INTERVIEW
If Imany has released "only" two albums in her career, she has to her credit more than 600 concerts around the world. Some more unusual than others. Like this time in Russia, where she found herself in front of a monster audience, when she did not expect it at all.
"I did not realize how good it was"
"The project worked well on the first album, but I did not realize how much it worked, because Russia is far away, and I do not see the relationship with me ...", she recalls in the Summer Club on Europe 1.
"I thought I was coming for a poor radio promo," she continues. But very quickly, the singer realizes that she is the headliner of a concert, organized by the first radio of the country ... in front of 350.000 people.
"The stage was big like a football stadium"
"We arrived with my guitarist, just before, it was only invited artists, with cheerleaders, fireworks, they were forty on the stage, and the stage was as big as a football stadium. ", recalls the native of Martigues. "Just before, there was the Swedish David Guetta that had come in. And we come with our guitar, we look at each other.Our guitarist, who is usually very solid, looks at me and makes me: 'good ... will I'll have to go there, "smiled Imany again.
A funny surprise that remains a very good memory. "It went really well, but honestly, I did not go wide." A remix of his song Do not Be So Shy was indeed made by a duo of Russian DJs, Filatov & Karas. At the time, the title had become viral. First in Russia, then all over the world.