Charles Aznavour talks about his age, medications : his confession the most touching in the Gala concert

Entertainment 14 December, 2017

Music

A 93-year-old and despite a career already full, Charles Aznavour is mounted for the first time on a paris stage. The opportunity for the singer to deliver a few confidences on his life, but also to pay tribute to Johnny Hallyday.

Charles Aznavour will always surprise. For the first time in his career, the singer aged 93 is mounted on a large stage in paris : the AccorHotels Arena of Paris-Bercy. This Wednesday, December 13, the multiple artist success has, therefore, been given an appointment to its fans for a concert event. Always very sincere, Charles Aznavour has preferred to give the tone for the evening as soon as it came on stage : “I do not see you very well. At my age, the view down. I can’t hear very well, I have no more memory, but I’ll sing anyway. I’m not Pavarotti. Those who know me know that I have a broken voice. I was born hoarse, ” reports Le Figaro. But regardless, the artist has chained his greatest songs, ” The Emigrants “,” Paris in the month of August, “”youth” or ” Die for love “, ” Ave Maria “, “My grief” and finally “The Bohemian” and Take me”.

With this show, which is both intimate yet powerful, Charles Aznavour has once again proved that he was one of the pillars of the French song. And yet, the pains are present : “My hands are shaking. This is not the trac (…) I take pills against it, but not on the days when I sing. This is not good for the voice… “

After 1h30 of show without interruption, Charles Aznavour has opted for a very nice tribute to Johnny Hallyday in disseminating the title “something of Tennessee” with signs of light ” Thank you Johnny “.

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Charles Aznavour

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