DAVID. At 77, singer Dave had to be hospitalized in intensive care after falling on his head at his Parisian home.
[Mis à jour le 24 mars 2022 à 17h16] “I thought he was dead.” A few weeks after his accident, Dave and his husband, Patrick Loiseau, came out of silence in the columns of Paris Match. On January 25, the singer had a “heavy fall” at his Parisian home, earning him hospitalization in the intensive care unit for several days.
An accident that her husband had not seen coming. “I still haven’t understood why, but Dave had the sudden need to make a machine, to wash jeans. (…) I heard a dull noise. At first, I thought it was was a plant that had fallen to the ground. I still went into the living room. He was there, lying on the ground, inert. I thought he was dead, “says the lyricist to the magazine.
And to add, on her fears for the survival of her husband: “At the start of the evening, when I contacted the intensive care unit, I was told coldly: ‘Your husband had two epileptic seizures during his transfer. fell into a coma, his condition is deteriorating, we don’t know yet if we will be able to save him.’ That’s when I warned Marco [Fogiel] and Daniel [Auteuil]his two best friends.” Dave, victim of a cranial trauma and a cerebral hemorrhage, remained “four or five days in a coma”, with an “uncertain vital prognosis”.
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.