Chantal Goya "didn’t want to sing or be known"

Recently invited by Keys to a life on Sud Radio, Chantal Goya spoke of the general public profession that she would have liked to exercise if she had not become a singer.

Chantal Goya was last Wednesday December 21, the guest of Jacques Pessis in The keys of a life on South Radio. This show was an opportunity for the 80-year-old singer to look back on her youth, the highlights of her life and to talk about his new show On the enchanted road where she will be on tour throughout France. Her next show will be held at the Théâtre Sébastopol in Lille on Saturday January 7, 2023. She will also perform at Le Touquet Paris Place on January 8, in Toulouse on January 29, in Le Havre on February 11, in Nantes on February 19, in Bordeaux on January 11. March and in Biarritz on March 12, 2023.

“I wanted to be a journalist”

If Chantal Goya became known to the general public thanks to titles like Snipe, Pandi-Panda, A rabbit or Snoopythe companion of Jean-Jacques Debout could have made a career in a completely different domain as general public, journalism. “I wanted to be a journalist, she declared to Jacques Pessis. I wanted to be a war reporter. That’s why I was learning English. 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. It’s not at all me who wanted to sing, nor to be knownis the meeting with Jean-Jacques Debout [son mari depuis 1966].”

Chantal Goya has “a great admiration for great reporters”

When she was younger, Chantal Goya was nurtured by journalist Daniel Filipacchi, honorary president of Hachette Filipacchi Médias and the founder of the magazine Hi buddies which he created in the 1960s. The singer praises “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 wouldn’t have any news.” encourages the one who wanted above all to take care “unhappy children all over the world”.