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Biography
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Son of singer Joe Dassin and grandson of director Jules Dassin, Julien was born on March 22, 1980 in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris. Julien grew up in Fescherols, on the family estate that Joe built, along with his mother Christine and brother Jonathan, who is one year older than him.
In 1995, he learned about his mother's memoirs, which she worked on with the record company (Sony Music), which still released his father's records. But the 15th anniversary of the singer's death was especially sad because Christina also passed away in December.
In 2000, he took an active part in the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the death of Joe Dassin, collaborating with Sony Music on a compilation album, more than 500,000 copies of which would subsequently be sold. He participated in the recording of several television shows. Thus, he met important people in the world of music, who provided him with the necessary support in the development of artistic abilities.
He recorded many songs after studying singing and body language, notably with Regina Perry (Starmania, Romeo and Juliet). But since most of them, as it turned out, did not correspond to Julien's artistic aspirations, he decided not to publish them!
He devoted the whole of 2005 to the creation and promotion of the 25th Death Anniversary Best Songs Collection, which included 4 new songs by Joe Dassin, miraculously found a year earlier, and which had never been released before. He constantly visited television and radio shows, Julien was more and more under the scrutiny of the public (starred on the covers of magazines, took part in French and international TV documentaries). This was highly appreciated by the audience and television professionals. The success of the "Eternel" compilation was exceptional: over 300,000 copies sold within a few months. Now, funds mass media and his fans began to closely follow the career of Julien Dassin!
Four years later, Julien first appeared on the stage of a famous theater, where he played a young journalist in the play "La Parenthese". In parallel, he worked closely with Barratier (Director of Choristes, Faubourg 36, etc.) on the tribute show "Il était une fois Joe Dassin" ("Once upon a time there was Joe Dassin"), which was presented on the stage of the Grand Rex in Paris, and then toured other cities in France.
Julien continued to train his vocal abilities, and began creating a tribute to the songs of Yves Montand, "Monsieur Montant", which he then released worldwide, as well as in Russia. This album was very important for him, because his grandfather, Jules Dassin, who fled Hollywood because of the terrible witch hunt led by the infamous Senator McCarthy, was met in France by Yves Montand and his wife Simone Signoret!
Julien Dassin (Julian Dassin)
Children of talented parents do not always have the opportunity to fully reveal their inner potential. Several things can interfere with them. First, it's hard to get out of the shadows famous father or mother. Children may long years evaluate not according to their merits, but from the point of view of the degree of similarity or dissimilarity to eminent parents. Not everyone is able to withstand such a test.
Secondly, not all children are ready to make efforts to achieve their own results, having everything in literally at hand. A pleasant exception to the rule was Julian Dassin - the son of the famous French performer Joe Dassin, who is rightly compared with the famous "Taganka bard" Vladimir Vysotsky.
The producers were skeptical about the chances of the son of an eminent father to enter the French stage. The manner of performance and style of Joe Dassin were so unique in form and content that the public could simply not accept anyone else. As often happens, life put everything in its place.
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Parents always help children, literally and figuratively, take the first steps in life. Julian Dassin was no exception in this regard. In order to tell about himself to the French public, he decided to give this public a gift. In 2011, previously unpublished recordings by Joe Dassin were released, and with them the music world heard several compositions by the chansonnier's son.
No wonder they say that good deeds are rewarded. The French appreciated the work of the young musician so positively that the producers decided to try to work with him. The most difficult thing was the selection of repertoire for Julian. On the one hand, I did not want to make him a double of the famous father. On the other hand, too much difference could alienate the audience.
Solomon's decision was prompted by fate itself. The network got a few amateur recordings of Julian Dassin. In just a few days, the audience liked them so much that further searches for a creative image for young man turned out to be unnecessary. Young, handsome, lyrical, charming - all this was said about Julian. Many eminent performers of the French and European scene wanted to perform with him.
The first successful duet was a concert with Florence Xote, held in the suburbs of Paris. Completely different in type and style, the vocalists complemented each other so well on stage that it was impossible not to notice. Over the next three years, Julian recorded several MP3s, each of which reached high positions in the national and European charts.
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Joe Dassin has said many times that he will leave the stage at 40. Glory, world tours, gold and platinum discs - everything is already there, it's not a pity to leave. In 1978, the son Jonathan was born, it was possible to deal only with the family.
But ... In July 1978, Dassin, the only foreign artist, was invited to Moscow to a gala concert in honor of the opening of the Cosmos Hotel. He sang there together with Alla Pugacheva. Homeland of ancestors (both grandfathers and grandmothers of Dassin emigrated at the beginning of the twentieth century from Russian Empire) met famous singer adoration. The audience at the concert at Cosmos, who did not know French, sang along with Dassin. And he decided to give a grandiose tour throughout the USSR, from Siberia to Leningrad. The sudden death of the singer from a heart attack in August 1980 cut everything off.
And now, in 2016, Dassin, Julien Dassin came to Moscow again, younger son singer. 
He wants to complete what his father did not have time to do. The Russian tour will begin in the heart of Russia, Siberia, where Dassin Sr. so wanted to get. Julien prepared the program "A toi" / "For you" together with the Academic Song and Dance Ensemble of the National Guard of the Russian Federation under the direction of Viktor Eliseev, concerts will be held in Europe and Russia in 2017.
Julien spent three days in Moscow - negotiations, interviews, shooting for the New Year's light, rehearsals with the Ensemble. Moscow in December ordeal for a European, but Julien managed everything, although for this he had to leave the car and go down to the subway. Despite a busy schedule, Julien gave exclusive interview for the community of Moscow bloggers moscultura
, thanks to the assistance of Ksenia Listova, Julien's official representative in Russia and the CIS countries.
The interview at the Marriott Aurora Hotel, where we met with Julien and Xenia, began with a question about the Moscow winter.
EAT: Julien, how do you like Moscow?
Julien Dassin: I really like how the city was decorated. It's Grandiose!!! Grandiose! This is not the case in France.
EAT: Does it look like Europe? Or is it already in Asia?
Julien Dassin: Everything here is HUGE! The city is huge, the roads are huge, the buildings are huge, the scenery, respectively. Our Champs Elysees- this is a small road for Moscow. I see small streets decorated like the Champs Elysees and so on every street.
EAT: Very nice! Julien, you will perform in Russia not for the first time?
Julien Dassin: Yes, the second... no, the third time.
EAT: Do you remember your first impression of Russia?
Julien becomes very serious.
- Oh, it was a very strange feeling! I have Russian roots, and so I got off the plane and put my foot on MY land, on the history of my origin. And what I felt - culture, nature, city, it was in the very heart, inside of me.
EAT: Have you been to Odessa (the birthplace of Julien's great-grandfather, Samuel Dassin)?
Julien Dassin A: Yes, but unfortunately very little. It was a short visit, I would like to return there, see this city, its houses.
EAT: Julien, your father died when you were very young. Tell me, did you have a cult of your father in your house - portraits on the walls, some articles, something like that?
Julien Dassin: Oh no!!! Both father and grandfather always separated work and home very strongly. Father's gold discs, records, all this for many years lay in huge boxes in the garage. And my brother feels the same about it (laughs) but I changed everything! I got everything, hung it on the walls, now I see it all every day.
EAT: You, probably, have been told all your life about the great father, that you look like him? Did you ever want to give it up, didn't protest, even as a teenager?
Julien Dassin: No never. This is my family, what created me, raised me.
EAT: I know that Joe Dassin was very fond of Courchevel. Do you do any winter sports?
Julien Dassin: Oh yes ... I even studied at such a school for a while - we had regular lessons for half the day, and the second half we rode skiing.
EAT: Wow, cool!
Julien Dassin: Well… to be honest, not really. Tired of school twice as much
EAT: And now you ride?
Julien Dassin: Yes, skiing, water skiing in summer.
EAT:(with enthusiasm) Do you want to ride during the tour of Siberia, in Shergesh?
Julien Dassin: Actually, I am contractually forbidden from doing extreme sports during the tour! (laughs) but if I break my arm, I have a second one!
EAT: Pets - cat or dog?
Julien Dassin: DOG! Jack Russell Terrier!
EAT: Does he jump high like in the movie The Mask?
Julien Dassin: Yes, yes (shows up and down with his hand), jumps like a ball! I recently moved out of Paris from Paris, I now have a garden, and now, in my opinion, he is much more pleased with this garden than I am.
EAT: Julien, you said about Paris and I immediately difficult question- Don't you think that everything that is happening now, in France, in Europe, in general in the world, is some kind of return to the Middle Ages, to dark times?
Julien Dassin: Well, times are changing and we have to change. I do not think that evil and violence will win. It's in everyone's heart... I'm a singer, I have to give people joy, good mood. Even if a person has grief or trouble, everything around is bad, but he will come to my concert and leave it with a smile, happy, which means I was able to do something.
EAT: Will you perform your own songs at the concert?
Julien Dassin: Not! Only father's songs and also songs by Piaf, Charles Aznavour, songs that come from the heart.
EAT: Russian people know them and love them very much! Julien, your father died in August 1980, and the great Russian singer Vladimir Vysotsky died a month before. For many Soviet people these two events combined, it was " black summer when two great men left. Do you know something about Vysotsky?
Julien Dassin: Yes, I know that name. All French people know that he was married to Marina Vlady.
EAT: Do you have relatives in America, maybe cousins?
Julien Dassin: Yes, but we hardly communicate. Yes, Christmas cards.
EAT: So your whole family is in France?
Julien Dassin: Yes, the whole family. Grandfather had to flee America during the McCarthy Act. He was blacklisted and was a well-known Hollywood director.
EAT: Were you close to your grandfather?
Julien Dassin: Certainly! He raised me, gave me everything. Everything family that the family has accumulated over generations.
EAT: Have you ever thought how the life of the family would have been if they had not left Russia?
Julien Dassin A: No, probably not. What's the point? Nothing can be changed... (thinks) Although I can say for sure that my father would not have become a singer. After all, he sang almost by accident (laughs) in America, he sang "French" songs, and when he returned to France, he said that he sang "American". You know, my great-grandfather was a hairdresser (probably, after all, a barber, according to French word“barbara”, which Julien says several times ) and someone told him that he should go to America, where the roads are built of gold! He went to America, but never found the golden road, and died as a barber too. And my great-grandmother was Russian, but we don’t know where, she played the violin. So maybe they should sing. Be sure to sing, but at home, for themselves.
Julien is not yet married. And he believes that he can meet his love in Russia, he says that he really likes Russian women. By the way, in 1979 in Moscow, Joe Dassin also met and fell in love with a Russian woman. Oh French... But at home there was a wife, a little son, and the romance was platonic. I asked Julien if he believed that true love can you meet after the concert, meeting with fans, or walking along the streets of Moscow? Instant response:
Julien Dassin: Yes, of course yes! Love can be found at any moment, and it will be real!
EAT: What should be the woman you love?
Julien Dassin: Just by itself, real, everything should come from the heart.
EAT: Will you be able to walk around Moscow?
Julien Dassin: Oh, I don't know…. Yesterday we managed to walk along the surrounding streets, but there is a lot to do. But I will still see Moscow, I'm a tourist. But a very busy tourist!
EAT: Julien, will we hear from you in Moscow? I would love to attend your concert.
Julien Dassin: I don’t know, now we are definitely deciding about Siberia and then we will move back from there.
EAT: We are looking forward to it!
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From myself I will say that I am very grateful to Ketevan ketosha
and Ksenia Listova for the opportunity to meet Julien Dassin. He's wonderful! :) Very cute, lively, the four of us laughed continuously, despite the fact that Julien does not understand Russian, and I do not speak French. Ksenia translated my questions into English, the English we have with Julien is about the same - believe! very bad, as we immediately found out at the beginning of the interview, and Julien was translated from English into French by his producer Thierry, and then everything in reverse order:) So the conversation was long and very lively, sometimes all four spoke three languages at the same time. I left the hotel absolutely enchanted. Joe Dassin was a great singer and so wonderful that his songs are alive and Russian audiences will be able to hear them live in the 21st century.
Click on the link to watch Julien's interview for TV channel "Zvezda"
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How would you define the place that your father occupied among the famous chansonniers? After all, he was neither a pure performer, like Yves Montand, nor a bard, like Jacques Brel.
- It seems to me that the father was, so to speak, folk singer. He passionately loved his work and people. He sang to help people live, - so he himself said.
- What kind of relationship did father have with his colleagues - Montand, Gainsbourg, Adamo?
I don't remember him having any particularly close relationship with them. His friends are, first of all, Carlos, Jeanne Munson, Henri Salvador (colleagues and close people of Joe Dassin, who often performed with him, starred in his videos. - "Labor-7"). Artists who exuded the joy of life.
- The French are often cruel to their own stars. They say that Mireille Mathieu was often received all over the world (and in Russia) much warmer than in France. Was this cruelty also manifested in relation to the father?
- It was not the French who were cruel to my father, but some part of the press, the so-called "intellectuals", who reproached my father for the fact that he often sang songs that were too frivolous for their taste.
- Is it happiness to be the son of a great artist?
- First of all, it is pride. It will never replace the possibility of live communication with the father, but it allows you to continue to live with him in your soul.
- Do you love him? Or is it some other feeling? Are you not annoyed that he spent so much energy on divorces and other personal conflicts?
How can you not love your father? I love him first of all as a person, and, of course, as an artist. I was only six months old when Joe left us, and I have no right to judge what he went through. I am not interested in what the press of that time wrote about him, I want to preserve in myself his image of a man in a white suit and with a radiant smile.
- Joe Dassin gave the impression of a prosperous person, but not quite self-confident inside. Did you inherit any of his traits?
- Like him, I'm pretty self-absorbed and shy. I think I inherited his heightened sense of duty and perfectionism. And like him, I love people, I love to sing for them.
- And what do you condemn in it?
- Of course, I do not blame, but it seems to me that he was too absorbed in his work. I gave him everything and, perhaps, passed by some moments of my own happiness.
- I read that he was buried according to Jewish laws - was he an orthodox Jew? Why was my father buried in Los Angeles?
- Joe was not so much religious as prone to the observance of traditions. He also wanted to educate us in these traditions, because he gave great importance the spirit of the family, kind. He is buried in Los Angeles, because his parents lived there at that moment and he once grew up in this city. Joe said, "I'm French at heart, but American by passport."
What relationship do you have with brother Jonathan? Are you strong friends?
We are very close, we see each other regularly. We are currently working on a new play that will be released in 2010 on the 30th anniversary of Joe's passing. This will be the only official performance with our participation, associated with the name of Dassin.
- What do you think of the Russian public?
- I can't explain why, but it seems to me that the Russian public especially responds to beautiful melodies and love songs. Perhaps the whole thing is in the cold climate from which she is so saved? I was in Russia at the age of three and have not retained my memories of that time. I am very happy that I was invited here again, and I hope to find new friends here ... I also look forward to visiting those places that dad especially loved.
- Does Joe Dassin have grandchildren?
- Not yet, unfortunately. Neither my brother nor I have found our other half yet. Maybe it will happen in Russia?
OUR DOSSIER
Joseph Ira Dassin (real name of the singer) was born on November 5, 1938 in New York in the family of a Jewish theater actor, future famous film director Jules Dassin, and violinist Beatrice Lohner. During the McCarthy "witch hunt" the family moved to Europe. Joseph achieved his first success in France in the 1960s with the song "Les Champs-Elysees". He sang about 300 songs in French, English, German, Spanish, Italian and Greek. He was married twice and divorced twice. The second wife, Christine Delvaux, gave birth to the singer's sons Jonathan (1978) and Julian (1980). Joe Dassin died on August 20, 1980 in Tahiti from a heart attack.