Bécassine, Pandi-pandaor A rabbit. So many titles that rocked our childhood, and the childhood of many toddlers still, and which almost never existed. Indeed, Chantal Goya could never have offered these titles if fate had not led her to song. And yet, it was not earned as she confided in The keys of a life on South Radio a few days ago.
In effect, the companion of Jean-Jacques Debout confessed that she had never thought of becoming a singer. At the start, it was a journalist and more precisely, a war journalist that she wanted to do. “I wanted to be a journalist. I wanted to be a war reporter. That’s why I was learning English”she revealed during her interview before remembering: “I told my parents: ‘It doesn’t matter, we’ll find a solution. I have to speak English, I have to go to England. And right away, my father found me a family with children. children”.
Chantal Goya never imagined her career choice for a second
Chantal Goya assures her, it is not “no way“she who has “wanted to sing, nor to be known”. Finally, “it’s the meeting with Jean-Jacques Debout” which changed everything. But where does this taste for journalism come from? According to him, it is the journalist Daniel Filipacchi, honorary president of Hachette Filipacchi Médias and at the origin of the magazine Hi buddies that he created in the 1960s, which would have motivated her to follow this path.
And if the war in Ukraine is difficult to live with for the citizens affected by the conflict or the “spectators”, Chantal Goya sees in it an admiration. At least for reporters going to war zones: “I rent great admiration for great reporters who are going to Ukraine. When I see young girls who are 30 years old or maybe younger and who speak to us all sold off with devices, bulletproof vests… I say to myself: ‘what courage they have!’ Without them, we would know nothing. We would have no news”she concludes admiringly.
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