Joe Dassin: 45 Years After His Death, His Son Jonathan Dassin Is His Perfect Likeness, He Assumes Our Resemblance

Joe Dassin remains one of the most loved artists of the French song, with cult titles such as: Indian Summer or The Champs-Élysées. But behind this success, his sudden disappearance in 1980 fed many theories. Forty-four years later, his son Jonathan made things clear and silenced rumours once and for all. A death full of shaded areas On August 20, 1980, while he is on vacation in Tahiti with his family, Joe Dassin died brutally at the age of 41.…

It bears a famous name and a musical heritage deeply rooted in collective memory. On Tuesday, May 20, Jonathan Dassin was the guest of the show Buzz TV to evoke his career as a singer. But also, the death of his father, Joe Dassin, and the weight — or wealth — of this family heritage. And, far from seeking to detach from it, the artist now fully assumes the vocal resemblances. As well as the musical traditions that have been uniting his father e…