Florent Pagny knows inside and out Chatelet les Halles station. As a young man, he was a bartender, rue de la Ferronnerie, in a club at night and an apprentice actor during the day, where he went to castings. But his major asset, he knows, is hisa voice, which he describes as a “passport to freedom”.
Maman Pagny dreamed of it, her son did it: to become a successful singer. In line with another magical voice, that of the prince of operetta Luis Mariano, who triumphed a long time ago at the Théâtre du Chatelet. Florent Pagny sings the below Les Halles, RER stationand despite the gray of the breeze blocks, the gloom of the corridors, hello sadness on the faces of passers-by, Florent manages to disorient us by following the tags of the taggers, like waves of galley.
“Sneakers on the forecourt of Châtelet-les-Halles never go very far”, yet Florent Pagny’s song has made its merry way, resumed during the last tour of the Enfoirés by Zazie, Jean Louis Aubert, Soprano and Julien Clerc.
From Harlem to Paris, rush into a train, and at the end of the song, there is always Florent Pagny