He is an authentic figure of the Parisian music hall who has just left us.
Jean-Michel Boris, the linchpin of the Olympia and the right arm of Bruno Coquatrix (1910-1979), has just died at the age of 87.
The news was first announced by his relatives on social networks and then confirmed with AFP.
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The comedian Smaïn greeted on Twitter "
a remarkable man
".
"
I owe him my first Olympia, I owe him this part of the dream that he so kindly offered me," continues the artist.
Thank you Jean-Michel, after this red curtain here is this long red carpet which will lead you towards Heaven from now on
”.
"
This gentleman was a lord,
" comedian François Morel also wrote on social networks.
The Olympia also reacted on Twitter: “
With the disappearance of Jean-Michel Boris, we are losing one of our fathers and the world of culture, one of its benefactors.
His name will forever be associated with the history of Olympia and forever in our hearts.
He who embodied the hall for half a century.
"
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Joined the Olympia in 1954, Jean-Michel Boris rose through the ranks of responsibility in what was for two decades one of the most prestigious concert halls in the world.
Machinist, projectionist, sound engineer then manager, the nephew (he was Paulette Coquatrix's brother) of the high priest of the place rubbed shoulders with all the professions of the music hall before becoming co-director of the Olympia alongside his mentor in 1970. And it is he, of course, who will succeed him on his death in 1979.
French success
Jean-Michel Possicelsky was born on February 14, 1933 in Bordeaux.
After being seduced at first by the profession of doctor, Jean-Michel Boris responds to his artistic vocation - his father was a film distributor - by agreeing to work at the Olympia, in 1954, at Bruno's request. Coquatrix.
First a machinist, a real linchpin of musical performances, it will take ten years for him to finally receive the holy grail, that is to say the envied position of artistic director of the Olympia.
Authentic example of French success, Jean-Michel Boris will be made an officer of the Legion of Honor in 2001. Universal who remembered that this man had known how to detect, with Bruno Coquatrix, talents as exceptional as Gilbert Bécaud, Jacques Brel, Johnny Hallyday and Georges Brassens, had given him a post of artistic advisor.
Today, he is one of the best connoisseurs of French song who is disappearing.
When Jean-Michel Boris evoked the very young ... Johnny Hallyday