American expatriate Joe Dassin was among France’s most widely used singers through the past due ’60s and ’70s, initially building his name with stylized adaptations of folk and country materials from his birthplace. As his profession blossomed, Dassin switched progressively to traditional-style chansons penned by a number of the genre’s …

The son from the renowned New York-born French chanson star Joe Dassin and photographer Christine Delvaux, singer and actor Julien Dassin found fame because of several projects celebrating his family’s legacy. Delivered in 1980, simply half a year before Joe passed away of a coronary attack in Tahiti, he was …

Celebrity Ellen Burstyn enjoyed her greatest prominence through the 1970s, ten years where she was a virtual fixture of Academy Honor voters’ ballots. Given birth to Edna Rae Gillooly in Detroit, MI, on Dec 7, 1932, as a teenager she studied dance and performed within an acrobatic troupe; she later …

Christened “the final Greek goddess” by her many devotees, Melina Mercouri was most widely known as an actress and cultural activist, but was also a talented singer who documented successfully in multiple languages. The granddaughter from the previous mayor of Athens, as well as the daughter of the Parliament member, …

Manos Hadjidakis (while his name is normally spelled in British) could very well be contemporary Greece’s greatest composer and songwriter, rivaled only by Mikis Theodorakis for the name. Hadjidakis helped usher in a fresh period of Greek music within the post-WWII period, elevating the earthiest strains of Greek folk and …

Film composer Eleni Karaindou was created within the Greek hill town of Teichio and raised in Athens, heading on to research piano and music theory in the Hellenikon Odion. Relocating to Paris in 1969, she analyzed ethnomusicology for five years before time for Greece to discovered the Lab for Traditional …