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TRIBUTES TO JOHNNY HALLYDAY

WHO WOULD HAVE CELEBRATED 75 YEARS

Johnny Hallyday would have turned 75 today. Early this morning, the fans were in front of the Madeleine church. Happy, they celebrate their idol in music! If Laeticia Hallyday, Laura Smet and David Hallyday are not present, Michael Ketcham Hallyday, Johnny's cousin and "brother in heart" , attends the ceremony. Fans of the dead rocker on December 5 are meeting at 11 am on Friday, June 15, at the Madeleine church in Paris, where his funeral took place.

Not everyone can go to the island of Saint Barthelemy, become a place of pilgrimage for the fans of the singer who is buried there since December 11, 2017, the fans found as rallying point the church of the Madeleine.

This anniversary mass is an initiative of Bruno Horaist, parish priest of the Madeleine, who organizes a tribute mass to Johnny every 9th since the funeral.

Hymns like the "Doors of the penitentiary", "Hold the night" or "I love you" punctuate the ceremony. "Johnny is still alive because in our hearts, he's still alive," says Chris Evans at the end of his songs, the Mass celebrated by Father Horaist, started at 12:30.

David Hallyday and Laura Smet, for their part, paid tribute to their father who died of cancer on December 5, 2017. In the morning, Laura unveiled a photo of her wrist with a tattooed eagle. In legend, a "I love you" . David also chose the same symbol to honor his father's memory. The 51-year-old singer writes: "This day, not like any other, unfortunately resembles all the others ... I miss you every moment" . Their father had an eagle tattooed on the biceps and the 29th studio album is titled "Somewhere an eagle".

In Paris but also elsewhere in France national tributes take place.

In Marseille his manager Jean-Claude Camus and his friend Michel Drucker, will tell "their Johnny" as part of the 4th edition of the "Festival Books, Stars". In Viviers (Ardèche village where Johnny's mother is buried) a statue of the singer more than 3 meters high will be inaugurated.

Sébastien Farran on RTL did a phone interview in which the former manager reveals that Johnny's latest album "will not be called I promise you" and that "it will not be a posthumous album but the last album from Johnny. It's his album, he did it. A personal album that corresponds to him so much. "

Kate White for DayNewsWorld

 

THE POLEMIQUE SWOLLEN ABOUT

THE MEDINE RAPPER

The rapper Medina is once again at the heart of a controversy. The French rapper, born in Le Havre in 1985 and aged 35, is scheduled to perform at the Bataclan on 19th and 20th October, sold out. However this Parisian room was bereaved by the terrorist attack of November 13, 2015 causing 90 dead and a hundred wounded. Right-wing and far-right politicians, joined by several members of the presidential majority, such as MP Aurore Bergé, have stepped up to cancel the show.

Marine Le Pen sees an "incitement to Islamist fundamentalism" while Laurent Wauquiez denounces a " sacrilege for the victims, a disgrace for France", hatched by an " individual (...) posing as a 'islamo-caillera' ". The senator of Vendée Bruno Retailleau calls Gérard Collomb. He asks the Minister of the Interior to use "against this rapper the same weapons as those used against Dieudonné," the comedian repeatedly condemned for defamation, insult and incitement to hatred and racial discrimination . On the Twitter social network on Sunday, the #Bataclan and # Medina hashtags have been used extensively.

The 35-year-old Le Havre singer is accused by critics of hate speech and apology for Islamism. In fact, in 2015 Medina had released an album titled Minesweeper, with a song, Do not Laïk, in which he said, "C rucifions laïcards as in Golgotha. Polygamous is much better than friend Strauss-Kahn" or " I put fatwas on the heads of the idiots.

These words are taken from his album Jihad "" I'm a Djellaba at the day of the skirt "," I'm sufficient for Allah, I do not need to be layman "," Marianne is a tattooed femen "Fuck God" on the udders "," If I apply the Sharia thieves will be able to do more of handrail "» , also question

The rapper had to crack a forum on the website of the Obs to condemn the killing and defend himself by the same. "As an artist, I denounce all forms of violence, terrorism and other immoral apologies. I chose the path of non-violence as the majority of my fellow citizens through music to express my disagreements with my society.

" Do I need to point out to me, young rapper from Le Havre, to these academicians, philosophers, essayists that my speech is the epitome of the fight of Charlie Hebdo? (for freedom of expression, ed), " added the singer.

The association of victims of the attacks of November 13 Life for Paris reacted on Twitter, recalling that the Bataclan was "completely free of its programming, under the control of the police headquarters of Paris" and that it would let "nobody exploit the memory of the victims of the attacks for political purposes, as is the case in this case " .

For the moment, Medina has not communicated on the controversy.

Britney Delsey for DayNewsWorld

 

DEATH OF MAURANNE WHEN MAURANNE GOES BRUTALLY WITH HIS VOICE OF VELVET

The brutal death of the Belgian singer Maurane, found Monday night at her home in Brussels, caused a lot of tears. At the age of 57, she had just returned to the stage after more than two years of absence. In Belgium, Francophone artists and politicians hailed "a very big voice". "A committed artist left us tonight, Maurane, an outstanding singer, an inspiring voice, an endearing personality , " Prime Minister Charles Michel tweeted at dawn.

"I am devastated to hear this news. It's terrible. We have forty years of friendship, " Catherine Lara reacted on Europe 1. She had found Maurane "tired" during their last meeting. "But she told me about the future, she told me that she was preparing an album of Jacques Brel, which she was listening to. She seemed to be much better from that point of view, " she added.

"I can not believe that our voices will ever come together," said singer Hélène Segara.

From Montreal, singer Lara Fabian has hailed a "rare" artist, "bigger than music".

She was the figurehead of Les Enfoirés shows, she released ten solo albums with mythical titles.

Maurane is known since the late 1980s for his participation in a new version of the musical Starmania co-produced by Michel Berger. She had put her career in brackets in 2015 because of "vocal cord problems". But she had just begun her return. She had herself announced this return in recent days on social networks. "Today, I officially set foot on a stage after more than 2 years of absence. I will not tell you in what state I am ... You must be aware, " she wrote last Thursday on his Facebook page, before a party devoted to Brel in Wallonia.

Maurane was preparing a tour for the spring of 2019, in the wake of an album dedicated to Jacques Brel that was to come out in the fall on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of death. "Side album, things are progressing well since 14 models are recorded (...) A first single should come out this summer," she added on Facebook.

In 2000, she had released a more serious album, after the disappearance of her father, called You of the world, with one of his most beautiful titles, The Man who missed me the most. After a duet with Lara Fabian, You're my other, in 2003, she released a collective album with friends, When the human dance. She begins a breathtaking tour in France and Belgium.

She had given one last concert Sunday night and was preparing a tribute album for the forty years of the death of Jacques Brel.

Renowned Maurane will also be missed for his outspokenness and his angry shots.


Andrew Preston for DayNewsWorld

MAURANE DECEASED AT 57 YEARS

 

The Belgian singer was found at her home in Brussels more precisely in Schaerbeek inanimate in bed we do not yet know the cause of his death

After a period of absence due to health problems, a vocal cord surgery, she came back on stage taking the songs of the Jacques Brel recital while performing her greatest hits.

She had a tenor voice a beautiful voice and was very friendly.

His death does not seem very normal an autopsy will be practiced a judicial inquiry can be opened.

We will always think of her in relation to the success of her the interpretation of Starmania,

Also with his song, his album Morane, on a prelude of Bach, One for the other, Armstrong. Then the famous Armstrong tube sung in duet with Laura Fabian You are my other.

The variety loses a great voice

Mia Kennedy for DayNewsWorld

DEATH OF ROSE LAURENS THE SINGER OF AFRICA

" A frica, I want to dance like you" .

The cult tube performer of the 80s died at age 65 in the night of Sunday to Monday after a long illness.

His last companion Christian Soulié.

"She made you dance millions by creating Africa and singing When you leave, and dozens of other titles.

The flame of Rose Laurens has just died out following a long illness that she still resisted on the Cabaret Sauvage stage in 2016, " wrote his last companion Christian Soulié.

After the release of several singles in the 70s, Rose Laurens, whose real name was Rose Podwojny, played in the musical Les Miserables in 1980.

She released her first album in 1982, Derisonnable (gold record), written by her companion, the composer Jean-Pierre Goussaud

It is on this album that the title Africa has been published, which has sold more than one million copies.

Jean-Pierre Goussaud, composer of the singer, was also her husband from 1979 until his death in 1991 cancer.

The song "Survive", launched in 1979, was Rose's first hit on a music composed by her husband.

Boby Dean for DayNewsWorld