Julien Dassin. Julian Dassin: "Songs have replaced even my personal life for my father." And he quickly found like-minded people - the poets Pierre Dellanoe and Claude Lemesl, who began to compose poems for his melodies. In a short time, Dassin conquered a wide audience. His p

Dassin Julian Dassin Career: Musician
Birth: USA
November 5th would have been the 70th birthday of French singer Joe Dassin. But he suddenly died out in 1980, before he reached forty-two. Dassin was born in the same year as Vladimir Vysotsky and died less than a month after the death of the "Tagansky bard".

Valentin Gaft, in one of his poems, then exclaimed in his hearts: “And don’t let the radio tell us that Joe Dassin has died, and let him be silent that his own Vysotsky has died. What is Dassin to us ?! Annoyance was understandable in relation to the time that was then in the Soviet yard. But the charming lyricist of the French stage, frankly speaking, fell into Gaft's arm without fuss.

Dassin's intonation was consonant and understandable to our public (moreover, without knowledge of the language of Hugo and Dumas) no less than the style of Vladimir Semenovich. She was responsible for certain reservoirs of the soul. For something aching, bright and sometimes unrealizable. For example, Dassin's "Champs Elysees" sounded to fellow citizens the same saga about an unattainable dream, about a fairy-tale world, as later the famous "Nautilus" "Good Bye, America!" The demand for Dassin in Russia today is beyond doubt, and it is not surprising that we have not missed his date. On the eve of November 5, the Kultura TV channel showed the only of the last triumphal concerts of the singer in 1979 in the Paris Olympia, and on November 8, at the popular Legends of Retro FM festival in Olimpiysky, 28-year-old Joe's heir Julian will perform as a special guest Dassin. On the eve of his arrival in Moscow, he spoke with an Izvestia columnist.

question: Julian, I think you will not be surprised if a large number of questions addressed to you affect your famous father. Moreover, November marks the 70th anniversary of his birth. How was this date met in France?

Answer: We don't have a tradition of celebrating birthdays extensively. Rather, we are sensitive to death anniversaries. On such days, people remember the departed artists, their work, the times when they performed.

Q: Is Joe Dassin still popular in his homeland? Or is he still in the shadow of the names of the legendary French chansonniers - Brassens, Beko, Brel?

A: My dad, in my opinion, during his lifetime under no circumstances was as popular in France as he is at the moment, in the last five years. His songs are often heard on television, radio, they are abundantly used in various films and commercials. Many of our contemporary popular artists - Roque Voisin in particular - include compositions from the repertoire of Joe Dassin in their repertoire. And Mika ends her concerts with the hit "Les Champs-Elysees".

Q: Why did you and your brother Jonathan put on a musical about your father two years back in Canada and not in France?

A: We were contacted by a Canadian producer who was interested in this project. And we remember that our father really liked to tour in Canada and exactly in this country shake the premieres of his songs. So we gladly agreed to define the musical there. However, today he no longer goes on stage.

Q: Joe Dassin died when you were only six months old. How does he currently appear in your thoughts, and are you in contact with any of his friends and acquaintances?

A: My father is still prominently present in my life. I recreated his work office in my apartment - complete with his gold discs, his paintings and favorite photographs. When you enter this room, you get the feeling that dad is still there. I still often see Claude Lemel, his friend and author of many of his lyrics. But, unfortunately, many of my father's friends are no longer alive.

Q: As you grew older, did your mother, Christine Delvaux, try to ask about her father and why her relationship with Joe at the end of their lives so escalated and led to a stormy divorce?

A: My mother did not expand on this subject under any circumstances, and my brother and I have no desire to ask her such questions. Moreover, a lot about her relationship with her father has already been said in the press, and, in my opinion, the number of these testimonies and stories sins with exaggerations. It is difficult to judge any romantic story, if it does not concern you personally, if you have not experienced it from the inside.

Q: Do you think the producers pushed you to musical career, counting on an attractive PR move: did the offspring of Joe Dassin go the way of his father, or did they really see an outstanding performing potential in you?

A: I think having the surname Dassin at your disposal, if you want to get out on the stage, is more of a minus than a plus. Since you are doomed to be compared with the one who glorified this surname. Besides, I don't have a producer, I only have a manager. And, in the end, the audience always makes the verdict on the artist, no matter what his name is.

Q: In Russia, your dad is still very popular. Do you want to define a musical based on his songs in our country? A similar performance based on the songs of the ABVA group had a happy moment for us, and in general in Russia at the present time there is a craving for retro. You will quickly see for yourself, because you are going exactly to such a festival. By the way, what attracted you to "Legends of Retro FM"?

A: The performance about the father, the one we are currently preparing, will be presented to the Russian public in 2010. On Internet forums of fans of Joe Dassin as dogs of uncut registered users from Russia. My dad loved your country, and we really want the Russian public to see a play about him. The invitation to the "Retro FM" festival is another opportunity for me to promote my father's songs, to present them the way he would do if he were alive. I am proud that the organizers of such a major festival remembered him.

Q: You will perform in front of thousands of people at the Olimpiyskiy. Have you ever hummed in stadiums before?

A: This is the first time I will sing for such a large audience. This is an honor for me and, I confess, that at the current time I'm a little worried.

Q: What song will you perform as a "virtual duet" with Joe Dassin, and who is the author of this number?

A: I will sing "Et si tu n "existais pas" ("If it weren't for you") in a duet with my father and I will sing "Salut" solo. In France, I recorded the TV program "Impossible Duets". It was liked by the representatives of "Retro FM" , and thus the idea was born to build such a number in the "Olympic".

Joe Dassin was loved almost more in Russia than in France itself. The news of his untimely death in August 1980 shocked everyone. On November 5, 2008, he would have turned 70. And the other day, Joe Dassin's son, Julian, performed for the first time in Moscow at the Legends of Retro FM festival. The correspondent of "Labor-7" managed to talk with Dassin Jr.

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.

And Ksenia Listova, official representative Julien in Russia and CIS countries. Here I will say that it was VERY scary! :) But Julien is so beautiful that you want to communicate with him for a long, long time. It would be great to get to his concert, but nothing is clear with Moscow yet. Read!

Original taken from Dassin, son of Dassin

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.
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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 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 of that long 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 all 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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Joe Dassin. Sons of Joe Dasen.

Joseph Ira Dassin was born in New York on November 5, 1938. His father, Jules, a Russian by birth, was a supporting actor and tried to make a name for himself in the theater world. His mother, a violinist, originally from Hungary, supported her family with sin in half, playing in a women's orchestra.

The kid in the center is the future singer Joe Dassin; to his left is his father, Jules Dassin, and in the photo to the right is Joe Dassin with his mother, Beatrice Lohner

Gradually, the affairs of the Dassin family went smoothly: Joe's father was successful and became a famous director. Joe had two sisters, Ricky and Julie, whom he took great care of. The family lived in a beautiful home in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, this idyll did not last long. After leaving the United States for political reasons, the Dassins were forced to seek asylum abroad. Thus, while still a child, Joe traveled to many countries and changed about 14 schools.

Joe and Ricky with mother Beatrice

From the early childhood Joe is able to explain himself in several languages. The colleges just have time to list his name before he hits the road again. "I adored this wandering life, I saw many countries." The Dassins settled in Europe when Joe was seven years old.

Joe, Ricky and Julie with their aunt Molly Brown and her son Richard

When Joe was 12, the family moved to Paris. He discovers France and understands that he would like to stay here. Joe enjoys sports, especially skiing and swimming, and spends much less time studying. But since his father promised him a motorcycle, Joe catches up and manages to graduate from high school with a "good." in Grenoble and get a bachelor's degree. Joe was 17 years old.

His mother taught the boy music, and his father took him to Broadway productions. At first, the movie won. When, after the war, Jules Dassin returned to his homeland, to France, eleven-year-old Joe became his father's assistant.

Soon the parents divorced, but the son continued to have a close relationship with both his father and his mother. Joe remained a cheerful, lively and at the same time a modest, well-mannered guy.

Joe with sisters Ricky and Julie

At some point, Dassin decided to become an ethnographer and went across the ocean to the University of Michigan. While studying at the university, in order to provide for himself, he had to earn extra money. Joe's studies were easy.

As the son of a director, he is naturally attracted to cinema, but his father dissuades him: "Study first." Carefree by nature, Joe continues to live with a family that constantly moves from place to place.

Joe with sisters and parents. On the right is Karen's school friend.

The guy also had time to play the guitar. He also had his own audience. The young Frenchman made his debut in one of Detroit's nightly cabarets. His songs immediately attracted the attention of the public for their dissimilarity with well-known samples: he tried to combine the traditions of chanson with elements of American folk music, which seriously fascinated him. But his true birth professional singer happened all the same on French soil ...

After graduating from university, Joe is still not sure that his vocation is the stage. He returns to France and works at one of the radio stations. Then Dassin Jr. played two independent roles in the cinema, which, to tell the truth, did not bring him fame. It was after that that he thought about the fact that his future was not in the cinema, but on the stage - before that, the song for Joe was just entertainment. However, friends did not miss the opportunity to listen to him perform songs from the repertoire of French chansonniers, especially the famous Georges Brassens, his idol. Time passed, and Dassin still did not make the final choice.

“Chance, as usual, resolved everything,” writes L. Pishnograeva. At one of the parties, Joe met a pretty French woman named Maryse. It turned out that the girl really liked his singing - simple American country songs that he learned while living in America. Whenever Dassin sang, Maryse listened with admiration, and once she recorded his songs on a tape recorder. Joe - by nature soft and indecisive - just needed an energetic and lively girlfriend who could inspire him to exploits. Maryse brought the young musician together with the right people- employees of the CBS radio station. Dassin was persuaded to go on the air.

Success did not come immediately. The first record with American music aroused interest only among fans of Westerns. But when Dassin sang French chansons, the audience was delighted. Perhaps because in the music of those years, his songs stood apart. They had no politics or "social" sound. At the same time, they differed from one-day hits by expressiveness of the melody, impeccable taste and style. And one more thing: Dassin created joyful, bright music. He believed that the song should cheer up a person, help him live.

- I'm trying to entertain the audience, make them forget about their worries and sorrows, take them to beautiful world, where love reigns, I try to inspire hope for a meeting, - the singer admitted.

And he quickly found like-minded people - the poets Pierre Dellanoe and Claude Lemesl, who began to compose poems for his melodies. IN short term Dassin conquered a wide audience. His songs were whistled by street boys, they sounded at student parties, on radio, television and, of course, at concerts.

You know, I missed you so much ... ”Dassin sang, as if addressing each of those sitting in the hall. The natural, confidential manner of singing, the softness and sincerity of the voice captivated the listeners. The public saw him as a modern knight. Dassin's cheerful, mischievous, incendiary songs were also popular. He was in life the same as on stage - smiling, romantic, sometimes shy, sometimes unrestrained in his fun.

Maryse truly became a guardian angel for Dassin. She inspired Joe to beautiful songs about love, and helped him in everyday life.

“He wanted me to drive while he read,” she later recalled. And to take care of his health and hair. I had to style his hair several times a day (he hated his curls). I myself answered the correspondence, washed and ironed his snow-white concert suits...

On January 18, 1966, Joe and Maryse got married. Dassin's concerts are a huge success. Within a few years, he becomes the most popular singer in France.

The audience loves him, and he loves the audience, which, of course, feels it. It is enough to hear enthusiastic greetings in the concert halls to understand the love that the audience felt for Joe, his perfection was so complete.

Children and adults all want to see Joe Dassin perform. The jukeboxes in the cafes constantly order his songs, such as Siffler sur la colline, which can be called one of the most successful. A singer with a friendly, but a little sad smile, he was the ideal that everyone wants to be like, that everyone would like to meet.

In the next few years, Joe becomes a veteran of the Olympia, where his concerts every time make a splash. In view of such popularity, the Joe Dassin club is founded, where thousands of fans sign up. Even if not everyone likes his songs, everyone recognizes the obvious: the Joe Dassin phenomenon exists. And that's not too strong a word.

Joe and Christine

Joe Dassin was 38 years old - a fairly mature age. The main theme of his songs, with which he made such brilliant career was love. But he himself, it seems, has not yet found it. But then, one day...

In 1976 Joe Dassin was on tour in Rouen. In one of free days he went to the photo studio to give the film to be developed. A young lady served the customers. She looked after her father's shop during lunch break. Joe took notice of her and wasted no time in inviting her to lunch.

They liked each other, fell in love and decided not to part again. They are everywhere together. It seems that after a long search, the singer finally found his happiness by meeting Christine. When Joe is on stage, the girl is waiting for him backstage, when he is recording, she paces the corridors of the studio.

Family life, which began so well, later became the cause of sorrows for the singer and, most likely, death.

So Christina and Joe became lovers, and for several years Dassin led a double life. He broke up with Maryse in 1973 after the death of their first child, who lived only five days. “It was not success that separated us. Life just separated us, ”Dassin will say about the divorce.

The marriage took place on January 14, 1978 in Cotignac, a small town in the Var department in southern France. Joe Dassin performed here ten years ago. This concert was free and, in order to thank the singer, the festival committee offered him a plot of land for development. Over time, Joe built a magnificent Provencal-style house there. Therefore, he decided to arrange a wedding there.

The day before the wedding began heavy rain. Everyone hoped that by tomorrow it would stop. But these hopes were not destined to come true: the meeting of the lovers took place in the rain. However, this could be the title of another Joe song. Bad weather did not prevent the inhabitants of this charming village from attending the star's wedding.

Joe and Kristin appeared surrounded by friends who had come from Paris for the occasion. Among them are Serge Lama, Gene Munson, Carlos... Joe's witnesses were Pierre Lambroso, his manager, and Jacques, artistic director; from Christine's side - A. Atta and Isabelle Regamay, her childhood friend. Joe and Kristin put their signatures on the marriage certificate. Tears of happiness appeared in the eyes of the bride when Joe put on her finger wedding ring.

Before the big reception, to which about 500 people were invited, the newlyweds dined with their parents and relatives. Kristin, in the romantic dress that Joe had chosen for her with love, beamed with happiness. How long had she waited for this day!

Joe expected happy news: he was to become a father. At this time, he was 500 kilometers from home: on a tour of Canada. As usual, in the afternoon, the singer, along with his impresario, went to the golf course in Quebec. He used these watches to relieve tension before meeting the public.

That day, as soon as he returned to the hotel, the phone rang. He picked up the phone and heard his wife's voice: It's all right, Jonathan was born. The eighth letter J in the Dassin dynasty. Joe was happy and an hour before the concert he was still on the phone. In the evening of the next day, Joe, all his friends and musicians celebrated a joyful event with champagne.

For all Joe and Kristin are perfect couple. In a beautiful house in Sainte-Nome-la-Bretteche they lead a happy family life. They often have friends who share their happiness.

Then, at the end of 1978, like a cat ran between Joe and Christine. There seems to be a crack in their relationship. If earlier they liked to go out, visit dance floors, go to small cozy restaurants, now they appear less and less in public.

Dassin constantly toured, and Christine's frequent separations led to despair.

“Once, in search of solace, she tried drugs,” writes L. Pishnograeva. - Soon, Dassin began to use cocaine, and the couple were trapped. Retribution was not long in coming: Joe's health deteriorated sharply, Christine simply could not control herself. In this excited, hysterical woman, there was nothing left of Christine, whom Dassin fell in love with. Once their rare meetings were for him the greatest joy, but now he wanted to get a divorce as soon as possible.

However, it turned out that Christine was pregnant again. Joe thrashed about like a hunted animal. He believed that his unlucky wife was to blame for everything. She is unable to build normal relationships, run a house, raise children. God alone knows what bitterness and pain Dassin experienced ...

In March 1980, their second son was born, but their marriage was already doomed.

The very next day, Joe filed for divorce. And he began a grueling struggle for children. Dassin tried to convince the court that Christine could not be trusted with children. He managed to achieve a temporary solution in his favor, but God punished him for his arrogance and cruelty. Joe had a heart attack and was bedridden for a month.

Christine with sons Jonathan and Julien

As soon as the singer felt a little better, he took his sons, the youngest was only four months old, to Tahiti. He wanted to get them away from Christine as soon as possible and never see the woman himself again. Truly, from tender love to blind hatred is just one step!

Thus ended the love story of Joe and Kristin.

From love to hate...

Joe Dassin was undoubtedly one of the most popular singers, and his records were almost the most bought in France.

Giving concert after concert, he moved from country to country, he was given a standing ovation wherever he performed, he was admired by numerous fans and admirers.

To lead hectic life stars, it was necessary to have excellent health, or at least rest more often. Joe often worried about the heart, which indicated excessive stress.

Rest was necessary for him, and he went to the island of his dreams, to Tahiti, where he owned three kilometers of wonderful beach. The sand there was so fine, as if it had been passed through a sieve. Having reached the age of forty, Joe intended to leave the stage and settle there.

He did not want to become an aging chansonnier and therefore was going to stop in time.

In order to pay more attention to the growing sons Jonathan and Julien, he decided to give concerts less often before stopping them completely. My kids are growing fast and I don't want to miss anything, he often said.

Joe was literally obsessed with perfection and worked 12-15 hours a day. He felt his strength leave him day by day. All his dreams of eternal happiness were shattered. Divorce from Christine ruined his life.

After that, Joe takes a wise decision relax in Tahiti. He seemed happy talking about upcoming vacation, which he was going to spend with his children and with his mother - with those whom he loved more than anything in the world. There he could rest for a while, forgetting about the exhausting tour and divorce. He rejoiced at this unexpected respite.

He sought salvation on this paradise island but found death.

August 20, 1980, Tahiti. Joe is in great shape. He is going to go with friends to a distant atoll. No comfort, no hotel - real contact with nature…

- We agreed to meet at 10 am and discuss everything, - said Claude Lemel. - Joe prepared for this excursion as carefully as, for example, for a concert. We had to stay on the atoll for four or five days. At quarter past one we went to a restaurant, but someone told us that our friend, Dr. Paul-Robert Thomas, was in the cafe downstairs.

Joe with Claude Lemel.

We went to him, then again went upstairs. I took the escalator, but Joe didn't think it was fast enough and went up the stairs, jumping over four steps. In two jumps, he was at the top, and I thought he was in amazing shape. His mother, Beatrice, was with us. We chatted for a minute or two, suddenly Joe lost consciousness ... A doctor who happened to be in a restaurant gave him a heart massage, we called an ambulance, but she was on the other side of the island. By the time Joe was taken to the hospital, it was already too late...

- He loved Tahiti so much ... I'm sure he died happy ... - Beatrice said through tears.

Father at son's funeral

A year before his death, Dassin visited the USSR

In the summer of 1979, the artist performed at the opening of the Cosmos Hotel in Moscow. And already in August 1980 he was gone.

Who could have known that that last concert on July 11, 1980 would end the incredible career of the great singer? Vacation in Tahiti turned into a terrible tragedy. All dreams and plans were shattered on an August day in 1980, leaving nothing but emptiness to everyone who loved Joe...

Photo album

1. According to legend, when father Dassin, who did not know English well at the time of registration of immigrants, was asked about his surname, he did not understand the question and answered that he was from Odessa - this is how the surname “Dassin” appeared.

2. The Italian singer and composer Toto Cutugno was recognized by the world after Joe Dassin performed his compositions “Et si tu n`xistais pas” and “Salut”, as well as “L`t Indien”, which became a hit in the summer of 1975.

3. In his younger years, Joe Dassin worked as a cleaner, mechanic and cook. At one time he also wrote articles for Playbo magazine.

4. The song "Le Petit Pain Au Chocolat" ("Chocolate Bun"), performed by Dassin, contributed to an unprecedented increase in sales of chocolate dough buns.

5. During the speeches, Dassin gave all the best. For each concert, he lost several kilograms of weight.

6. Joe Dassin made corrections to the text of each of his songs. As a rule, they occupied a whole school notebook.

With Father

With mom.

7. Joe Dassin's favorite sport was golf, the artist also loved to fish. Dassin loved to cook, and often put on entire cooking shows for family and friends.

8. Dasen's masterpiece "Et Si Tu N" Existais Pas" (Russian version - "If it weren't for you") is dedicated to the second wife of the singer Christine Delvaux.

9. During one of the photo shoots, held in New York, Joe is photographed against the backdrop of a Harley-Davidson motorcycle accidentally turned up under the arm. This photo will then appear on the cover of the album, and the Harley Joe will become the object of desire for an entire generation.

Joe with wife Kristin and son Jonathan

With mom

Joe with sisters Julie and Ricky

Joe with his parents - Jules Dassin and Beatrice Lohner

Joe with first wife Maryse Massiera

His children became musicians.

Joe Dassin's sons Julien and Jonathan with their mother

Jonathan

The popular Kazakh singer Meruert Musrali and the son of the legendary chansonnier Joe Dassin, the French musician Jonathan Dassin, recorded a joint song and filmed a video clip in Almaty ( 2015)

Like his famous father, 35-year-old Jonathan Dassin writes words and music for his songs. His style is melodic compositions with elements of light folk and jazz.

Already at the age of 13 he created his first musical group, and over time, Jonathan's passion for music grew into a profession. As the singer, who already visited Kazakhstan at the beginning of this year, noted earlier, he is not an exact copy his father, because the famous singer has his own special and unique manner of performance, and Jonathan has his own.

Joe and Jannathan

He fundamentally does not want to promote his father's work and prefers to go his own way.

A show dedicated to the legendary French singer was held in Moscow

In the concert hall "Crocus City Hall" as part of a world tour called "Once upon a time there was Joe Dassin".

The effective conclusion of the concert was the joint performance of one of the compositions of the show by Joe Dassin with the help of multimedia technologies, together with his son Julien, who became not only a participant in the show, but also its ideological inspirer.

Julien Dassin and Florence Coast

Although Joe died when his son was only 6 months old, it turned out that he had a lot to tell about his famous father.

Singer and actor 30-year-old Julien Dassin is very similar to his father, the legendary French singer Joe Dassin. He smiles just as charmingly, gesticulates the same way, and even in conversation uses the words that Joe loved to pronounce so much ...

Julian Dassin onon Retro FM

From an interview with Jouyen

- He was a great perfectionist. He wanted to improve people's lives with his art. My father loved to read, talk and learn as much as possible. He was a very bright person.

- Does the name Dassin help or hinder in a career or in life?

- Not. The name Dassin does not bother me. I am proud of my last name. And by his father. Your last name is not only yourself, but also your ancestors. It is very important for me. I would like people not to forget my father and pass on their love for him from generation to generation.

The house where Julien Dassin lives is located in the most prestigious district of Paris. From the windows of his apartment on the sixth floor you can see the Arc de Triomphe and Champs Elysees, a song about which at one time made his father - the French singer Joe Dassin - famous throughout the world.

Julien says that he will drink coffee: “Probably already a hundred and tenth cup in the morning! This is our family. Like my father, I cannot live without coffee and, unfortunately, without cigarettes. This habit, to no small extent, undermined my father's health - he smoked like a steam locomotive. What he absolutely could not do. Father had serious problems with the heart: even in childhood, doctors discovered murmurs in his heart.

When father diedJulien was also at the table at that moment. More precisely, he was in the arms of his grandmother. Julien was then only six months old. And everything that he knows today about his father, he was told by people who knew Joe Dassin well. “I was looking for the image of my father for a very long time, collecting it literally bit by bit, and as a result, I folded it like a mosaic in my heart,” says Julien.

I can only say one thing: my father is always with me. As a child, I imagined what kind of lullabies he could sing to me, how he would smile when I first started hitting on girls, how he would worry about all my rebellious antics ... And to this day, no matter what I do, I constantly think : "What will your father say?"

In his Parisian apartment, he has his father's corner. In one of the rooms, he tried to recreate his office. The table is real, exactly the one that belonged to the father.

His own family I don't have one yet, I'm single.

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. Firstly, it's hard to get out of the shadow of a famous father or mother. Children can be evaluated for many years not on their merits, but in terms 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.

Awards

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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