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Use dmy dates|date=May 2011Expand French|Johnny Hallyday|date=December 2009Infobox musical artist | name = Johnny Hallyday| image = Johnny hallyday (2003).jpg| caption = Johnny Hallyday in 2003| image_size =| background = solo_singer| birth_name = Jean-Philippe Smet| alias =| birth_date = Birth date and age|1943|6|15|df=yes| death_date =| origin = Cité Malesherbes, Paris, France| instrument =| genre = Rock and roll | occupation = Singer, actor| years_active = 1959-Present| label = Vogue Philips
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Universal | associated_acts = | website = http://www.johnnyhallyday.com/ Jean-Philippe Smet better known by his stage name Johnny Hallyday (born 15 June 1943, Cité Malesherbes, Paris, France) is a Frenchcite news|url= http://www.lemonde.fr/cgi-bin/ACHATS/acheter.cgi? offre=ARCHIVES& type_item=ART_ARCH_30J& objet_id=1010056|title=Johnny Hallyday renonce à la nationalité belge|work=Le Monde|language=French|date=22 October 2007|accessdate=17 October 2009 singer and actor.Hallyday – place/date birth http://www.johnnyweb.fr/ Official site An icon in the French-speaking world since the beginning of his career, he was considered by somecite news|url= http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1235348/Rock-legend-Johnny-Hallyday-coma-surgery.html|location=London|work=Daily Mail|title=Rock legend Johnny Hallyday in coma after surgery|date=13 December 2009 to have been the French Elvis Presley . He was married for 15 years to popular Bulgarian-French singer Sylvie Vartan . They formed the golden couple of the sixties and seventies in Europe. Johnny has completed 100 tours, had 18 platinum album s, and sold more than 110& nbsp;million records. Hallyday announced his retirement from performing on 3 December 2007, saying that he will retire in 2009,cite news|url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7124909.stm |title=Singer Hallyday to quit touring |work=BBC News |date=3 December 2007 |accessdate=17 October 2009 after a farewell tour. Hallyday, though, announced in March 2012 that he would perform in Los Angeles on April 24 and in New York City on October 7.
Early life
Expand section|date=January 2011Hallyday's father, Léon Smet (1908–1989), was Belgians|Belgian , his mother Huguette Clerc (1920–2007) was French. Hallyday took his stage name from his aunt Desta's husband and dance partner Lee Hallyday, a pseudonym for Lee Ketcham, an expatriate Oklahoman, performer and MC at the Cafe de Paris when Johnny began his singing career. Johnny was raised by Desta and Lee from a very young age, with Lee being his first manager.
Career
Influenced by Elvis Presley and the 1950s rock revolution, Hallyday became famous in the 1960s for singing rock and roll in French. His debut single, "Laisse les filles" was released on the Vogue Records|Vogue label in March 1960.cite book | first= John | last= Tobler | year= 1992 | title= NME Rock 'N' Roll Years | edition= 1st | publisher=Reed International Books Ltd | location= London | page= 80 | id= CN 5585 | isbn= 0-600-57602-7 His first album, Hello Johnny , was released in 1960. http://www.rfimusique.com/siteen/biographie/biographie_6309.asp Hallyday – influenced by Elvis Presley In 1961 his cover version|cover of " Let's Twist Again " sold over one million copies, and was awarded a music recording sales certification|gold disc .cite book | first= Joseph | last= Murrells | year= 1978 | title= The Book of Golden Discs | edition= 2nd | publisher=Barrie and Jenkins Ltd | location= London | page= 136 | isbn= 0-214-20512-6 It topped almost every European chart, although the track did not appear in the UK Singles Chart .cite book | first= John | last= Tobler | year= 1992 | title= NME Rock 'N' Roll Years | edition= 1st | publisher=Reed International Books Ltd | location= London | page= 101 | id= CN 5585 | isbn= 0-600-57602-7 He appeared on the American Ed Sullivan Show with American singing star Connie Francis in a show that was taped at the Moulin Rouge nightclub in Paris. He also staged many appearances in the Paris Olympia under the management of the late Bruno Coquatrix . For their first concert, The Jimi Hendrix Experience opened for Johnny Hallyday in Évreux on 13 October 1966. Black and white footage, also from October 1966, exists of Hallyday partying with Hendrix, his manager Chas Chandler and others.
At the end of the 1960s, Hallyday made a string of albums with Mick Jones (Foreigner)|Mick Jones and Tommy Brown as musical directors, and Big Jim Sullivan , Bobby Graham and Jimmy Page as session musicians. These are Jeune Homme , Rivière... Ouvre ton Lit (aka Je suis né dans la rue ) and Vie . On Je suis né dans la rue , Hallyday also hired both Peter Frampton and the Small Faces . Amongst their contributions are the songs "Amen (Bang Bang)", "Reclamation (News Report)" and "Regarde Pour Moi (What You Will)" which are variations of Small Faces and Humble Pie (band)|Humble Pie – which was Frampton's band – tracks and they can be heard playing on the album. Often forgotten is Hallyday's non-LP single and EP track "Que Je T'aime" from the same sessions.Frampton and Small Faces contribution on 1969 album. Steve Marriott - All Too Beautiful... (Paulo/Hellier) ISBN 1-900924-44-7 p.324 By 1969 alone, his sales of gramophone record|records exceeded twelve million.
Many Who|date=December 2009 consider Hallyday to have developed well and become a greater performer in his later years. One of his concerts, 100% Johnny: Live à La Tour Eiffel in 2000, attracted an audience of 500,000 and 9.5& nbsp;million television viewers (the show was broadcast live on French TV). http://www.johnnyweb.fr/ Official site In December 2005, Hallyday had his third number-one single in France, " Mon Plus Beau Noël " (after " Tous ensemble " and " Marie (song)|Marie "), dedicated to his adopted daughter Jade. Shortly before announcing his retirement from touring, he released a blues-flavored album, '' Le Cœur d'un homme , on 12 November 2007. The album hit #1 in both France and French-speaking Belgium. In addition to the lead single "Always", Le Cœur d'un homme'' features "T'aimer si mal", a duet with bluesman Taj Mahal (musician)|Taj Mahal and "I Am the Blues", an English-language song written for Hallyday by U2 frontman Bono . His next album, Ça ne finira jamais , released in 2008, another #1 on the French album chart, and its lead single, " Ça n'finira jamais ", also reached #1. In 2008 he recorded a series of acoustic songs with French musician Drexl Jonez . Hallyday's most recent album, also a #1 hit in France, is Tour 66: Stade de France 2009 , a live set recorded at Stade de France during his farewell tour with appearances by Drexl Jonez on the guitar.
Hallyday remains largely unknown outside of France, thus earning the nickname "the biggest rock star you've never heard of" in English-speaking countries.cite web |url= http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/belgium/1507887/Go-go-Johnny-go-but-to-Belgium.html |title=Go, go Johnny go - but to Belgium? |first1=Kim |last1=Willsher |first2=Justin |last2=Stares |date=2006-01-15 |work= The Daily Telegraph |publisher= |accessdate=2012-05-03cite web |url= http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/henrysamuel/9763659/End_of_the_road_for_Frances_Elvis/ |title=End of the road for France's Elvis |first=Henry |last=Samuel |date=2009-05-11 |work= The Daily Telegraph |publisher= |accessdate=2012-05-03cite news|url= http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/le-fin-for-the-original-french-pop-idol-1684593.html|title=Le fin for the original French pop idol |work=The Independent |date=14 May 2009 |accessdate=17 October 2009 | location=London He was made Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion d'honneur in 1997. Cite journal|journal= Journal Officiel de la République Française|JORF |volume=1997 |issue=1 |title=ORDRE DE LA LEGION D'HONNEUR Décret du 31 décembre 1996 portant promotion et |date=1 January-1997 |page=29 |id=PREX9612816D |url= http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/WAspad/UnTexteDeJorf? numjo=PREX9612816D |accessdate=5 April 2009
French movie producers Michèle and Laurent Pétin introduced Johnny Hallyday to Hong Kong film director Johnny To . Hallyday was cast as the main role of To's Vengeance (2009 film)| Vengeance after meeting with the director in early 2008. The shooting began in November 2008 and concluded in February 2009. The filming took place on location in Hong Kong and Macau, with a crew mainly based in Hong Kong. Citation needed|date=December 2011
Personal life
In November 2005, Hallyday started a procedure to obtain Belgian citizenship but his request was turned down in 2006 because he failed to fulfill the residence requirements. In late 2006, Hallyday announced that he would move his permanent residency to Gstaad , Switzerland to escape the high tax rate imposed by the French government. Swiss law allows wealthy individuals to claim residency if they live six months and one day in the country and then pay a fixed tax based on expenses, such as rent or assets in Switzerland, rather than a percentage of their income. Hallyday has said that he would move his residency back to France if it changes its tax laws. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6190133.stm BBC report on Hallyday's tax troubles
He maintains a second home in Los Angeles, where he has been spending increasing amounts of time in recent years, enjoying his relative anonymity in the U.S. One of his favorite leisure activities is riding his Harley-Davidson on long trips through the California desert, staying in small motels along the way.
Hallyday married Bulgarian-French singer Sylvie Vartan on 12 April 1965. Their son David Hallyday|David was born on 14 August 1966. Hallyday and Vartan divorced in 1980. He was then briefly married to Babeth Étienne ; the marriage lasted less than three months, ending in February 1982. A four-year relationship with French actress Nathalie Baye followed; their daughter Laura Smet was born on 15 November 1983. He was married to his third wife Adeline Blondieau for two years, divorcing her in 1992. He has been married to Laeticia Boudou since 25 March 1996. The couple have adopted two girls from Vietnam : Jade Odette Désirée, born 3 August 2004 (formerly Bui Thi Hoa), in November 2004,cite web|url= http://www.nndb.com/people/120/000111784/ |title=Johnny Hallyday |publisher=Nndb.com |date= |accessdate=2012-03-26 and Joy (Maï-Huong), born 27 July 2008, in December 2008. From all those relationships, the one with SYLVIE VARTAN is the most popular and symbolic for the french audience. Not one article is written without mentioning Sylvie Vartan who remains the number one french female selling artist of all time and the queen of rock and pop in Europe.
Hallyday supported Nicolas Sarkozy in the 2007 French presidential election . The Masked Avengers referenced this in The Masked Avengers' prank on Sarah Palin|their prank call to American vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin when an Avenger impersonating Sarkozy named Hallyday as his "Special American Advisor".
In July 2009, Hallyday was diagnosed with colon cancer , http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/16/johnny-hallyday-concerts-cancelled Johnny Hallyday tour cancelled because of health problems for which he was operated on. On 26 November 2009 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/6782637/French-rocker-Johnny-Hallyday-in-induced-coma.html French rocker in induced coma Hallyday underwent surgery in Paris to repair a herniated disc. He suffered complications and was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. It was announced that Hallyday had been put into a medically induced coma in order to repair lesions that had formed as a result of the surgery and to relieve his pain. On 17 December, it was announced that Hallyday and his wife had started legal proceedings against Dr. Stephane Delajoux, who had performed the original surgery. http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory? id=9360871 Article re Hallyday's health problems
fr icon http://www.johnnyhallyday.com/ Official site
fr icon http://www.johnny-legend.fr/ A blog about Johnny Hallyday
http://www.rfimusique.com/siteen/biographie/biographie_6309.asp Biography of Johnny Hallyday, from Radio France Internationale
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