Macron said “we all have something of Johnny Hallyday in us.” Céline Dion was among stars sharing condolences. Memories, happy moments, songs and music,” Sarkozy said in December 2009, days after Hallyday, then 66, was hospitalized in Los Angeles. Sarkozy called the Hallyday family during an EU summit and giving updates on the singer’s condition during news conferences. Hallyday gave his first professional concert in 1960, under the name Johnny, and put out his first album a year later. Hallyday is also survived by two other children, Dave, a singer fathered with Vartan, and Laura Smet, whom he had with noted French actress Nathalie Baye.

Source: thestar December 06, 2017 03:56 UTC