Invited in A Sunday in the countryside on France 2 this Sunday, September 29, Anggun spoke about the death of her father and revealed the last thing he said to her before dying.
This Sunday, September 29, Frédéric Lopez was on the air of France 2 to present a new episode ofA Sunday in the countryside. A meeting attended by host Jean-Pierre Foucault – who spoke of the tragic disappearance of his father when he was 14 –, comedian Arnaud Tsamère and singer Anggun. The latter looked back on her career and in particular her sudden fame in France with the song Snow in the Sahara in 1997. “It worked straight away. It was unexpected for me, it exceeded what I wanted, it was incredible”she declared about the million copies she sold in thirty-five countries. A success that she shared with her family and especially her father, who accompanied her in her beginnings. Very moved, she confided in her disappearance following lung cancer and their not always tender relationship.
Anggun opens up about his father’s death in A Sunday in the countryside on France 2
In A Sunday in the countrysideAnggun revealed that his father was not the type to show affection. “It’s funny because he was a man of letters but he wasn’t very talkative. We didn’t say ‘I love you’we showed it differently, it’s cultural too. I never heard it from my parents.”she described her relationship with her family. A father who only admitted to his daughter that he was proud of her at the last moment of his life. “My father had lung cancer, and I came back to Indonesia after all that to see him. It was really at that moment, it was on his deathbed that he said it [qu’il était fier d’elle, ndlr]“delivered the ex-candidate of VALLEY before concluding: “I am very very happy that he saw that I did something with my life and that ultimately, he was right, I needed to go through the shadows to know what a refusal is, the rejection…”
A Sunday in the countryside : Anggun talks about his complicit relationship with his father
Although he had difficulty expressing his love, Anggun’s father did not miss anything of his daughter’s successes. “He never missed any of my concerts in Indonesia. He was backstage with me and then he was in the room. I could always figure out where he was.”declared the musician, who felt “invincible” in the presence of his dad. Before changing the subject, Anggun admitted to having been touched by her absence during her concert at La Cigale where she sang in front of 1,000 people. : “I wished my father wasn’t here.”
