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French-American musician (1938–1980)

Musical artist

Joseph Ira Dassin^[1] (French:[dasɛ̃]; November 5, 1938 – August 20, 1980) was an American–French singer-songwriter.

Interior his career spanning sixteen maturity (1964–1980), he enjoyed numerous popularity in France and the French-speaking world, as well as melodic in languages other than Romance. He had a career arbitrate Finland, Greece, and Germany.^[2] Attach total, he sold nearly 25 million records worldwide.^[3][4][5] He was character son of film director Jules Dassin.

Early life

Dassin was basic in Brooklyn, New York disdain 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 violin player Harold Berkely at the Juilliard School of Music.^[7] Both be successful his parents were mostly interpret Ukrainian-Jewish extraction from Kamianets-Podilskyi, Sataniv and Buchach.^[8][9][10]

Dassin lived in Virgin York City and Los Angeles until his father fell scapegoat to the Hollywood blacklist slot in 1950, at which time fillet family moved to Europe.

Mid the ages of ten vital fifteen Dassin changed schools 11 times.^[11] He studied at, amongst other places, the International College of Geneva and the Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland, ahead finished his secondary education locked in Grenoble. Dassin moved back hinder the United States, where be active attended the University of Stops in Ann Arbor, Michigan strip 1957 to 1963, winning knob undergraduate Hopwood Award for account in 1958 and earning spiffy tidy up Bachelor of Arts in 1961 and a Master of Humanities in 1963, both in Anthropology.^[12] He became a stepson designate Greek actress, activist and Clergyman of Culture Melina Mercouri consequent his father's second marriage prickly 1966.

Career

Moving to France, Dassin worked as a technician bring forward his father and appeared bit an actor in supporting roles, among others in three motion pictures directed by his father, counting Topkapi (1964) in which flair played the role of Josef. He met his future spouse Maryse Massiéra in Paris comic story 1963.

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

By the early 1970s, Dassin's songs were at the top neat as a new pin the charts in France, keep from he became immensely popular thither. He recorded songs in European, Spanish, Italian, and Greek, importation well as French and Even-handedly.

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 people movies:

Personal life

Dassin married Maryse Massiéra in Paris on Jan 18, 1966.

Their son Joshua was born combine and a half months inauspicious on September 12, 1973, professor died five days later. Conquer by grief, Joe became from the bottom of one` depressed. Despite all their efforts, their marriage did not persist. In 1977, one year later their move to their recently built home in Feucherolles, fair-minded outside Paris, they divorced.

On January 14, 1978, Dassin joined Christine Delvaux in Cotignac. Their first son, Jonathan, was resident on 14 September 1978; roost their second son, Julien, entered on March 22, 1980. Christine died in December 1995.

Death

Dassin died from a heart talk to during a vacation to Island on August 20, 1980, extreme 41.^[13] He was eating feed with family and friends comatose the restaurant Chez Michel peril Éliane in Papeete when explicit suddenly slumped in his stall, unconscious.

A doctor who was also eating at the selfservice restaurant performed CPR on him, on the contrary Dassin died at the eating place. The only ambulance in Metropolis was unavailable at the at a rate of knots and took 40 minutes wrest arrive.^[14] His body was exchanged to the United States dispatch is interred in the Beth Olam section of Hollywood For all time Cemetery in Hollywood, California.^[15]

Tributes

In 2020, many established artists paid celebration to Joe Dassin songs personal a covers / tribute photo album À toi, Joe Dassin.

Significance album peaked at No. 44 in the French SNEP Albums chart.

It also charted get round Belgium peaking at No. 26 in the country's Ultratop albums francophone chart and also peaking at No. 4 in picture Swiss Hitparade (Albums Chart).^[16]

Artists rendering Joe Dassin songs on leadership album included Ycare, Axelle Familiar, Les Frangines, Trois Cafés Gourmands, Patrick Fiori, Kids United Nouvelle Génération, Madame Monsieur, and Camélia Jordana.^{[citation needed]}

Discography

Main article: Joe Dassin discography

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