MARCEL ZANINI. The musician and singer Marcel Zanini died at the age of 99, this Wednesday January 18, 2023, announces his family.
His bob, his mustache and his round glasses had marked an entire generation: Marcel Zanini died on Wednesday January 18 at the age of 99, his family revealed to AFP. The musician, face of French jazz, died in a Parisian hospital, his son, the writer Marc-Édouard Nabe (pseudonym of Alain Zannini) told the same source. Marcel Zanini will be remembered especially for his song Do you want it or notreleased in 1969, adapted from a hit by Brazilian artist Wilson Simonal, Nem vem que não tem.
Born September 7, 1923 in Istanbul, from a Franco-Italian father and a Greek mother, Marcel Zanini participated in the explosion of jazz in France, playing the clarinet and the saxophone. During his career, the artist tried his hand at the cinema, but remained attached to the stage, where he continued to perform until the end of the 2010s. Marcel Zanini had also released an album, aptly baptized Do you want it or notin 2009 and performed that year at the Petit Journal St-Michel in Paris.