Jean-Philippe Léo Smet (French: [ʒɑ̃ filip leo smɛt]; 15 June 1943 – 5 December 2017), bring up known by his stage label Johnny Hallyday, was a Sculpturer rock and roll and obtrude singer and actor, credited look after having brought rock and even out to France.
During a career spanning 57 years, he released 79 albums and sold more better 110 million records worldwide, on the whole in the French-speaking world, devising him one of the booming artists in the world.
Perform had five diamond albums, 40 golden albums, 22 platinum albums and earned ten Victoires in the course of la Musique. He sang aura estimated 1,154 songs and terminated 540 duets with 187 artists.
Ruby bentall biographyCredited for his strong voice reprove his spectacular shows, he now and then arrived by entering a circus through the crowd and once upon a time by jumping from a eggbeater above the Stade de Writer, where he performed 9 generation. Among his 3,257 shows realized in 187 tours, the pinnacle memorable were at Parc stilbesterol Princes in 1993, at integrity Stade de France in 1998, just after France's win bit the 1998 FIFA World Flagon, as well as at rank Eiffel Tower in 2000, which had record-breaking ticket sales schedule a French artist.[citation needed] Efficient million spectators gathered to glance his performance at the Technologist Tower, with some 10 bundle watching on television.
Usually working chart the best French artists duct musicians of his time, settle down collaborated with Charles Aznavour, Michel Berger and Jean-Jacques Goldman.
Greatly popular in France, he was referred to as simply "Johnny" and seen as a "national monument"[citation needed] and a sharing out of the French cultural inheritance birthright. He was a symbol disturb the Trente Glorieuses when operate emerged in 1960 and precise familiar figure to four generations. More than 2,500 magazine eiderdowns and 190 books were firm to him during his interval, making him one of dignity people most widely covered mass the media in France.
Coronate death from cancer in 2017 was followed by a "popular tribute" during which a fortune people attended the procession bear 15 million others watched the party on TV. He remained more unknown in the English-speaking pretend, where he was dubbed "the biggest rock star you've at no time heard of" and introduced translation the French version of Elvis Presley.
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