Great anticipation for the return to Italy of singer Sylvie Vartan, who will share in a wide-ranging interview about her career and private life with Mara Venier. The appointment with Domenica In is today, February 25 from 2:10 pm on Rai 1.
The actress and singer has decided to retire from the scene and has chosen to say goodbye to the Italian audience for the last time from the living room of Domenica In. While waiting for the live broadcast, let's find out more about Sylvie Vartan.
Who is Sylvie Vartan?
Sylvie Vartan, born Sylvie George Vartan, was born in Iskrec (a village in the municipality of Svoge, in the province of Sofia, in western Bulgaria) on August 15, 1944 (she is almost 80 years old) to Georges Vartanian, a Bulgarian of Armenian origin, and Ilona Mayer (1914-2007), daughter of Rudolf Mayer, a Hungarian architect. The singer is 1 meter and 65 centimeters tall and weighs 56 kg.
After the Soviet occupation, their house was nationalized and the family moved to Sofia, then decided to emigrate to Paris in 1952, where Sylvie learned French and, thanks to the influence of her brother Eddie, a music producer, she became passionate about music. Her career began in the early 1960s when she released her first singles, becoming very well-known in France.
The career
The queen of yéyé, in the 60s she landed in Italy with a cover of Zum zum zum by Mina, translating her successes into Italian with hits like Come un ragazzo, Irresistibly, A cicada sings and participating in television shows like Double Couple (of which she sang the original theme Blam blam blam) Canzonissima up to a show dedicated to her: Meeting with Sylvie Vartan.
In the 70s the singer changed her musical genre to disco music and in 1973 the song J’ai un problème, which she created together with her husband Johnny Hallyday, established itself as a great hit. In 2008 Vartan returned to Italian television thanks to Raffaella Carrà who invited her to appear on her show Carramba what luck and in the following years the musician was also a guest of the programs Ti lascio una canzone by Antonella Clerici and I migliori anni by Carlo Conti. Among her most recent projects the 2013 film Welcome to Saint-Tropez and the 2015 album Une vie en musique.
Private life
In 1965 Sylvie Vartan married singer Johnny Hallyday and their love in 1966 gave birth to their son David who once grown up followed in the footsteps of his parents embarking on a career as a musician. The singer divorced her first husband in 1980 and later became attached to actor Tony Scotti with whom she married in 1984. The couple decided to adopt a Bulgarian girl named Darina together. Sylvie is also the aunt of actor Michael Vartan, son of brother Eddie.
The serious accident
In the 70s her career took a turn because of a serious car accidentthat disfigured her face and due to which she had to undergo several cosmetic surgery operations, but there were also other recordings, closer to disco music.
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