Like his famous dad, David Hallyday has embraced a career as a singer… but is also a composer, musician and lyricist. However, it was as a drummer and therefore rather far from the front of the stage that the son of Johnny Hallyday initially wanted to flourish. If he finally decided to follow in the footsteps of his father, it is thanks to his stepfather, Tony Scotti, the husband of Sylvie Vartan.
This beautiful journey is retraced in its entirety in an unpublished documentary, soberly titled “David Hallyday”, broadcast this Monday April 3 at 8:55 p.m. on Canal + Docs. Produced by Paul Belmondo, this film looks back on the life of Ilona and Emma Smet’s father, all thanks to archive images and beautiful intimate videos. The women in his life, namely his mother Sylvie Vartan, his sister Laura Smet and his daughters Ilona and Emma, but also some of his friends like Pascal Obispo follow one another to tell it and paint his glowing portrait. The opportunity to evoke his discreet personality, his talent for music but also his passion for motorsport.
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Raised in the Château de Loconville (Oise) then in the United States, David Hallyday lived far from his famous dad for a long time… before reconnecting with him thanks to the album Sang pour sang that he composed. Very close to Johnny, David Hallyday also talks about his very good relationship with his sister Laura Smet: “We became close from the moment our father was hospitalized in the United States” remembers the young woman in the film. .
Father of three children (he is also father of Cameron, born of his marriage to Alexandra Pastor), David Hallyday returns to the fact that he was not authorized to say goodbye to his father before his death, relations with Laeticia Hallyday having had a negative impact on the clan: “What my family and I experienced, the way it happened, which added to a difficult feeling where I could not, my sister nor me, my children, accompanying our father. Not having a second chance, these are things that cannot be repaired”. And Laura Smet to add: “To mourn, it’s complicated and not being able to say goodbye to the person you love the most, it’s torture, that’s it”.
We see that throughout the film, neither Laeticia Hallyday nor her daughters Jade and Joy appear or are mentioned… Enough to record the separation of the clan.
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