Nikos Aliagas: 'I grew up listening to Fairuz and Umm Kulthum, whose songs my father played at home'

One of France's most popular television hosts, the face of the French edition of The Voice and a fixture on French television for more than two decades, Nikos Aliagas has accompanied several generations of viewers — in France and Lebanon alike — from Star Academy to some of the country's biggest entertainment events. Yet, behind this familiar media persona lies a man who has never stopped moving between different worlds: Greece and France, journalism and entertainment, public visibility and personal introspection.On the occasion of his exhibition “Les Grands Âges,” on display at the Musée de l’Homme in Paris, Aliagas spoke with L’Orient-Le Jour about the people who shaped him, his ties with Lebanese people, his fascination for the traces time leaves on faces and lives, and his passion for photography, which he practices as an...