Chimène Badi is releasing her first best-of this Friday, with her duet with Johnny Hallyday on CD for the first time on "Je te promis".

Guest of the show "It feels good", the singer looks back on this collaboration which marked the beginning of her career.

INTERVIEW

17 years.

This is the age of the song 

Entre nous

, the first success of Chimène Badi.

This Friday the singer releases a double eponymous best-of.

This one features an unreleased song in CD format, his duet with Johnny Hallyday on

Je te promis. 

Before her tour of more than 50 dates which will last until May 2022, the singer came to the studio of the show 

It feels good,

to explain in particular how the meeting between the two artists went. 

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"Like a plane passing overhead"

Chimène Badi was then 21 years old.

Fresh out of the

Popstars

show 

, she had not released her first album at the time, but her single 

Entre nou

s was already a success.

Johnny Hallyday then offers him to come on stage with him during his big tour celebrating his 60th birthday.

"It was crazy," remembers Chimène Badi, who then made her first scene. 

The first meeting between the two artists takes place at the Parc de Princes.

The young singer is back from Montreal, where she has just recorded her album.

She is in full jet lag and waits to rehearse with the singer.

"That day, he is tired, he has already done a lot of things during the day and does not want to", she explains.

But his manager intervenes, and Johnny Hallyday ends up accepting.

And the "Johnny magic" operates from the first notes.

“He opens his mouth, and I stay behind,” explains Chimène Badi.

"It's crazy what's going on in my ears, that sound box he had made me feel like a plane had just passed overhead."

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A collaboration helped by Læticia Hallyday

Despite the grumpy beginnings, the rehearsals between the two singers are going perfectly.

"He listens to me sing, and at the end he says 'You have worked well'", smiles Chimène Badi.

"He is a super generous, super authentic man, who will really give me a hand and accompany me afterwards." 

The singer had already evoked with emotion at the microphone of Anne Roumanoff her meeting with Johnny Hallyday.

She then explained that the singer's wife, Læticia Hallyday, is no stranger to this collaboration.

"I think she told him a lot about the new generation and the artists who were coming. Then Johnny listened to what I was doing," says the artist.

During his last tour, Chimène Badi paid tribute to the then recently deceased singer by performing 

I forgot to live

, a title released by Johnny Hallyday in 1977.