Viral Toulouse airport pianist-singer duo record album
A pianist and singer, whose impromptu duet of the Leonard Cohen song Hallelujah at Toulouse-Blagnac airport went viral online with over three million views, are to release a mini album.
The story began in February, when pianist Val茅rie Marie began playing a piano that had been set up for members of the public to play on at Toulouse-Blagnac airport.
A man who she did not know, Gr茅gory Benchenafi, then began singing along, and asked her to play the famous Cohen song.
The entire show was captured on video by someone in the gathering crowd, and was later posted on , where it has now been watched over three million times and shared 57,000 times.
Writing on her page, Ms Marie called the experience full of 鈥渋mmense emotion鈥�, after a 鈥渓yrical singer鈥� had asked her to play Hallelujah. It had been 鈥渕agical鈥�, she said.
Now, the duo of their new professional-quality mini-album, Une rencontre, which went and iTunes on Friday (March 2).
As well as a new recording of the Cohen track, the record also features a cover apiece of Every Breath You Take by The Police, and 尝鈥椭苍惫颈别, by the late Johnny Hallyday.
