Christophe Maé is the guest on Wednesday on Anne Roumanoff's program "It feels good".

He looks back on his beginnings and recounts in particular his meeting with Johnny Hallyday, when he began to make his first parts.

A difficult moment at the beginning, but which today leaves him with a powerful memory.

INTERVIEW

He was not yet very well known, but found himself propelled to play the first part of Johnny Hallyday's concerts for several months, sometimes in a Stade de France welcoming more than 80,000 people.

A strong experience, in the face of sometimes hostile fans, that Christophe Maé told Wednesday at the microphone of Anne Roumanoff in the show

It feels good

.

"Yannick Noah warned me that it was not an easy exercise," recalls the singer.

"He was right."

And not just because a Johnny "who lived for the stage and came to life on stage" tended to be overwhelming.

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Christophe Maé was also very impressed by the Johnny Hallyday behind the scenes.

"It was very nice to experience because he had me looking good. And that was cool," he explains.

The first evening, before the concert, he is asked to go see Johnny Hallyday in his dressing room.

But the young singer does not dare to disturb the old rocker, who therefore himself comes knocking on his door.

"Johnny lookalikes looked at me askance"

Johnny Hallyday then offers him to go smoke a cigarette.

And give him a mission.

"Every night you do the first part and then you come to see me in my dressing room to give me the temperature of the audience."

A request that will be of great help for the young singer.

Because the first evening, in front of the more than 80,000 spectators of the Stade de France, the experience is difficult.

"I landed with my little songs,

On attaches

, etc. Johnny's audience is there, with Johnny look-alikes in the front rows looking at me askance", smiles Christophe Maé today.

"And there, frankly, I did not have a very good time. It was terrible to live."

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But he pays, as promised, a visit to Johnny Hallyday, who gives him valuable advice.

"Tomorrow night, play something on the harmonica, pick up one of my songs. Make yourself comfortable," he encourages.

"Tell them about me, tell them you were with me, that I'm fine and that I'm getting ready."

Christophe Maé had so far not dared that he could cover Johnny's songs in the first part of the rocker's concerts.

The next day, Christophe Maé starts his first part by taking up the theme of

the Penitentiary Doors

on the harmonica

.

“Suddenly, there are 80,000 people listening to you,” he is still surprised.

"And there it was beautiful."

Leaving the stage, Christophe Maé then hastens to thank Johnny Hallyday.