Pierre Vassiliu

Personal Info

Known For Sound

Gender Male

Birthday 1937-10-23

Deathday 2014-08-17 (76 years old)

Place of Birth Villecresnes, Val-de-Marne, France

Pierre Vassiliu

Biography

Pierre Vassiliu (23 October 1937 – 17 August 2014) was a French singer, songwriter and actor. His first record, "Armand", co-written with his brother Michel, appeared in 1962. It was an enormous success, selling 150,000 copies. This opened the doors of the Olympia in Paris to him, where he opened for the Beatles in 1964. He went on to a two-month stand with Françoise Hardy, Jacques Dutronc, and Johnny Hallyday. He had a string of hits, including "Charlotte", "Ivanhoe", and "La femme du sergent", censored because of the Algerian War. His 1973 song "Qui c'est celui-là?" was a cover of the 1972 song Partido Alto by Chico Buarque. It sold more than 300,000 copies and secured for him a place in the memories of the teenagers of the time. With his vocal trio, he resurrected the old French song "Belle qui tiens ma vie", sung a cappella. In 2002, he covered Boby Lapointe's "L'Été, où est-il?" with Thallia on the album Boby Tutti-Frutti – L'hommage délicieux à Boby Lapointe by Lilicub. In 2003, he made a CD with Senegalese griots of the Kalone Orchestra of Casamance. Vassiliu lived a part of his life in the Casamance, the region of Senegal lying to the south of the Gambia. He died in his sleep in 2014, after years of battling Parkinson's. Source: Article "Pierre Vassiliu" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For

Sound

1989
Périgord noir

as Original Music Composer

1970
Them

as Music

1968
Adélaïde

as Music

1968
1965
To Be a Crook

as Original Music Composer

Actor

2024
Gaumont, the Étrange Anthology

as Self (archive footage)

2014
1998
1989
Périgord noir

as Amédée

1987
1982
1975
Système 2

as Self

1975
1972
Midi trente

as Self

1971
Samedi soir

as Self

1959
Discorama

as Self