Singer
Joe Dassin

Joseph Ira "Joe" Dassin (November 5, 1938 – August 20, 1980) was an American-born Jewish-French singer-songwriter. Dassin was born in New York City to American film director Jules Dassin (1911 - 2008) and Béatrice Launer (1913–1994), a New York-born violinist, who after graduating from a Hebrew High School in the Bronx studied with the British violinist Harold Berkely at the Juilliard School of Music. Both parents were Jewish. His father was of ... Russian- and Polish-Jewish extraction, his maternal grandfather was an Austrian Jewish immigrant, who arrived in New York with his family at age 11. He began his childhood first in New York City and Los Angeles. However, after his father fell victim to the Hollywood blacklist in 1950, he and his family moved from place to place across Europe. Dassin studied at the International School of Geneva and the Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland, and graduated in Grenoble. Dassin moved back to the United States where he earned a doctorate in ethnology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Moving to France, Dassin worked as a technician for his father and appeared as an actor in supporting roles in a number of movies directed by his father, including Topkapi where he played the role of "Josef". On December 26, 1964, Dassin signed up with CBS Records, making him the first French singer to sign up with an American record label. By the early 1970s, Dassin's songs were on the top of the charts in France and he had become very well known in that country. He was also a talented polyglot, recording songs in German, Spanish, Italian and Greek, as well as French and English. Dassin married Maryse (whose real first name is Yvette) Massiéra in Paris on January 18, 1966. Their son Joshua was born 2 1/2 months early on September 12, 1973 and died 5 days later. The devastated parents split, but did not divorce until 1977. On January 14, 1978, Dassin married Christine Delvaux Pavlopoulou and they moved to Athens, Greece on March 15, 1978. Their first son Jonathan was born on September 14, 1978, and their second son Julien arrived on March 22, 1980. Christine died in December 1995. Dassin died of a heart attack during a vacation to Tahiti on August 20, 1980. He is survived by his two sons, both living in France, as well as his two younger sisters, Richelle (b. 1940) and Julie (b. 1945). His body is interred in the Beth Olam Mausoleum section of Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California. See more [+]

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