Music: Singer Daniel Levy dies at 60

Singer Daniel Levy, known for his role as Moses in the musical Ten Commandments, He died Saturday of cancer at the age of 60, his wife announced.

“My husband, my King Daniel Haim ben Sara Levy, joined the con Eden”, wrote Sandrin Levy on the artist’s Instagram account, noting that the funeral of the singer, born in Constantine in 1961, will take place at the cemetery on Sunday. Jewish Saint-Pierre in Marseilles.

Benjamin, from a family of seven children, Daniel Levy spent his childhood in Lyon and studied piano for ten years. He started his career in the early 1980s with a debut album. CocktailDidn’t get the expected success.

After several prestigious collaborations, such as with Gloria Gaynor, who engaged him in the first part of his European tour, or Michel Legrand, who offered him to record songs from the film’s soundtrack. Car park (1985) by Jacques Demil, Daniel Levy made his concert debut in 1991.

He portrays the roles of Frédéric Chopin and Alfred de Musset in the show Sand and loveWritten by Catherine Laura and Luke Plamondon.

In 1993, he recorded This blue dreamCartoon song Aladdin From Disney. This duet with singer Karin Costa, whom the general public knows best, represents a generation.

In 2000, Daniel Levy knows that he was committed to the role of Moses in a musical comedy by Elie Souraki and Pascal Obispo. The Ten CommandmentsAnd its main song desire to love.

The musical was a hit at the Palais des Sports for several weeks and on tour. According to Universal Music France, the album sold 1.3 million copies.

“A man, a voice, a brother, our brother is gone […] That of children The Ten Commandments“Pascal Obispo reacted on social networks.

After stopping The Ten Commandments, Daniel Levy resumes his solo career and fuses his compositions with jazz, soul music and French genres. In total, he released six solo albums.

The singer was diagnosed with colon cancer, which he made public in 2019.

“Daniel Levy was a single, powerful voice. Even the fights: the climate, the carers, the fight against racism, support for Lebanon, he never hesitated to dedicate himself to making the world a little better. My deepest sympathies to his family and loved ones,” France’s Culture Minister Reema Abdel Malak responded on Twitter. .