VIANNEY. The French singer and the British artist, who met in 2021, publish a joint song, “Call On Me.”
“I feel the loneliness, without you”, sings Ed Sheeran. And in French, please! With the French artist Vianney, he unveils, this Friday, a duet called Call On Me. A ballad, for two, in which the British pop star tries his hand at French. The song is a hymn to friendship, for these two artists who met in 2021. It was on the set of Taratata, on France 2, that they met around the interpretation of a version of the song Perfect, by Ed Sheeran, which they covered on Nagui’s set.
It was the start of a friendship for the two men, both young dads and born in February 1991. “With Ed, we talked a lot in the weeks that followed our meeting. I became a dad, he was recently. And then our mutual idols; Damien Rice, Bon Iver, football. And the guitar of course. Within a week, we are exactly the same age. All of this made us face a kind of obvious: we were going to write together. He wanted to sing in French; I was not against English,” Vianney explained in a press release.
So with Ed Sheeran, they decide to record a song, Call On Me, together, in the greatest secrecy, in the London studio of the British star. “At his home in London, I landed with my computer, my sound card and my microphone. He was in charge of the guitars. And in his basement we recorded things, including Call On Me, adds the French singer. And to go further: “Ed had just lost his best friend, and I had started a text in which I imagined myself bereaved of mine. We talked about that; the power of certain friendships, without which it would be painful for us to move forward.”
