Joe Dassin

Joe Dassin is a famous French singer. The musician became a pop star in France, despite the fact that the language was not native to the artist. Dassin's songs sounded all over the world.

The singer took compositions already performed by foreign musicians and turned these songs into hits. The listeners found national motives in the work of the singer. But the main reason for the world's love for the musician was the special timbre of Joe Dassin's voice, which was called velvet and charming.

Dassin's songs were translated into other languages ​​and sung by foreign stars. This is how the hits “Where are you” and “If it weren't for you” appeared in Russia.

Joseph Ira Dassin was born on November 5, 1938 in New York. The boy's father worked as an actor in a Jewish theater, his mother was a violinist. His father's acting career was short-lived - he became seriously interested in cinema and soon worked as an assistant to Alfred Hitchcock, and later became a director.

Joe's family lived in New York until 1940, and then moved to Los Angeles. The boy worked part-time since childhood, although the family did not need money. He spent his free time with his younger sisters. Joe Dassin spent his first earnings on the Britannica encyclopedia. The boy loved to read and bought all the volumes at once.

The future singer lived in Los Angeles for almost 10 years. In 1949, his father was blacklisted as a sympathizer of the Communists, and they moved to France. Joe Dassin fell in love with this country, but a year later his parents sent the boy to a Swiss college. In 1951, the young man went to study in Italy, two years later - to Geneva, and received his bachelor's degree already in Grenoble. During his studies, Dassin studied 3 languages, became interested in swimming and skiing.

In 1955, Dassin's parents divorced, the guy painfully experienced their breakup. To distract himself, he decided to return to America and study medicine at the University of Michigan. After three years of study, Joe realized that he could not stand the sight of blood, and chose ethnology. He completed his master's degree, for some time he lectured at the university.

Joe Dassin became interested in music during his student years - he sang in a cafe, earning $ 50 per weekend. The young man was attracted by France, and he decided to return to conquer the French with his voice.

Dassin started as a folk performer, but by the end of the 60s he decided to change his repertoire to pop. In the same period he met Jacques Plais. Thanks to their collaboration, the world heard "Bip-Bip", "Guantanamera" and other compositions.

Joe Dassin rarely wrote music for himself, more often he adapted foreign songs, which became hits in his performance. This has often led to confusion. For example, some fans ascribe to Dassin the song “Nostalgie” by Julio Iglesias, written on the theme of the Russian romance “Black Eyes”, since it was Dassin who gained popularity with adaptations and re-songs.

The audience fell in love with the elegant singer for the unique performance of the compositions, the musician's low velvet voice penetrated deeply into everyone's soul. It was said that Dassin was born to succeed.

In 1965 Joe Dassin recorded "Les Dalton" - the disc with this composition went gold. Then there was the hit "Siffler sur la colline", after which the singer always went on stage without preparation.

In 1969, Dassin recorded another disc, the hit of which was the composition "Champs Elysees" translated from English.

By 1969, Joe Dassin was known in Canada and Africa. In the next five years, his records were sold in millions of copies, the tour schedule was very tight.

In May 1972, Dassin recorded the composition "Taka takata", which instantly became popular in France and Germany. The song occupies 50th place in the German charts, and Dassin recorded 12 more compositions in the same year for publication in Germany. In the memory of Russian listeners, the song remains under the familiar shortened name "Taka Taka".

In 1975, the singer recorded a song that became the most famous Dassin track in the entire creative biography of the musician. The new song is based on the composition Africa by the little-known Italian band Albatros. The poetry was written by the famous poet Vito Pallavicini, and the composition was originally performed by the then unknown Toto Cutugno.

The song was translated into French - this is how Dassin's hit L'ete Indien appeared, which in the Russian edition and rehash received several titles: "Where are you and where to look for your tracks?", "Without you" and even a tracing-paper title "Indian Summer". The song was distinguished by an atypical composition. In the beginning, against the background of quiet music, the singer simply utters the text and only with the amplification of the music begins to sing.

At the end of the year, the composition took first place in sales in France. Subsequently, Dassin recorded the song also in Italian, German and Spanish. But the track became a hit not only in Europe. L'ete Indien was popular in America and even in the Soviet Union.

In late 1975, Dassin presented The Golden Album and a collection of songs on two discs. Then another disc appeared, which included the most famous hits of Dassin Et si tu n'existaispas, which also sounded in Russian and in translation had the name "If it weren't for you", and "Salut", known in Russia as "Salute ".

In October 1976, Joe Dassin recorded the composition "Luxembourg Gardens", but the radio stations received this song without enthusiasm, despite the popularity of the performer. The problem was the length of the song. The Luxembourg Gardens lasted 12 minutes. After the release of the single, the radio stations changed their mind and put the song into rotation, where the composition became super popular.

By the end of the 70s, Dassin was already a world-famous singer. Ilfautnaitre a Monaco, Ca va pas changer le mond, A toi and other compositions have also become super hits.

During his creative biography, Dassin recorded 20 studio albums, traveled to dozens of countries where his concerts were sold out, and left behind a rich artistic legacy.

The successful singer was naturally modest and carefully concealed his personal life from outsiders. He was happy in his dream home, which he built in the California style in France.

In 1966, the artist married for the first time. Dassin's wife was Maryse Massiera. Seven years later, the couple had their first child, Joshua. The baby was born prematurely and died five days later. The tragic death of the baby destroyed the relationship of the spouses, a year later Dassin divorced Maryse.

The singer met the woman of his dreams at the age of 38. Christine Delvaux worked in a photo studio in Rouen, where Joe Dassin went to develop the film. It was love at first sight. On January 14, 1978, Joe and Christine celebrated their wedding. The wedding took place in the pouring rain, but the bad weather did not interfere with the happiness of the young. In this marriage, two sons were born.

In 1980, Joe Dassin filed for divorce - then his second son was not even a month old. The relationship between the spouses did not go well, and the singer made, as it seemed to him, the only correct decision. Joe painfully experienced the divorce, went headlong into work. His heart ached from constant overloads.

On July 11, 1980 at 6 pm Joe Dassin's concert in Cannes began. It was evident from the singer that the musician was not feeling well. Joe, pale and haggard, even tried to joke, but in the second part of the concert he lost consciousness. The musician was taken to the hospital, where Dassin stayed until the end of July. Dassin knew about heart problems - this was not the first attack.

After being discharged from the hospital, the artist decided to rest in Tahiti. During the transit landing, the singer again had a seizure. Dassin arrived in Tahiti depressed.

On August 20, 1980, Joe Dassin was relaxing with friends in a restaurant. The musician suddenly lost consciousness. There was a doctor in the hall who, for 5 minutes, tried to bring the star back to life, but failed. The great chansonnier did not live to be 42 years old.

After the death of the musician, the CBS company, which was engaged in his recording and promotion, reissued Dassin's discs and singles and released a complete collection of songs on nine discs and a collection of videos on Dassin's compositions. 6 million music and video discs have been sold.

With the development of modern technology, it became possible to sing a duet with Joe Dassin, recording his own vocals along with the voice of a chansonnier. The youngest son of the singer Jules Dassin and the popular French singer Helene Segara took advantage of this.

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