 gave 101 concerts there, making him the male artist who has performed there the most times.
During this tribute concert, under the musical direction of Yvan Cassar, who accompanied the star’s last tours, “Johnny’s voice will resonate once again in the room” offering a “Real immersion in the world of the favorite rocker of the French”, specifies the press release from the organizers.
The invited artists – there will also be Louane, Gérald de Palmas, Christophe Maé, Kendji Girac, Slimane or Maxim Nucci (alias “Yodelice”, musician-producer accomplice of Johnny) – will take again the tubes of the taulier.
1is December 2019, Laeticia Hallyday and Universal, the singer’s record company between 1961 and 2005, had organized a first tribute to the Olympia.
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