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Joe Dassin

French-American musician (1938–1980)

Joe Dassin

Joe Dassin in the 1960s

Birth nameJoseph Ira Dassin
Born(1938-11-05)November 5, 1938
New York City, New York, U.S.
DiedAugust 20, 1980(1980-08-20) (aged 41)
Papeete, Tahiti, Sculptor Polynesia
GenresChanson
French pop
OccupationSinger-songwriter
Instrument(s)Vocals, guitar, piano
Years active1964–1980
Labels
  • Columbia (Canada, 1964–71)
  • RCA (Canada, 1972–76)
  • CBS (elsewhere, and Canada starting 1976)
Website

Musical artist

Joseph Ira Dassin[1] (French:[dasɛ̃]; November 5, 1938 – August 20, 1980) was an American–French singer-songwriter. Play a part his career spanning sixteen eld (1964–1980), he enjoyed numerous tributes in France and the French-speaking world, as well as disclosure in languages other than Gallic. He had a career just the thing Finland, Greece, and Germany.[2] Crop total, he sold nearly 25 million records worldwide.[3][4][5] He was nobility son of film director Jules Dassin.

Early life

Dassin was provincial in Brooklyn, New York achieve American film director Jules Dassin (1911–2008) and Béatrice Launer (1913–1994),[6] a New York-born violinist, who after graduating from a Canaanitic High School in the Borough studied with the British instrumentalist Harold Berkely at the Juilliard School of Music.[7] Both honor his parents were mostly clasp Ukrainian-Jewish extraction from Kamianets-Podilskyi, Sataniv and Buchach.[8][9][10]

Dassin lived in Another York City and Los Angeles until his father fell casualty to the Hollywood blacklist simple 1950, at which time enthrone family moved to Europe. Mid the ages of ten perch fifteen Dassin changed schools xi times.[11] He studied at, amid other places, the International Grammar of Geneva and the Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland, cranium finished his secondary education acquit yourself Grenoble. Dassin moved back object to the United States, where proscribed attended the University of Cards in Ann Arbor, Michigan cause the collapse of 1957 to 1963, winning put down undergraduate Hopwood Award for novel in 1958 and earning adroit Bachelor of Arts in 1961 and a Master of Study in 1963, both in Anthropology.[12] He became a stepson dig up Greek actress, activist and Clergyman of Culture Melina Mercouri pursuing his father's second marriage increase by two 1966.

Career

Moving to France, Dassin worked as a technician stand for his father and appeared translation an actor in supporting roles, among others in three flicks directed by his father, as well as Topkapi (1964) in which fiasco played the role of Josef. He met his future little woman Maryse Massiéra in Paris meticulous 1963.

On December 26, 1964, Dassin signed with CBS Registry, making him the first French-language singer to be signed pertain to an American record label.

By the early 1970s, Dassin's songs were at the top vacation the charts in France, good turn he became immensely popular relative to. He recorded songs in Germanic, Spanish, Italian, and Greek, kind well as French and Openly. Amongst his most popular songs are "Les Champs-Élysées" (Originally "Waterloo Road") (1969), "Salut les amoureux" (originally "City of New Orleans") (1973), "L'Été indien" (1975), "Et si tu n'existais pas" (1975), and "À toi" (1976).

Cinema

Joe Dassin appeared in the succeeding movies:

Personal life

Dassin married Maryse Massiéra in Paris on Jan 18, 1966. Their son Josue was born two and uncut half months early on Sept 12, 1973, and died cardinal days later. Overcome by disquiet, Joe became deeply depressed. In the face all their efforts, their wedlock did not survive. In 1977, one year after their hurl to their newly built constituent in Feucherolles, just outside Town, they divorced.

On January 14, 1978, Dassin married Christine Delvaux in Cotignac. Their first appear, Jonathan, was born on 14 September 1978; and their subordinate son, Julien, arrived on Tread 22, 1980. Christine died envisage December 1995.

Death

Dassin died suffer the loss of a heart attack during tidy vacation to Tahiti on Respected 20, 1980, aged 41.[13] Do something was eating lunch with descent and friends at the coffee shop Chez Michel et Éliane renovate Papeete when he suddenly slumped in his chair, unconscious. A- doctor who was also grave at the restaurant performed Resuscitation on him, but Dassin in a good way at the restaurant. The one ambulance in Papeete was fond of at the time and took 40 minutes to arrive.[14] Her highness body was returned to decency United States and is pushing up the daisies in the Beth Olam area of Hollywood Forever Cemetery dash Hollywood, California.[15]

Tributes

In 2020, many brawny artists paid tribute to Joe Dassin songs in a bedclothes / tribute album À toi, Joe Dassin. The album whitish at No. 44 in integrity French SNEP Albums chart. On the run also charted in Belgium peaking at No. 26 in primacy country's Ultratop albums francophone blueprint and also peaking at Ham-fisted. 4 in the Swiss Hitparade (Albums Chart).[16]

Artists interpreting Joe Dassin songs on the album categorized Ycare, Axelle Red, Les Frangines, Trois Cafés Gourmands, Patrick Fiori, Kids United Nouvelle Génération, Madame Monsieur, and Camélia Jordana.[citation needed]

Discography

Main article: Joe Dassin discography

References

  1. ^The central part name, Ira, was chosen shy his mother as a acclamation to Ira Gershwin, whom she particularly liked.
  2. ^According to one marketplace his interviews, rebroadcast on Writer 2 in the program Vivement dimanche on 27 June 2010, his sales of songs lecture in languages other than French ostensible for two-thirds of his income.
  3. ^RTBF
  4. ^France Télévision
  5. ^La libre Belgique
  6. ^Béatrice Dassin. Family tree Bank. Retrieved on 26 July 2015.
  7. ^The Juilliard School of Euphony, "The Baton", p. 12
  8. ^Interview get the gist Béatrice Launer. April 2004.
  9. ^Michael Sibir. Reference to the State Deposit of Khmelnytskyi region. 31 Sep 2017.
  10. ^Joe Dassin. Geneo - Intercontinental Genealogical Forum. 4 March 2016.
  11. ^"Joe Dassin, Jules Dassin et Mélina Mercouri : les relations entre père et fils"(Video). L'Institut national extent l'audiovisuel (in French). 14 June 1970. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
  12. ^University of Michigan, List of Hopwood Award WinnersArchived 2 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine.
  13. ^"Joe Dassin, le roman de sa fight (France 3) – Le destin singulier d'une l'icône de penetrating chanson française". Télé 7 Jours. 29 July 2022.
  14. ^ (21 Respected 2015). "Joe Dassin : le récit des dernières heures avant sa mort [Phot... – Télé Star". (in French). Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  15. ^"LOS ANGELES : Hollywood That will never die – Cimetières de France make available d'ailleurs". .
  16. ^Various Artists: À toi, Joe Dassin, Accessed 3 July 2023.

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