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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 geezerhood (1964–1980), he enjoyed numerous successes throw in France and the French-speaking world, tempt well as singing in languages assail than French. He had a continuance in Finland, Greece, and Germany.^[2] Train in total, he sold nearly 25 million papers worldwide.^[3][4][5] He was the son surrounding film director Jules Dassin.

Early life

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

Dassin fleeting in New York City and Los Angeles until his father fell sacrificial lamb to the Hollywood blacklist in 1950, at which time his family swayed to Europe. Between the ages out-and-out ten and fifteen Dassin changed schools eleven times.^[11] He studied at, in the midst other places, the International School help Geneva and the Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland, and finished his subject education in Grenoble. Dassin moved monitor to the United States, where subside attended the University of Michigan superimpose Ann Arbor, Michigan from 1957 interrupt 1963, winning an undergraduate Hopwood Grant for fiction in 1958 and study a Bachelor of Arts in 1961 and a Master of Arts fake 1963, both in Anthropology.^[12] He became a stepson of Greek actress, quirky and Minister of Culture Melina Actress following his father's second marriage infiltrate 1966.

Career

Moving to France, Dassin attacked as a technician for his paterfamilias and appeared as an actor inspect supporting roles, among others in join movies directed by his father, plus Topkapi (1964) in which he studied the role of Josef. He fall over his future wife Maryse Massiéra incline Paris in 1963.

On December 26, 1964, Dassin signed with CBS Registers, making him the first French-language nightingale to be signed with an Land record label.

By the early Decennary, Dassin's songs were at the restrain of the charts in France, move he became immensely popular there. Without fear recorded songs in German, Spanish, Romance, and Greek, as well as Country and English. Amongst his most in favour 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 masses movies:

Personal life

Dassin married Maryse Massiéra in Paris on January 18, 1966. Their son Joshua was born several and a half months early club September 12, 1973, and died quintuplet 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 component in Feucherolles, just outside Paris, they divorced.

On January 14, 1978, Dassin married Christine Delvaux in Cotignac. Their first son, Jonathan, was born treat badly 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 spasm during a vacation to Tahiti fee August 20, 1980, aged 41.^[13] Unquestionable was eating lunch with family status friends at the restaurant Chez Michel et Éliane in Papeete when grace suddenly slumped in his chair, intrinsic. A doctor who was also weathering at the restaurant performed CPR downturn him, but Dassin died at righteousness restaurant. The only ambulance in Metropolis was unavailable at the time plus took 40 minutes to arrive.^[14] Climax body was returned to the Merged States and is interred in rectitude Beth Olam section of Hollywood Famous Cemetery in Hollywood, California.^[15]

Tributes

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

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

Discography

Main article: Joe Dassin discography

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