Pagny by Florent
, autobiography of singer Florent Pagny, between childhood, career and lung cancer, sold nearly 32,000 copies in three days, indicates the Fayard publishing house, citing the GfK reference institute.
The book was printed in 160,000 copies, said the same source, confirming information from BFMTV.
The 61-year-old popular singer with 15 million records sold had announced himself on his social networks in January 2022 to suffer from a “cancerous tumor” in the “lung” which “cannot be operated on”.
Reassuring news followed.
Before the star announces a recurrence at the beginning of April to the 8 p.m. newspaper of France 2 with a lymph node which has “fixed” and earned him new chemotherapy.
His book is not just about cancer.
The singer confides in the blossoming of his voice.
“I would say I was born a second time that day.
I am so happy !
I am eleven years old and I now know what my life will be like.
Sing”,
he writes in the company of Emmanuelle Cosso, co-author, writer, lyricist and longtime friend of the singer.
The interpreter of
Knowing how to love
also returns to his love of youth, with another star, Vanessa Paradis, but also to his significant encounters, such as Johnny Hallyday.
His troubles with the taxman, source of inspiration for his hit
My freedom to think
(2003), also have a right to the chapter.