The ceremonyвЂ™s organizer Ahmed Obeid said that many Egyptians are fond of ClaydermanвЂ™s compositions, which include covers of famous songs from major movies. I never thought I would be able to be here with you after 40 years so itвЂ™s always worldwide tours and itвЂ™s always a challenge year after year to go all of these different countries with very different publics but that like my music, so I am really satisfied with my music career.French pianist Richard Clayderman will perform the ValentineвЂ™s Day concert on February 14 at the al-Manara Theater, Cairo, following his previous performance in 2018. I did many concerts around the world in 2018, so I went to China, South America, some concerts in Europe and this tour, the 41st, in Japan so itвЂ™s very important. It is a really nice thing to do and it is really touching. She gives me books, clothes, shirts, CDsвЂ¦, it is always very funny to see her coming and giving me her small suitcase on the scenario, so I leave the stage with her suitcase and the audience is always amused. I have another fan in Brasil who follows me around the world and sometimes I go to Asia and sheвЂ™s there, I go to Southamerica and she is there, or even in Europe, and she always gives me lots of presents in a small suitcase. I also have one fan in Germany who always sends me letters or postcards from the city where she is from and always sends me her city's weather forecast, so itвЂ™s always very funny to receive once or twice per month a letter from her telling me that itвЂ™s sunny or rainy, itвЂ™s very nice to receive it and this has been going on for years. I have fans all over the world and I always receive really touching letters from them. Tell us the most surprising thing that a fan has done for you. For me, every day is a new challenge so I need that ritual of discovering the piano and practice a bit, and of course doing a meticulous sound check is also very important. I always envy musicians who have their own instruments, their own flute or violin. Also Pat Metheny the guitarist, I really like jazz musicians.ДЇirst of all I try to be on time, in the afternoon for my concert, in order to familiarize myself with my dressing room backstage, the stage and to discover my piano, because often itвЂ™s a different piano so itвЂ™s not easy. I really like pianists such as Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Joe Sample, a French pianist that was extraordinary called Michel Petrucciani, an American pianist called Brian Cultberson, these are really my favorites. Well, there are many musicians I really admire, but mostly Jazz musicians. Apart from that I always like the most recent songs I am playing, for example for this 2018 Japan tour I did an instrumental version of a song called вЂњDans la Maison videвЂќ (In the empty house), a song created in the 70вЂ™s by a French musician called Michel Polnareff which is my favorite song at the moment. I was very lucky to be successful with the first song I ever recorded which is called 'Ballade pour Adeline' so it is still one of my favorites even to this day. I am equally super satisfied with the design of KORG pianoвЂ™s that are always really elegant and beautiful. So the two essential elements in a digital piano are the sonority and the action. And I have to say that for more than 20 years you have been really good partners with me so I am lucky enough to have a KORG piano in my hotel room during the tour, in my dressing room and on scene I play some of my songs on a KORG piano. And I have to say that I am really happy with KORG pianos because they bring me a lot of joy when I sit in front of a KORG digital piano, it is always a pleasure. When I choose a piano, the most important when it comes to digital pianos is the sound and the action. It is a daily routine that I always enjoy a lot. I practice for at least 2 hours every day, sometimes more when I have some recording to do or when I have to practice new songs to expand my repertoire for different countries and in those cases I might practice somewhere between 4 and 6 hours. My father was a piano teacher and we had a piano at home so I naturally chose that beautiful instrument that the piano is, so I started around 4 - 5 years and it was always a pleasure to sit on the piano and play.ay. I started playing piano when I was 4 - 5 years old.

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