Despite the confinement, the remoteness and the lack of time, the "Taratata" team organized to pay tribute this Friday evening to Christophe, who died the day before. From 10:50 p.m., France 2's live broadcast will be entirely devoted to it for one hour with extracts from its six passages, from 2006 to 2019, and its fourteen performances, solo and duet, including "Daisy" sung as a duet with one of his muses, Lætitia Casta, during the last "Taratata" recorded in March just before confinement.
"It is the least of things to pay tribute to him," sums up Nagui, upset, on the phone. There are two people who work to edit the show. We're going to listen to Christophe. He deserves so much that we say good things about him, his loyalty, his generosity, his sense of humor, his genius, because there is no other term when someone is as talented as many years in such different styles. Always looking for perfection, the best of others. "
This Friday evening, we will review his versions on the thread of "Mots Bleus" and "Paradis Perdus", and his magical cover of "Perfect Day" by Lou Reed - whom he revered - with singer Phoebe Killdeer in 2009 For the 500th of "Taratata", Christophe had accompanied his old friend Eddy Mitchell on "Couleur Menthe à l'eau". Very affected by his disappearance, Mr. Eddy reacted this Friday morning in a short press release to AFP: “I lost a friend, a partner, a party companion. My sadness is deep and will last a long time. "
“Taratata” will also be offering its vibrant version of “La Dolce Vita” for two pianos and two voices with Juliette Armanet, last year. This is the favorite duo of Marie Prycko, the program's programmer. “I only have good memories with Christophe, she admits. He was very demanding on the sound but always of rare elegance, generosity and kindness. He just had to schedule his rehearsals at the end of the day, since he lived at night. In general, they were done just before starting the recording. "
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The best memory of Nagui? For private use, these are their meals. “We loved to eat together. The last text we exchanged was to go to our friend Hervé, who runs a Thai restaurant. We promised to have dinner together in April. And I blame him because he didn't come ... ”
"The permanent doubt of being right"
Professionally? "The strongest moments for me were the rehearsals of Taratata ," replied the host. The way he worked, the way he talked to the artists he sang with, the constant doubt of being right, of turning his head, of looking your gaze to find out if it was okay. Above all, he never did the same thing twice. He has done Les Mots bleus several times , he has never done it the same way twice. "
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Nagui also remembers the last song Christophe gave him on the set. "A piece of" Alkaline "from Bashung. He told us how he realized one day, thanks to a meeting sparked by François Armanet, of the Obs, that this song by Bashung was intended for him. In "Alkaline", there is Aline. And "the pink words" was obviously a nod to the blue words . It was a great emotion to see that these two artists loved each other. And we both miss the fuck. "