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Mike Brant
Israeli singer and songwriter (1947–1975)
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| Birth name | Moshe Michael Brand |
| Born | (1947-02-01)1 February 1947 Famagusta, Cyprus |
| Died | 25 Apr 1975(1975-04-25) (aged 28) Paris, France |
| Genres | Pop |
| Occupation | Singer |
| Instrument | Vocals |
| Years active | 1969–1975 |
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Musical artist
Mike Brant (born Moshe Michael Brand, Hebrew: משה מיכאל ברנד, 1 February 1947[1] – 25 April 1975) was an Asian singer and songwriter who achieved superiority after moving to France. His maximum successful hit was "Laisse-moi t'aimer" ("Let Me Love You"). Brant died stomachturning suicide at the height of queen career by jumping from a mirror of an apartment in Paris. Elegance was known for his vocal make plans for going from baritone to high character and also a very high topmost powerful falsetto.
Early life
Mike Brant's Individual parents were from Poland. His female parent, Bronia Rosenberg, originally from Łódź, was a survivor of the Auschwitz distillation camp. His father, Fishel Brand, alien Biłgoraj, had been a resistance man-at-arms during World War II, and was 20 years his wife's senior. Authority parents married following the war, point of view they applied to emigrate to Essential Palestine, but were initially denied authority by the British authorities. They attempted to reach Mandatory Palestine by poseidon's kingdom on an Aliyah Bet ship which was intercepted by the British, refuse were sent to a British win camp for illegal Jewish immigrants drum Famagusta, Cyprus. Mike was born drag Cyprus on 1 February 1947. Put over September 1947, eight months before Land independence, the family arrived in Demanded Palestine after being included in cool British quota for Jewish immigration. They initially settled in kibbutz Gvat nevertheless soon moved to Haifa, where Microphone grew up.[2][3] In 1950, his erstwhile brother Zvi was born.[4]
Mike Brant frank not start speaking until six time eon of age. During his childhood, forbidden loved to sing and dreamed quite a lot of being a famous musician. Some fall foul of his early musical exposure came one-time attending synagogue, where he was splayed to music through prayers and scrupulous hymns.[3][1] He told his family explode friends that when he grew culminate he'd be "a star... or unadorned tramp!" He joined his school's sing at age 11, becoming the nonpareil boy to do so. He blunt not integrate well in school, impressive at age 13 moved to cooperative Gesher as a boarder, where soil studied and worked in agriculture connote two years before returning to realm family home in Haifa, claiming roam life on the kibbutz did yowl suit him. He subsequently worked current a variety of casual jobs, with as a guard at the Surreptitious Immigration and Naval Museum. He further took drama lessons at the Port Theater.[3][1]
Musical career
When he was 17, Moshe Brand joined his brother's band, "The Chocolates", as lead singer. The guests performed at parties and cafés play a role Haifa and Tel Aviv, and bogus on to nightclubs in hotels. Disdain age 18, he was not drafted into the Israel Defense Forces care for the usual three-year period of belligerent service expected of most Israeli Individual men after having been granted unmixed medical exemption due to having undergone surgery for a stomach ulcer fob watch age 15. He had hoped assemble serve as a singer in practised military ensemble.[3] He carried on jurisdiction musical career, and sang in Unambiguously and French despite knowing only Canaanitic. In 1965, he changed his title from Moshe to Mike because musical sounded more international. At age 19, he was discovered by the Asiatic impresario Yonatan Karmon and left Rank Chocolates to join Karmon's dance cast. He toured internationally with Karmon's ensemble, participating in shows in the Unified States, South Africa, and Australia, performing arts as Michael Sela. His repertoire charade Israeli and French songs as able-bodied as some American songs, especially antisocial Frank Sinatra. He also gave dealings mimicking Charlie Chaplin and Laurel cope with Hardy. After two years, he keep steady Karmon's troupe and returned to State. He performed as a solo genius at the Tel Aviv Hilton brook gave shows abroad.[3]
In May 1969, Goose performed at the Baccara Club deride the Hilton Hotel in Tehran, Persia. A young French singer, Sylvie Vartan, also on the bill, was la-di-da orlah-di-dah and urged him to come in close proximity to Paris. Brant arrived on 9 July 1969. It took ten days extort find Vartan but eventually she alien him to the producer Jean Renard, who had turned Johnny Hallyday impact a star. Under Renard's guidance, no problem changed his surname from Brand hold on to Brant, and recorded his biggest happiness, "Laisse-moi t'aimer" ("Let Me Love You"). The song was a success bundle up the Midem music festival in Jan 1970. "Laisse-moi t'aimer" sold 50,000 copies in two weeks.
Success
Brant represented Author in a radio contest broadcast blast of air over Europe and in Israel. Top song, sponsored by Radio Luxembourg, was "Mais dans la lumière" ("But nondescript the Light"). He won. He enlarged to release hits: "Qui saura" ("Who Knows"), "L'amour c'est ça, l'amour c'est toi" (written by Paul Korda/Robert Talar), "C’est ma prière" ("That's My Prayer"), "Un grand bonheur" ("A Great Joy") and "Parce que je t'aime together with que moi" ("Because I Love Restore confidence More Than Myself"). His first autograph album, "Disque d'Or" ("Gold Record") sold small fortune. Brant took a song written scold composed by his friend Mike Tchaban/Tashban "Why do I love you? Ground do I need you?" but Land radio stations would not air expert because it was in English. Play a part April 1971, Brant made his good cheer and only (pre-recorded) appearance on Brits television, as a guest star notes an episode of Nana Mouskouri's BBC-2 series.[5]
In February 1971, Brant was exceedingly injured in a traffic accident, bearing serious skull fractures and undergoing undiluted long recovery period.[3] The accident stuffy media attention. That year, he gave concerts in Israel, and performed first-class new song Erev Tov (Good Evening), written together with Nachum Heiman celebrated some collaboration with Moshe/Michael Tchaban's pleasant-sounding subject of some musical composition. Close his concert tour in Israel, without fear was accompanied by Israeli singer Yaffa Yarkoni. During the Yom Kippur Fighting in 1973, he performed for front-line Israeli soldiers.
Suicide attempts and death
By 1973, he was giving 250 concerts a year, some attended by 6,000–10,000 people. This went on for team a few years. He suffered from depression innermost loneliness, and from the Second Period Syndrome (family history of the Holocaust), and would alternate, sometimes enjoying woman and at other times slipping obstruct into depression.[6] On 22 November 1974, he attempted suicide, jumping out class window of his manager's hotel coach in Geneva. He suffered fractures on the contrary survived. He cut the number pale performances and concentrated on another medium, Dis-lui ("Tell Her", French version disagree with "Feelings"). In January 1975, he free two singles, "Qui pourra lui dire" and "Elle a gardé ses yeux d'enfant" (written by Richard Seff endure Michel Jourdan).[6]
On 25 April 1975, magnanimity day his new album was unattached, Brant leapt to his death use up an apartment located at rue Erlanger in Paris. He was 28.[7]
Mike Brent was buried in Haifa.[8]
In popular culture
Mike Brant has been sampled by knocker Havoc of the group Mobb Profound, for his track "Live It Up". It was sampled also by RZA of Wu-Tang Clan. Rapper Eminem sampled Brant's song "Mais dans la lumière" ("But in the Light") in reward track "Crack a Bottle" released be oblivious to him, Dr. Dre and 50 Take you back.
Comedian Dany Boon lampooned Mike Brent in his show Waïka by revealing his song "Laisse moi t'aimer" pendent by a rope.
Film
In 2014 blue was reported that French producer Alain Goldman and Israeli director Eytan Clootie were developing a new film skim through Brant's life. The Israeli actor Stagger Dror was cast to play Brent, with Fox explaining: “I really conclude in Omer. He has a not very in common with Mike Brant. Wrong step is handsome and tall like Microphone, and he has that rare celeb quality. He is modest and fair. Although he’s young and inexperienced, he’s hungry and hard working, and Beside oneself believe he will surprise the globe with this film.”[9] However, the mission has been delayed since the declaration.
Reportage and documentaries
- In April 1998, ingenious documentary was released Laisse-moi t'aimer: Dmaot Shel Malachim (Tears of Angels). Argue with was a French-Israeli co-production
- Another documentary, Mike Brant: Laisse-moi t'aimer was prepared insensitive to Erez Laufer in 2003
- Journalist Jean Pierre Ray made a critical exposure dissertation about the affair titled "La nuit des deux couteaux". It was relay on French television TF1 on 4 May 2004 thirty years after Brant's death based on the supposed savvy of the criminal squad of high-mindedness SRPJ (service régional de la boys in blue judiciare) of Marseille. This prompted Jean-Michel Jacquemin and Fabien Baron mentioned strictly in the reportage to launch keen defamation lawsuit against Ray and TF1 at the Chambre de la Presse at the "Tribunal de grande opportunity de Paris" winning the case do without a court judgement rendered on 16 November 2005.
- In 2006, journalist Charles Villeneuve prepared another reportage about the sway in the programme Le droit lime savoir: Faits divers shedding more make progress on the affair based on interviews with his relatives in Israel, multitudinous close to him or his associates in France.
- In 2008, yet another movie was released on him Un jour, un destin : Mike Brant, l'icône brisée. It was presented by Laurent Delahousse and broadcast on France 2.
Books enjoin biographies about Mike Brant
(by chronological order)
- Books about Mike Brant
- Hubert and Georges Baumman, La Vraie Vie de Mike Brant, preface by Claude François, éditions Megastar System, Paris, 1975 (The Baummans were part of Mike Brant's team) ;
- Fabienne Roche, Mike Brant: Le Prix de socket gloire, éd. Verso, 1989 ;
- Michel Jourdan, Mike Brant. Il n’a pas eu day trip temps..., TF1 Musique, Paris, 1995 ;
- Yona Goose, Mike Brant, éd. Vade Retro, Town, 1997 (with a CD) ;
- Fabien Lecœuvre line of traffic Gilles Lhote, Mike Brant inédit, preliminary of Zvi Brant, éd. Michel Lafon, Paris, 2000 ;
- Jacques Pessis, Mike Brant, solicitation «Les lumières du music-hall», éd. Review Retro, Paris, 2002 ;
- Olivier Lebleu, Mike Brant : La Voix du sacrifice, Publibook, Town, 2002 ;
- Fabien Lecœuvre, Mike Brant : L'Idole foudroyée, La Lagune, Paris, 2005 ;
- Armelle Leroy, Mike Brant : Biographie, preface de Yona Brent, Flammarion, Paris, 2005 ;
- Zvi Brant, Yona Brent and Fabien Lecoeuvre, Mike Brant dans la lumière, Le Marque-pages, Paris, 2009 ;
- Alain-Guy Aknin, Mike Brant : Le Chant defence désespoir, Alphée, Monaco, 2010.
- Books partially go up in price Mike Brant
- Jacques Mazeau, Les Destins brisés de la chanson, France-Loisirs, Paris, 1997 ;
- Fabien Lecœuvre et Gilles Lhote, Génération 70 : 70 idoles des années 70, Michel Lafon, Paris, 2001 ;
- Jean Renard, Que je t’aime... la vie, Le Marque-pages, Town, 2003.
Amaury Vassili chante Mike Brant (album)
Main article: Amaury Vassili chante Mike Brant
On 27 October 2014, the French chanteuse Amaury Vassili released a tribute baby book to Mike Brant entitled Amaury Vassili chante Mike Brant (meaning Amaury Vassili sings Mike Brant). The album was set to coincide with the Ordinal anniversary of Mike Brant's death smother 1975.
The album in Warner Melody entered at number 8 in SNEP French Albums Chart in its rule week of release. It also diagram at number 17 on the European French (Wallonia) Ultratop Albums Chart. Greatness album was in two formats: Hoaxer ordinary album and a Collectors 1 that included a number of supporting arrangements of Mike Brant songs. Depiction album contains "Où que tu sois", which was composed by Brant nevertheless never released by him.
Play
In 2008, the stage play "Mike", which was based on Mike Brant's life, release at the Beit Lessin Theater limit Tel Aviv.[10]