DAVID. After suffering a “heavy fall on the head”, 77-year-old singer Dave is still in hospital.
[Mis à jour le 31 janvier 2022 à 11h30] After days of worry, the news is reassuring. Nearly a week after his hospitalization, Dave was “released from the intensive care unit on Friday”, announced his friend Marc-Olivier Fogiel to AFP this Sunday, January 30. The 77-year-old singer “continues his recovery in the hospital”, adds the same source, stressing that he wanted “to thank those who worried about him.”
Last week, Dave’s relatives announced, via AFP, that the interpreter of Vanina had been hospitalized “in the Paris region” on Tuesday January 25 after having “a heavy fall in his Parisian apartment”. According to The Parisian, the artist would have fallen “on the head”. “Dave is forced to cancel all his engagements for the next few weeks,” continued the press release sent to AFP by François Troller, his press officer.
Singer Dave was born Wouter Otto Levenbach on May 4, 1944 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Since the 1960s, the Dutchman has become one of the faces of French-speaking song, in particular thanks to his hits like Vanina Where On the Swann side. Passionate about music from adolescence, the young Dave learned guitar and piano and moved to Marseille. If he had originally hesitated between a career as a theologian or a jurist, he launched into song and released a first 45 lap before meeting the almighty Eddie Barclay in 1968.
His career was launched: in 1969, Dave represented the Netherlands at the Eurovision Song Contest. Five years later, he confirms his notoriety with the single Vanina, which exploded in popularity and remains, still today, a staple of his discography. The successes are linked for Dave, who connects the album releases. He then appeared on television, notably in France has an incredible talent.
Who has never hummed the eternal refrain of the chorus of Vanina ? The tube, released in May 1974, has gone through the ages. Originally, this song is in fact the French adaptation of the song Runaway by American rocker Del Shannon, released in 1961. But it was Dave who took it over and made it a hit in France, thanks in particular to the lyrics written by a certain Patrick Loiseau…
In the 1990s, singer Dave publicly revealed his bisexuality. In 1971, he met Patrick Loiseau. Born June 8, 1949 in Limoges, the latter is a French singer-songwriter, lyricist, painter and photographer. It is also to him that we owe the lyrics of Too beautiful, On the side of Swann or Vanina, several of Dave’s hits. Patrick Loiseau has also worked with other big names in French song, such as Hélène Ségara or Sylvie Vartan. In 2019, after several years of relationship, Patrick Loiseau and Dave get married in California and have since lived together in Paris.