Before resuming the tour of her show "Le soulier qui vole" from October 24, 2020 to May 16, 2021, Chantal Goya was on the show "It feels good" on Europe 1. The singer took the opportunity to tell a story highlight of his childhood in Vietnam.

INTERVIEW

It is an anecdote that goes back to the time when Ho Chi Minh City was still called Saigon and Vietnam was under French occupation.

Chantal Goya was then three years old.

The

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singer 

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, who was born and raised in the French colony, stands up to soldiers of the Vietminh forces and saves her family.

A striking moment that the artist recounted at the microphone of Anne Roumanoff.

Chantal Goya was the guest of 

Ça fait du bien

to discuss the resumption of the tour of her show "Le soulier qui vole", which has already attracted more than 2 million spectators.

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"We're going to kill your father, say goodbye to him"

The Vietminh troops indeed come to Chantal Goya's home to arrest her father.

He is tied up by the soldiers, but the little girl intervenes.

"I put myself in front of dad who is tied up and I ask why", recalls the singer.

One of the separatists then replied to the child: "We are going to kill your father, say goodbye to him."

A sentence that could have paralyzed Chantal Goya.

But at 3, she stood up to the soldier.

A reaction that surprised even the militiamen.

“I said 'No you will never kill daddy, you will never cut off his head',” she explains.

"So the soldier looked at me and he untied him. Then they left."

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An action on the advice of his mother

The reaction of the young Chantal Goya is not entirely the result of chance, more that of the strength of mind of her mother.

"When you live in an isolated rubber plantation and have a mother who is afraid, we are screwed, we children," explains the singer.

"Mom always told me everything. She never hid things and she always gave us hope and great strength. It wasn't something terrible."

Her mother had therefore warned her of the threat to the home.

"Mum said 'you are going to see the children, there are the soldiers who will come. You absolutely have to be very calm in front. And if dad is attached, you have to ask them to untie him immediately", recalls Chantal Goya .

The three-year-old is surprised that this request can be made to soldiers.

"Yes, yes, we can ask. It will be very important that you ask," his mother would have told him then.

An instruction that the young girl respected and which saved her father and the rest of the family.