We always remember his first Cannes Film Festival. It is not Joyce Jonathan who will say the opposite. While she was invited to the screening of a Pedro Almodovar film and had just walked on the red carpet of the Palais des Festivals, the singer followed Laury Thilleman to a secret place to enjoy a musical evening. This little madness changed her life forever … since it was there that she met the love, the father of her little daughter Ghjulia.
Joyce Jonathan unexpectedly went to a funny piano-karaoke night. Sitting in front of the keyboard? A handsome dark-haired man with curly hair, “which reach a little below the ear“.”I sing and then gradually I move more and more in the circles, she says in the podcast Bliss Stories. And then as I approached I said to myself: ‘But he plays this pianist really well, and he is also not bad’. And since he smiles a lot when he plays, I thought he was smiling at me. Which was not the case at all. But so much the better, it gave me confidence.“
Me, I’m for the first night!
That’s how she spoke to him, as he played Bohemian rhapsody of the Queen group. “It’s true that I love him quite instantly and finally, after three minutes, I say to him: ‘I’m in love with you’, continues Joyce Jonathan. It made him laugh. But I was one of many. Finally I stay until the end of the evening, we talk to each other. And there I hear that he has a very strong accent, the Corsican accent. I really liked it. But I couldn’t imagine it would be my daughter’s father at that point. It was 5 a.m. We went home together. My hotel was across the street which was convenient. Me, I’m for the first night.“
They finally kept in touch. Joyce Jonathan, who was to go on tour for a month in China a few days later, finally decided to stay in Cannes a little longer instead of returning to Paris. The rest, we know it. Although the mystery has long remained intact regarding the identity of her darling, Martial Paoli, the 32-year-old artist is living unblemished happiness and welcomed her first child, her daughter Ghjulia, in November 2020. A pretty one. Corsican tale …
Meet Joyce Jonathan in the 153rd episode of the Bliss Stories podcast