Dani was not always at the party, even if her life really began on November 11, 1963. That day, barely arriving from her native Perpignan, she rushed to the Champs-Élysées which made her dream since her very young years.
In the Catalan country, she studied beautician and drawing to please her parents, but her ambitions are other: she wants to become a model.
With the freshness, even the unconsciousness of a beginner, she goes to the offices of
Jours de France
, Rond-Point des Champs-Élysées, and simply says “
I want to take pictures!
".
And it works !
Luc Fournol, the artistic director, hired him to present junior fashion.
She then joined an agency where her notoriety grew.
On the Flore terrace, she met Zouzou, the muse of 1960s fashion. Their friendship gave birth to a record that opened the door to songwriting for Dani.
She interprets one of them in a
24-hour report on the two
, proposed by Madelen.
She talks about her passion for motorcycling and speed born of her love for
La fureur de vivre
, her cult film, and rock.
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It is however on very different rhythms that she knows her first discographic successes.
A refrain from the 1930s,
When Charlie Played the Saxophone
, created by Georgius allowed him to enter the charts, and earned him criticism from opponents of de Gaulle, convinced that this refrain was a hymn to the glory of the general.
She does it again in the same genre with
Papa just married the maid
, recorded 40 years earlier by Georges Milton.
This is how she was spotted by Jean-Marie Rivière who included her in the review of the Alcazar de Paris, where she was to perform every evening for three years.
Verses titled
Life at 25
, earned her being selected to represent France at Eurovision.
A few days before the competition, Georges Pompidou disappeared and, as a sign of mourning, his participation was cancelled.
An intergenerational muse
No one imagined then that, three decades later, she would become the muse of a new generation thanks to
Like a boomerang
, a duet with Étienne Daho on verses written and composed by Serge Gainsbourg in 1975, which have remained unpublished.
She then continued in the same vein, barely two years ago, with
Golden Horizons
and was preparing to release a new album,
Attention, depart!.
In the meantime, she had fallen on hard times.
There were those years of "
artificial paradises
" that plunged him into hell, but also the time when, after having created a flower shop
In the name of the rose
, she trusted partners who, with her agreement, transformed this brand into a chain, but stripped her of all her rights.
She then found herself penniless.
Other activities have marked her career: in the 1970s and 1980s, she directed and hosted
L'Aventure
, a nightclub where the whole of Paris partied every night.
She also showed her acting skills, especially in two films directed by François Truffaut:
The American Night
and
Love on the Run
.
They met for the first time in a bakery where they bought chocolate rolls for the snack of their respective children who attended the same school.
One more boost to an extraordinary destiny