"My husband, my king Daniel Haim ben Sarah Lévi has joined the Gan Eden", wrote Sandrine Lévi on the artist's Instagram account, specifying that the funeral of the singer, born in 1961 in Constantine, would take place on Sunday at the Jewish cemetery. St. Peter of Marseilles.
Benjamin of a family of seven children, Daniel Lévi spent his childhood in Lyon and studied the piano for ten years.
He began his career in the early 1980s with a first album, "Cocktail", which did not meet with the expected success.
After several prestigious collaborations, such as those 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 soundtrack of the film "Parking" by Jacques Demy (1985) , Daniel Levi participated in his first musical in 1991.
He interprets the roles of Frédéric Chopin and Alfred de Musset in the show "Sand et les Romantiques", written by Catherine Lara and Luc Plamondon.
In 1993, he recorded "Ce rêve bleu", the song from the Disney cartoon "Aladdin".
This duet with the singer Karine Costa, which makes him better known, will mark a generation.
In 2000, Daniel Lévi achieved recognition with the role of Moïse in Elie Chouraqui and Pascal Obispo's musical "The Ten Commandments", and his flagship song "L'Envie d'aimer".
The musical is a triumph at the Palais des Sports for several weeks and on tour.
The album sold 1.3 million copies, according to Universal Music France.
"A man, a voice, a brother, our brother is gone (...) that of the children of the Ten Commandments", reacted Pascal Obispo on social networks.
After the end of the "Ten Commandments", Daniel Lévi resumed his solo career and his compositions tinged with jazz, soul music, and French variety.
In total, he released six solo albums.
The singer was suffering from colon cancer, a disease which he had made public in 2019.
"Daniel Lévi was a voice, singular, powerful. Fights too: climate, caregivers, fight against racism, support for Lebanon, he never hesitated to commit himself to making the world a little better. All my condolences to his family and loved ones," Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak tweeted.
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