“This is for you Kylian, men”. It is with a punchline worthy of the greatest rockstars, that our national Gilbert Montagné concludes a video of just over a minute posted on his social networks, in which he pays tribute to footballer Kylian Mbappé in song. “Oh Mbappé, all your goals are magnificent, in the French team you’re magic…”, he sings, to the tunes of his hit “Les Sunlights des tropiques”.
An idea that came to the 70-year-old singer during a conversation with his writing companion, Didier Barbelivien, as he told it on BFM TV this Friday morning: “I said to him:” You saw, I’m really impressed with Kylian”. Because I watched the game. My way, but I watched it. He said to me: “It’s crazy that you’re talking to me about that, I have an idea”. I tell him okay, for fun. The next morning, I made the model in my studio. It was a pleasure. »
Gilbert Montagné even said he was surprised by the scale taken by his video, when “it was a delirium”. A delirium that went to the ears of Wilfried Mbappé, the father of the current top scorer of the World Cup. “He really liked it,” even believes the singer knows.