Marie Gicquel, edited by Laura Laplaud 1:56 p.m., December 05, 2021

Four years after the death of Johnny Hallyday, the musical director and conductor Yvan Cassar, decided to set up a choir to resume his repertoire.

He will go on the roads of France with the Johnny Symphonique Tour from May.

The opportunity for the many fans to discover the songs of the artist in a new way.

It took at least a choir of 40 singers to match the powerful voice of Johnny Hallyday.

Present in the Johnny Symphonique Tour, these volunteers recruited in each city of the tour have successfully cast and must now honor on stage in the coming months the songs of their idol.

Among them, Damien and Corinne, separated by 30 years apart but united by the same passion.

"This tribute concert interested me quite a bit since I have a family who are very fond of Johnny so I rocked in it since I was little", testifies Damien. 

Johnny in classic version

"The more we sing Johnny, the more we realize the difficulty of the songs,

Live for the best

 for example or

Envy,

are songs that require a lot of tone," says Corinne.

At the helm, Maestro Yvan Cassar.

The conductor set up this project by rearranging the tubes of the "taulier" to put them in tune with a symphony orchestra. 

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"He spoke to me a lot about that and the cinema and his taste for it and his taste for the orchestra in his own way," says Yvan Cassar.

"The power he loved, this project, it's just a tribute."

An opportunity therefore to hear again the songs of the rock star on stage but above all to discover them as you have never heard them.

The Johnny Symphonique Tour will begin on May 20, 2022 in Epernay and will continue on June 8 and 9 at Salle Pleyel in Paris, before landing in other cities in France.