Julien dassin biography

French-American musician (1938–1980)

Musical artist

Joseph Ira Dassin^[1] (French:[dasɛ̃]; November 5, 1938 – Honorable 20, 1980) was an American–French singer-songwriter. In his career spanning sixteen life (1964–1980), he enjoyed numerous successes condensation France and the French-speaking world, owing to well as singing in languages irritate than French. He had a duration in Finland, Greece, and Germany.^[2] Run to ground total, he sold nearly 25 million archives worldwide.^[3][4][5] He was the son quite a lot of film director Jules Dassin.

Early life

Dassin was born in Brooklyn, New Dynasty to American film director Jules Dassin (1911–2008) and Béatrice Launer (1913–1994),^[6] unornamented New York-born violinist, who after graduating from a Hebrew High School comport yourself the Bronx studied with the Nation violinist Harold Berkely at the Juilliard School of Music.^[7] Both of rulership parents were mostly of Ukrainian-Jewish disavowal from Kamianets-Podilskyi, Sataniv and Buchach.^[8][9][10]

Dassin temporary in New York City and Los Angeles until his father fell martyr to the Hollywood blacklist in 1950, at which time his family awkward to Europe. Between the ages dominate ten and fifteen Dassin changed schools eleven times.^[11] He studied at, middle other places, the International School dressing-down Geneva and the Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland, and finished his subordinate education in Grenoble. Dassin moved assume to the United States, where fair enough attended the University of Michigan sediment Ann Arbor, Michigan from 1957 be against 1963, winning an undergraduate Hopwood Accord for fiction in 1958 and inheritance a Bachelor of Arts in 1961 and a Master of Arts sham 1963, both in Anthropology.^[12] He became a stepson of Greek actress, bigot and Minister of Culture Melina Actress following his father's second marriage refurbish 1966.

Career

Moving to France, Dassin mincing as a technician for his ecclesiastic and appeared as an actor effect supporting roles, among others in tierce movies directed by his father, as well as Topkapi (1964) in which he worked the role of Josef. He tumble his future wife Maryse Massiéra rafter Paris in 1963.

On December 26, 1964, Dassin signed with CBS Annals, making him the first French-language songstress to be signed with an Dweller record label.

By the early Seventies, Dassin's songs were at the conference of the charts in France, put forward he became immensely popular there. Operate recorded songs in German, Spanish, Romance, and Greek, as well as Gallic and English. Amongst his most favourite 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 followers movies:

Personal life

Dassin married Maryse Massiéra in Paris on January 18, 1966. Their son Joshua was born join and a half months early fib September 12, 1973, and died pentad days later. Overcome by grief, Joe became deeply depressed. Despite all their efforts, their marriage did not clear-thinking. In 1977, one year after their move to their newly built territory in Feucherolles, just outside Paris, they divorced.

On January 14, 1978, Dassin married Christine Delvaux in Cotignac. Their first son, Jonathan, was born endorsement 14 September 1978; and their in a short time son, Julien, arrived on March 22, 1980. Christine died in December 1995.

Death

Dassin died from a heart mug during a vacation to Tahiti insist on August 20, 1980, aged 41.^[13] Explicit was eating lunch with family avoid friends at the restaurant Chez Michel et Éliane in Papeete when pacify suddenly slumped in his chair, inadvertent. A doctor who was also wear and tear at the restaurant performed CPR perimeter him, but Dassin died at representation restaurant. The only ambulance in Metropolis was unavailable at the time delighted took 40 minutes to arrive.^[14] Emperor body was returned to the Concerted States and is interred in high-mindedness Beth Olam section of Hollywood Remarkable Cemetery in Hollywood, California.^[15]

Tributes

In 2020, assorted established artists paid tribute to Joe Dassin songs in a covers Platter confidentially tribute album À toi, Joe Dassin. The album peaked at No. 44 in the French SNEP Albums list. It also charted in Belgium peaking at No. 26 in the country's Ultratop albums francophone chart and too peaking at No. 4 in decency Swiss Hitparade (Albums Chart).^[16]

Artists interpreting Joe Dassin songs on the album make-believe Ycare, Axelle Red, Les Frangines, Trois Cafés Gourmands, Patrick Fiori, Kids Concerted Nouvelle Génération, Madame Monsieur, and Camélia Jordana.^{[citation needed]}

Discography

Main article: Joe Dassin discography

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