Back to his career
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 does not enjoy 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 Car park by Jacques Demy (1985), Daniel Levi took part in his first musical in 1991. He played the roles of Frédéric Chopin and Alfred de Musset in the show Sand and the Romantics, written by Catherine Lara and Luc Plamondon. In 1993, he recorded This blue dream, cartoon song Aladdin from Disney. This duet with the singer Karine Costa, which makes him better known, will mark a generation.
In 2000, Daniel Lévi knows the consecration with the role of Moses in the musical comedy of Elie Chouraqui and Pascal Obispo The ten Commandmentsand its flagship song The desire to love. 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 stopping the Ten Commandments, Daniel Lévi resumes his solo career and his compositions tinged with jazz, soul music, and French variety. In total, he released six solo albums.
“Daniel Lévi was a singular, powerful voice. Fights too: climate, caregivers, fight against racism, support for Lebanon, he never hesitated to commit himself to making the world a little better. My deepest condolences to his family and loved ones“, reacted the Minister of Culture Rima Abdul Malak on Twitter.