“I get up and I push you around, you don’t wake up, as usual”, “And now, the end is near. And so I face the final curtain”. Claude François in French, Frank Sinatra in English. “As usual” for the first. “My Way”, for the second. The ideal song to build a bridge over the Atlantic between Paris and Los Angeles this Sunday evening. It will clearly be one of the highlights of the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games. According to our information, it is the singer Yseult who will perform “My Way”, this American classic which was first a French creation co-written by Jacques Revaux, Gilles Thibault and Claude François himself.
The 29-year-old artist, discovered by the talent show “Nouvelle Star” in 2013 where she made it to the finals, a female revelation at the Victoires de la Musique in 2021, is preparing a breathtaking performance according to some indiscretions. The singer, who recently entered the legendary American Billboard thanks to the song “Alibi” in a trio with Sevdaliza and Pabllo Vittar, must conclude the evening as Celine Dion did for the opening with “Hymne à l’amour” by Édith Piaf. The lyrics of Sinatra’s song – “And now, the end is near, I am facing the final curtain” – will take on all the more meaning.
Before that, we also expect performances by Air, Phoenix and Angèle, some lyrical classics and probably a few more surprises. This closing ceremony should make the Stade de France shine brightly, but not only that.
According to our information, the director Thomas Jolly and his musical director Victor Le Masne have planned a sequence with Zaho de Sagazan at the Tuileries where the Olympic cauldron is located that amazes the audience every evening. The 24-year-old singer, who won four trophies at the last Victoires de la Musique, will be accompanied by around thirty backing singers. Although we don’t yet know what song the artist will perform, whose first album “La symphonie des éclairs” is one of the sensations of the season, she will be highly anticipated after her formidable cover of David Bowie’s “Modern Love” at the opening ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival in May.
