David Hallyday

David Hallyday

David Hallyday (born August 14, 1966 in Boulogne-Billancourt ; real name David Michael Benjamin Smet ) is a French songwriter , musician and racing car driver .

Career

David Hallyday is the son of Johnny Hallyday (Jean-Philippe Smet) and Sylvie Vartan . Because of his father's great popularity, he was only called David Hallyday from birth in France, regardless of the fact that his last name is Smet. Only in motorsport do the organizers sometimes use him under his real name.

David Hallyday grew up with his mother in Los Angeles after his parents separated . At the age of six he gave his mother his first self-written song for her birthday. In addition, he developed an early interest in playing drums and always watched his father's drummer Tommy Brown at concerts, from whom he copied a lot. At home he played Led Zeppelin and other bands from the 1970s on his own drums .

David Hallyday began his music career with a few songs that he wrote for two films. During conversations about the music in He's my girl , he was asked if he would be interested in auditioning for a role and was given one of the two main roles in the film. After the film, he released his first own album, True Cool , and two years later the second in a similar musical style. In the 1990s, his music changed. In 1994 he brought out an album with his group Blind Fish, in 1997 with his group Novacaine the album of the same name, which is much more rocking than its predecessors.

Private changes in David Hallyday's life affected his music. In 1999 his first French-language album was released with Un paradis / Un enfer . At the same time, his father released the album Sang pour sang , for which David wrote and co-produced the entire music. The album earned Johnny Diamant and there were tons of awards for both father and son. This was followed by the album Révélation with a slightly more electronic emphasis in the music, and with Satellite, his most rocking French-language album to date. The David Hallyday album is his most personal to date and has a strong acoustic note. He plays most of the instruments on this album himself. He often takes part in the annual Les Enfoirés charity concert , the largest media event in the Francophone world.

In addition to music, his passion is sport. Hallyday has been involved in motorsport for years and has competed in various European racing series, including the FFSA, Le Mans Series (LMS), FIA-GT and BTCS.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		FR	BE W	CH
1999	Un paradis / Un enfer	FR9 platinum (54 weeks)FR	BE W7 (39 weeks) BE W	-
2002	Révélation	FR9 (21 weeks) FR	-	CH44 (8 weeks) CH
2004	Satellite	FR14 (28 weeks) FR	BE W44 (8 weeks) BE W	CH41 (5 weeks) CH
2007	David Hallyday	FR25 (12 weeks) FR	BE W32 (11 weeks) BE W	-
2010	Un nouveau monde	FR9 gold (32 weeks)FR	BE W18 (9 weeks) BE W	CH63 (2 weeks) CH
2016	Le temps d'une vie	FR71 (3 weeks) FR	BE W132 (7 weeks) BE W	-
2018	J'ai quelque chose à vous dire	FR5 platinum (31 weeks)FR	BE W7 (23 weeks) BE W	CH14 (6 weeks) CH

More albums

• 1988: True Cool (FR:× 2Double gold )
• 1989: Your Power of Love
• 1990: Rock 'n' Heart (FR:× 2Double gold )
• 1992: On the Road
• 1992: On the Road - Live Double Drée
• 1994: 2000 Bbf (Blind Fish feat.David Hallyday)
• 1997: Novacaine (with Novacaine)
• 1998: Master Series (Compilation)
• 2015: Alive (Mission Control)

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		FR	BE W	CH	US
1987	He's My Girl True Cool	FR8th silver (18 weeks)FR	-	-	US79 (6 weeks) US
1988	High true cool	FR1 (23 weeks) FR	-	-	-
1989	Wanna Take My Time True Cool	FR11 (11 weeks) FR	-	-	-
	Listening (Remix) True Cool	FR11 (14 weeks) FR	-	-	-
1990	Tears of The Earth Rock'n'Heart	FR6th silver (17 weeks)FR	-	-	-
1991	About You Rock'n'Heart	FR10 (17 weeks) FR	-	-	-
	Ooh La La Rock'n'Heart	FR28 (16 weeks) FR	-	-	US51 (10 weeks) US
	Change of Heart Rock'n'Heart	FR21 (8 weeks) FR	-	-	-
1992	Hold on blue eyes on the road	FR34 (6 weeks) FR	-	-	-
1999	Tu ne m'as pas laissé le temps Un paradis / Un enfer	FR1 diamond (30 weeks)FR	BE W2 (26 weeks) BE W	-	-
	Pour toi Un paradis / Un enfer	FR33 (19 weeks) FR	BE W32 (10 weeks) BE W	-	-
2000	Ange étrange Un paradis / Un enfer	FR36 (12 weeks) FR	-	-	-
2002	Repenses-y si tu veux révélation	FR36 (16 weeks) FR	-	-	-
	Un homme libre révélation	FR35 (13 weeks) FR	-	CH68 (5 weeks) CH	-
2004	Le défi Satellite	FR14 (17 weeks) FR	BE W34 (2 weeks) BE W	-	-
2005	Satellite / Le défi Satellite	FR45 (8 weeks) FR	-	-	-
2010	On se fait peur Un nouveau monde	-	BE W18 (13 weeks) BE W	-	-	with Laura Smet

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

More singles

• 1988: Move
• 2015: The Rising (Mission Control)
• 2016: Comme avant

Gesture contributions

• 1993: Pain and Pride (Blind Fish feat.David Hallyday)
• 1994: Natural Child (Blind Fish feat. David Hallyday)

Filmography

Feature films

• The Hunger Games - Mockingjay Part 2 (2015), short appearance as guardian
• Grosse fatigue (1994), brief appearance as himself with his first wife Estelle Lefébure
• He's my girl (1987), Bryan Peters

synchronization

• La Planète au Trésor (2002, German title: Der Schatzplanet ), Jim Hawkins

Les Enfoirés

• Les Enfoirés font leur cinéma (2009)
• Les secrets des Enfoirés (2008)
• La caravane des Enfoirés (2007)
• La foire aux enfoirés (2003)
• Tous dans le même bateau (2002)
• 2001: L'odyssée des Enfoirés (2001)
• Enfoirés en 2000 (2000)
• Dernière édition avant l'an 2000 (1999)

Motorsport statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2002	Auto Palace	Ferrari 360 Modena GT	Ryō Fukuda	Guillaume Gomez	failure	Electrics
2003	Courage Compétition	Courage C65	Philippe Alliot	Carl Rosenblad	failure	Valve damage
2007	PSI Experience	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Philipp Peter	Claude-Yves Gosselin	Rank 28
2008	Larbre Compétition	Saleen S7-R	Christophe Bouchut	Patrick Bornhauser	Rank 28
2011	Team Oreca Matmut	Oreca 03	Alexandre Prémat	Dominik Kraihamer	failure	accident
2014	IMSA Performance Matmut	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	Raymond Narac	Nicolas Armindo	Rank 31st

swell

1. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: FR BEW CH US
2. ↑ Awards for music sales: FR FR2

Web links

Commons : David Hallyday  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• David Hallyday in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• David Hallyday at Discogs (English)
• Official Homepage (French)
• David Hallyday - unofficial