Joe Dassin
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Joseph Ira Dassin (November 5, 1938 – August 20, 1980) was a French-speaking American musician.
Dassin was born in New York City to Jules Dassin and Béatrice Launer. He began his childhood first in New York and Los Angeles, California. However after his father became a victim of the anti-communist policies of Senator Joseph McCarthy, he and his family moved from place to place across Europe.
After studying at Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland, Dassin moved back to the United States to go to college in Ann Arbor, Michigan after doing very well on his baccalauréat exam. After college, he moved back again to France where, while working at a radio station, a record label convinced him to begin to record his songs.
By the early 1970s, Dassin's songs were on the top of the charts in France and he had become very well known. He was also a talented polyglot, recording songs in German, Spanish, Italian and Greek, as well as French and English.
He died of a heart attack during a vacation to Tahiti on August 20, 1980. He is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California.
[edit] Songs
- "Les Champs-Élysées"
- "Bip Bip"
- "Les Dalton"
- "L'été Indien"
- "Siffler Sur La Colline"
- "À Toi"
- "Et si tu n'existais pas"
- "Si tu t'appelles Mélancolie"
- "L'équipe à Jojo"
- "La ligne de ma vie"
- "À chacun sa chanson"
- "Ça va pas changer le monde"
- "Fais la bise à ta maman"
- "La dernière page"
- "Sylvie"
- "Guantanamera"
- "L'Amérique"
- "Le Chemin de Papa"
