What a joy to celebrate his birthday on the boards. Born June 10, 1942 in Saigon, Chantal Goya chose to celebrate her 80th birthday on stage a little late… and not just any stage. On Sunday October 9, 2022, she performed her iconic show The Flying Shoe, written and composed by her husband Jean-Jacques Debout, at the Palais des Congrès in Paris, before eating a huge chocolate cake backstage. To sing to him happy birthday but also to applaud him very warmly, many personalities had moved to the 17th arrondissement of Paris.
Chantal Goya was obviously accompanied by her husband, Jean-Jacques Debout, whom she has loved madly for more than 56 years and with whom she had two children. But the author, composer and performer is not the only one who was entitled to his photo alongside the interpreter of Marie-Rose. Damien Nougarède, his producer, was also comfortably installed in a seat in the Palais des Congrès in Paris, as was the columnist Matthieu Delormeau, with his sister, but also Norbert Tarayre, his partner Aby and their son Elydjah, Ophélie Meunier, Salomé de Bahia, Leïla Kaddour, Jeremstar, Singuila, Jean-Louis Debré, Frigide Bardot with a T-shirt “60 years old and all his teeth“, Gilles Muzas or even Catherine Lachens.
There is one, on the other hand, who was not very welcome, neither during the songs, nor in the dressing rooms, after the performance. This is Pierre-Jean Chalençon. According to information from the magazine France Sundaythe collector specializing in the Napoleonic era tried to enter the lodges at the end of the flying shoe, with Luigi, Dalida’s nephew… but Jean-Jacques Debout would have asked his henchmen to send them back outside the room. “I’m out, fuck them!“, would have then exclaimed the former comrade of Sophie Davant, on France 2. The highlight of the show therefore took place, that evening, a few meters from the stage …