Our genetic memory, the memory of people who were born in the Soviet Union, always tells us the traditional association with the word "France" - we immediately recall the Eiffel Tower, wine, cheese, Mireille Mathieu, Alain Delon, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Joe Dassin. And not all know that Joe Dassin, a man whose velvety voice is perhaps the symbol of all that we know or represent nafantizirovali Statement of France, in fact, American.

The famous singer and was born in the heart is not as our beloved America, in New York, and this event occurred on Nov. 5, 1938. Joe's father, Jules Dassin, French Jew of Russian (or rather Odessa) origin, was first a theater actor, and then, thanks to the hard work and talent, became one of the most famous Hollywood directors of the 1940s. The mother of the future stars, Beatrice Lohner, had Hungarian roots and was a violinist in one of the most famous American orchestras. It's safe to say that childhood Joe was happy, even like a fairy tale and do not fit into a regular star standard "I was a nobody, and become all" - up to 12 years, he lived in a big beautiful house in California with her parents and two sisters, Ricky and Julie.

However, in 1950, Dassin family was forced to leave home place. Jules Dassin was known for his socialist views, which are particularly evident in his films, affecting ostrosotsialnye theme. It is therefore not surprising that it became one of the first victims of the unfolding in the United States since the late 40s "Jota witch" when everyone who was suspected of sympathy for the Soviet Union or communist ideology, lose their jobs and sometimes freedom. To feed his family, Jules Dassin decided to move to France.

Since then, the fate of Joe Dassin was inextricably linked with that country .  He eagerly absorbed the French culture (the good, the French language, as well as several other European languages, he knew from an early age), moonlights as an assistant on the set of his father .  However, major changes in family life (parental divorce) and the youthful desire for new knowledge to change the situation motivate the youth to return to the US for education .  Joe Dassin became a medical student, but after three years of study understands that the medical profession is not his vocation (so he did not stand the sight of blood) and selects the department, which is interesting to him - Faculty of Ethnology .  Striving for independence, Joe does not count on his father's money, and earning their .  And what could be earning a student? At first "dirty work" (plumber, garbage man, a truck driver) and then singing songs with a guitar in small eatery a couple with a fellow Frenchman .  That this was the first stage experience of the future idol of millions .

Having been in America, the degree of Doctor of Ethnology, Dassin returned to France, where there was a final twist in the direction of his music. First he got a job at a radio station RTL, and where he met with Maryse, the woman who played a very important role in his life. It Maryse, is madly in love in a joking American songs performed by Joe, talked, literally forced to write these songs in the style of country music on a phonograph record and gave her friends to listen to music producers. Those newfound talent appreciated artist and he has offered to record a professional album.

I must say that the first songs Dassin, performed in English, did not find an adequate response from the French students .  But when he "switched" on the French lyrical love songs, he waited success .  The factors for this success were and help Maryse, who became his press secretary and agent and personal assistant, and in 1966, and his wife; and a private fantastic performance and Brought almost to the degree of maniacal pursuit of perfection (which is characteristic of the talented people who are not formally "professionals" in the business); and incredible luck with the authors of texts and composers, among which should be called Jacques PLE, Lemesle Claude Pierre Delanoe, and that created an incredible amount of hits that have become symbols of the second half of the 1960s - 1970s .  Since 1965, when Joe released his first CD with French songs, and until 1980 he was the most successful performer not only in France but throughout Europe .

It is working together with the not too successful personal life caused the early departure from the life Dassin .  With his first wife, Maryse, he broke up in 1973, shortly after the death of their newborn baby .  Acquainted three years later, with Christine Delvaux, a saleswoman in Photoshop, Joe the second time married in January 1978, and several months later became a father - his son was born Jonathan .  However, from that moment we began growing problem .  With the birth of a weak heart, Dassin aggravated their health improvement fanatical and overly large number of performances that are not in our example it modern "stars" were always "live" .  There is a version that played a role and drugs - Christine, with whom relations have soured since late singer in 1978, began to take cocaine and, according to some, he sucked into drug addiction and Joe .  The validity of these assumptions is debatable, but, be that as it may, the health problems were present (at the beginning of 1980, Joe fainted during the performance), as well as the turmoil in his personal life .  Although born in March of the same year a second son, Julien, shortly thereafter, began divorce proceedings .  While having a break in Tahiti August 22 1980 Joe Dassin heart stopped .  He was not yet 42 years old and ...

Alexander Babitsky

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