Florent Pagny has the reputation of having solid leather.
And we are not necessarily talking about his umpteenth crocodile jacket sported for this anniversary season of “The Voice”, “The Voice All Stars”, which celebrates the ten years of the program on TF1.
However, in just a few words, singer Anne Sila melted her former coach from the first verse of her delicate interpretation of Gilbert Bécaud's very apropos hit, "I will come back to look for you".
The pop and jazz diva, also a cellist, has let her hair grow, but her delicacy, charisma and haunting voice are still there. And the former finalist of "The Voice", who had overthrown season 4, came back (so literally) to upset this first evening of blind auditions bringing together former candidates from the ten previous editions of the most popular telecrochet of France.
Florent Pagny, her former coach, who smiles enjoying the moment, and Zazie, still with her back turned, are the first to recognize her and to whisper, “It's Anne Sila! "Both press simultaneously on the buzzer, followed closely by Mika and Jenifer then Patrick Fiori, the singer thus turning the entire jury, who rises from her seat to applaud her, wildly, eyes full of tears, carried away by emotion. "Anne Sila, I'm happy to see you," Florent Pagny slips to him while Jenifer wipes his eyes.
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“
The Voice
saved my life, explains Anne Sila in an interview. Back in the season of season 4, I was coming out of a traumatic event, I was lucky because I went far on the show and it saved my life. "The one who gave her voice to Nala, in the French version of the Disney film" The Lion King ", wanted to come back to rub shoulders with the exercise of blind auditions" to tell those close to her that she is doing better " .
"I hope you will come with me so that we can finish what we started, and it's true that if you don't come to my place, it will do something to me", Florent Pagny slips to him, still having at heart his defeat in the final in 2015 against Lilian Renaud.
After having listened to the whole jury, she will end up choosing him, without great surprise, because she did not see herself "making this adventure without Florent".
"Seeing you here, it touches me even more"
And emotional viewers had little respite ... since Al.Hy, another of the show's most popular figures, arrived a few minutes later. “When I step on the stage of
The Voice
, I feel trembling, I did not expect to stress so much, slips the young woman, always so magnetic, before throwing herself in the den of lions. "I am solid, I am solid, I am solid", she continues, in tears. From his first sung sentence of "Life teaches me nothing", by Daniel Balavoine, Jenifer, his former coach, turns around, at the same time as Zazie and Florent Pagny, then Mika.
The emotion is so strong that Jenifer throws herself in the arms of her finalist of season 1. "It is my favorite of all seasons combined, adds" Jen ", referring to the candidate who, at the time, was only 17 years old. We hear so much in your voice, you sing so much, it's so pure. I am very touched, I know that the development has not been so easy for you and to see you here, it touches me even more, ”she adds, sobbing, while Zazie throws herself on her to comfort her. “You can't see it, but I'm a solid person at heart”, concludes Al.Hy, before launching, staring at Jenifer: “It's you”. A declaration of love closing a sequence that will mark the history of the show.
