2023-05-25 11:45:00
Florent Pagny will be back on stage within a month. The 61-year-old singer has scheduled a summer tour a few weeks after finishing his chemo.
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« JI’m going to start singing again. “Florent Pagny is better and he let his fans know during his visit, Thursday, May 25, in Telematin on France 2. The 61-year-old singer, who has been undergoing cancer treatment for months, said that “chemo (was) behind (him)”. “As soon as the chemicals go away, everything becomes more fun,” he added. His fight against lung cancer is far from over, but his return to form, a month before the start of his summer tour, is reassuring.
“There, I’m going to start singing again. I’m going to go back to the studio, I’m going to rework, because it’s a muscle too, “he continued, a month and a half after the release of his bestselling autobiography, Pagny by Florent.
READ ALSOA year ago, Florent Pagny was preparing his funeralIt was he himself who announced in January 2022 that he was suffering from a “cancerous tumor” in the “lung” which “cannot be operated on”. At the beginning of April, Pagny had indicated to the 8 p.m. newspaper of France 2 that a recurrence of his illness earned him new chemotherapy. He had then conceded that this “relapse” could be linked to the fact that he had “done a bit of a fool for four to five months” by neglecting his treatment by immunotherapy, a great revolution of recent years in the fight against cancer. “But I’m lucky, the protocol works great every time. Now I understand, I stop not taking it, ”he assured Thursday.
“I’m getting back on track”
Asked if he would not leave for several months in Patagonia, the region of Argentina where his wife is from and where he has a property, he replied: “Yes, but I will manage to have the product that I need. »
“This immunotherapy is progressing so much that we should not deprive ourselves of it. For 5 months, I abandoned her, but hey, it’s over. Now I’m getting back on my feet,” said Florent Pagny.
“Right now, it’s nice, it was heavy, but it’s become more fun, but as we know it’s undulatory and it’s going to last a long time […]fingers crossed,” he concluded.
The performer of big hits like “Savoir aime”, “Ma liberté de thought”, “If you want to try me” or “Caruso” will begin a summer festival tour at the end of June. It will pass through nearly twenty cities, including Nîmes, Nancy, Sion (Switzerland), Spa (Belgium) and Ajaccio.
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