This Wednesday, May 11, Renaud celebrates his 70th birthday! To spoil his fans as it should be and celebrate his new status as a septuagenarian, the singer has just released a new cover album entitled “Métèque”. This Tuesday, May 10, France 2 had decided to pay tribute to the artist with the broadcast of a special program called “Happy Birthday Renaud”. An exceptional evening, filming of which took place a month ago at the Dôme de Paris, with thousands of fans in the audience.
For the occasion, several artists had answered the call and went on stage also alongside the singer who seems to be getting better after having been operated on several times. Throughout the evening, the singer’s greatest hits were therefore taken up and joyful archive images were shown on the screen.
A disappointing reunion
At the start of the evening, Renaud performed one of his greatest hits: “Manhattan-Kabul. Luckily, Axelle Red, who sings with him in a duet, had answered the call and was present on stage with him to perform the song released 20 years ago.
The piece was indeed unveiled for the first time in July 2022, was written shortly after the terrible attacks of September 11, 2011 and the second war in Afghanistan. If the tube is a real success on a global scale and is very moving, the performance of Axelle Red and Renaud did not convince Internet users at all.
“What is Axelle Red’s excuse for this carnage?”, “Axelle Red who manages to sing worse than Renaud : I did not expect that ! #Help!”, “In front of #happybirthdayrenaud, and seeing that Axelle Red sings even worse than Renaud… Mdr…”, “Renaud has unfortunately been ill for a while and tonight he seems quite well, but Axelle Red what a disappointment“ can we for example read on Twitter.
Renaud ok we don’t know it at best but what is Axelle Red’s excuse for this carnage?
— docnono2000 (@docnono2000) May 10, 2022
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